Sally Dixon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sally Dixon is involved.
Articles
2024 Alyawarr English: A new contact language of Central Australia Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 149–186 | Article
This paper explores Alyawarr English, a new contact language spoken in Ipmangker, a remote Alyawarr community of Central Australia. Focusing on language use by children and drawing on a corpus of 50+ hrs of naturalistic video recordings, several aspects of Alyawarr English are examined in detail. read more
2014 Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland schools Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia, Piller, Ingrid (ed.), pp. 213–233 | Article
As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in school system data. A proliferation of inaccurate,… read more
2013 Educational failure or success: Aboriginal children’s non-standard English utterances Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom, Wigglesworth, Gillian (ed.), pp. 302–315 | Article
Within the Australian education system, Aboriginal students’ use of non-standard English features is often viewed simplistically as evidence of non-attainment of literacy and oral-English milestones. One reason for this is the widespread use of assessment tools which fail to differentiate between… read more