Curtin University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Curtin University*

Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners. Special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024)

EditorToni Dobinson, Julian Chen & Carly Steele

Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 47:3] 2025. v, 165 pp. | special issue

Multilingualism and Mobility in the Twenty-First Century: New Trajectories and Possibilities in Migration Linguistics. Special issue of AILA Review 37:1 (2024)

EditorAriane Macalinga Borlongan & Lisa Lim

Subjects Applied linguistics

[AILA Review, 37:1] 2024. vi, 176 pp. | special issue

Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific: Special issue of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019)

Edited by Vahid Parvaresh & Grace Zhang

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29:1] 2019. | special issue

Request Strategies: A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

Yong-Ju Rue & Grace Zhang

Subjects Discourse studies | Linguistics of isolated languages | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp. | monograph

The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia

Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong & Helen Kirkpatrick

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 12] 1995. | yearbook

Oliver, Rhonda & Sender Dovchin 2026 Social media

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 103–122

Larsen, Brenda, Britta Biedermann, Karen Wylie, Matthew Cirocco & Robyn Heckenberg 2026 Co-designing Noongar language and speech sound materials: Embracing a culturally responsive approach in speech pathology and education

Keywords: speech pathology | Dabakarn-dabakarn | Yindyamarra | cultural responsiveness | Indigenous language knowledge | Indigenous cultural knowledge | Noongar language | student collaboration | Noongar speech sounds | language materials/resources

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 27 pp. | article

Oliver, Rhonda 2025 Tasks for diverse learners in diverse contexts* : A case study of Australian Aboriginal vocational students

Keywords: authentic tasks | vocational skill learning | second language learning | high school students | First Nation students | Australian Aboriginal students | ethnographic approach | observations | interviews

In: Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, East, Martin (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 17] pp. 236–254

Oliver, Rhonda 2025 A walk through time: From research on to research with children and adolescents

In: Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research, Butler, Yuko Goto & Annamaria Pinter (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 13] pp. 131–148

Ugwuanyi, Kingsley, Christian Mair, Sender Dovchin, Iker Erdocia, Maria Kuteeva & Esther Airemionkhale 2026 Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

Keywords: Generative AI | World Englishes | academic writing and publishing (AWP) | linguistic diversity | English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) | language bias in AI

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 pp. 265–289 | article

Nguyen, Bich 2025 “The best-laid plans of mice and men”: Impacts of an authentic novel on high school EAL students’ creative writing

Keywords: authentic literary texts | Of Mice and Men | English as an additional language (EAL) students | narrative writing | second language acquisition (SLA)

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Oliver, Rhonda & Carly Steele 2025 Applied Linguistics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts (1977–2026)

Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages | language and education | bilingual education | language description | language shift, maintenance and revitalisation | language policy, planning and assessment

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics | Online First Publication, 17 pp. | article

Oakley, Grace, Carly Steele, Christine Robinson, Toni Dobinson, Sender Dovchin & Wendy Cumming-Potvin 2025 Towards a playworld translanguaging approach in early childhood education

Keywords: translanguaging | pedagogical translanguaging | play-based learning | playworlds | preschool | early childhood

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:3 pp. 891–911 | article

Ober, Robyn, Sender Dovchin & Rhonda Oliver 2024 “Where you from, who’s your Mob?”: Ethical considerations when undertaking Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applied linguistic research

In: Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship, De Costa, Peter I., Amr Rabie-Ahmed & Carlo Cinaglia (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 7] pp. 192–209

Ellis, Rod 2024 Conclusion: Some thoughts on investigating individual differences in task-based language teaching

Keywords: a framework for investigating individual differences in TBLT | accommodating individual differences in TBLT | a holistic perspective

In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 346–364

Oliver, Rhonda & Tatiana Bogachenko 2024 Task-based language learning and teaching: Differences according to age

Keywords: age | task-based language teaching | interaction | young learners

In: Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching, Li, Shaofeng (ed.) [Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 16] pp. 262–286

Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko & Robert F. Cavanagh 2024 A Japanese pragmatics of danger: The rise of jishuku ‘self-discipline’ and dōchō-atsuryoku ‘peer-pressure’ as pandemic keywords in Japan

Keywords: jishuku ‘self-discipline’ | dōchō-atsuryoku ‘peer-pressure’ | Japanese culture | pragmatics of danger | the NSM approach | Covid-19 pandemic

In: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] pp. 41–63

Dovchin, Sender 2025 Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics: A double-edged sword

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 410–417 | afterword

Chen, Liping & Craig Lambert 2024 Focus on form in the uptake, stability and transfer of relative clause use across tasks

Keywords: Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) | Focus on Form (FonF) | corrective feedback | relative clauses | Chinese learners of English as a second language

TASK 4:1 pp. 111–133 | article

Moormann, Mareike, Antje Lorenz, Lyndsey Nickels, Neville Hennessey & Britta Biedermann 2025 From ‘jellyfish’ to ‘poisson de gelée’ : Compound production in bilingual aphasia

Keywords: bilingual aphasia | compound processing | compound production | multiple lemma account | language mixing | language mixing errors | language dominance | language proficiency

The Mental Lexicon 19:2 pp. 308–339 | article

Borlongan, Ariane Macalinga & Lisa Lim 2024 Multilingualism and mobility in the twenty-first century: An agenda for migration linguistics

AILA Review 37:1 pp. 1–9 | editorial

Dobinson, Toni, Julian Chen & Carly Steele 2024 Decolonizing or recolonizing?: AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and language learners

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 253–258 | introduction

Lim, Lisa 2024 Defining migrants: Invisibilities, im/mobilities, integration

Keywords: migration linguistics | mobilities | multilingualism | Singapore | Peranakan | Chinese dialects | COVID19 pandemic | public health communication | United Nations Sustainable Development Goals | International Decade of Indigenous Languages

AILA Review 37:1 pp. 10–34 | article | open access

Ellis, Rod 2024 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:1 pp. 1–4 | editorial

Tankosić, Ana, Eldin Milak, Carly Steele & Toni Dobinson 2024 Meeting standards: (Re)colonial and subversive potential of AI modification

Keywords: AI accent generator | Standard language ideology | accent modification | social inequalities | subversion and neoliberalism | technologies of the self

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 366–382 | article

Bogachenko, Tetiana, Rachel Burke, Yi Zhang & Qian Gong 2025 The use of Google Translate for language learning in emergency forced displacement contexts: Ukrainian adult learners of English in Australia

Keywords: Google Translate | artificial intelligence (AI) | decolonizing language learning and teaching | emergency forced displacement

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 pp. 309–339 | article

Ariatna & Rod Ellis 2024 Mentoring task-based language teaching as an innovation in an Indonesian secondary school

Keywords: task-based language teaching | secondary school | innovation | mentoring

Language Teaching for Young Learners 7:1 pp. 1–28 | article | open access

Tseng, Ming-Yu & Grace Zhang 2023 How uncertainty can be turned into shared understanding: Evidence from online medical consultations in Taiwan

Keywords: higher-order stretching | medical discourse | online medical consultation | shared understanding | uncertainty | vague language

In: A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah & Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] pp. 373–394

Su, Heng, Peyman G. P. Sabet & Grace Q. Zhang 2023 Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names

Keywords: given names | personal names | first names | Chinese names | ideological names | socio-onomastics

Pragmatics and Society 15:4 pp. 501–531 | article

Dryden, Stephanie 2022 Phones as a semiotic disadvantage: English as a Foreign language migrants in Australia

Keywords: semiotics | phones | linguistic superiority | paralinguistic insufficiency | EFL migrants | Australia

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 pp. 219–239 | article

Grote, Ellen & Rhonda Oliver 2022 A task-based needs analysis framework for TBLT: Theory, purpose, and application

In: Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of professor Michael H. Long, Benati, Alessandro G. & John W. Schwieter (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] pp. 235–256

Dobinson, Toni 2022 Intimacy in online classrooms: Linguaplay, personal testimonies, and contrived chaotic material ecologies

Keywords: intimacy | online learning | linguaplay | personal testimonies | material ecologies

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:1 p. 78 | article | open access

Shintani, Natsuko & Rod Ellis 2022 The roles of language proficiency and study abroad in Japanese students’ receptive pragmatic competence

Keywords: Japanese university students | pragmatic competence | irony | metapragmatic knowledge | study abroad

Applied Pragmatics 4:1 pp. 1–32 | article

Tang, Kok-Sing 2021 The role of language in scaffolding content & language integration in CLIL science classrooms

Keywords: classroom discourse | Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | role of language | scientific language | scaffolding

In: Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms, Lo, Yuen Yi & Angel M.Y. Lin (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 115] pp. 169–181

Ariatna, & Rod Ellis 2021 A case study of one teacher’s introduction to task-based language teaching: Insights for the development of a professional development programme

Keywords: task-based language teaching | challenges facing teachers | a teacher’s first steps with TBLT | onsite coaching | insights for teacher preparation programmes

Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:1 pp. 137–158 | article

Ellis, Rod 2021 Options in a task-based language-teaching curriculum: An educational perspective

Keywords: general educational curriculum models | four TBLT curricula | evaluating TBLT curricula | options in the design and implementation of TBLT | need for flexibility

TASK 1:1 pp. 11–46 | article

Ellis, Rod 2021 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:1 pp. 1–2 | editorial

Zhang, Grace & Ming-Yu Tseng 2020 Attitudes towards elastic language in Australian online healthcare information

Keywords: elastic language | vague language | healthcare communication | online information | elasticity | framing

Internet Pragmatics 3:1 pp. 34–63 | article

Becker, Anne, Yuko Asano-Cavanagh & Grace Zhang 2020 Cultural adaptations: Translating politeness from Japanese to English

Keywords: Japanese translation | Japanese polite language | translator strategies | pragmatic loss | literature translation | traduction japonaise | langue polie japonaise | stratégies du traducteur | perte pragmatique | traduction littéraire

Babel 66:3 pp. 457–483 | article

Ellis, Rod 2020 Task-based language teaching for beginner-level young learners

Keywords: task-based language teaching | beginner learners | input-based tasks | design and implementation

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:1 p. 4 | article | open access

Chen, Julian ChengChiang 2020 The interplay of avatar identities, self-efficacy, and language practices

Keywords: Second Life | 3D multi-user virtual environments (3D MUVEs) | English as a foreign language (EFL) | avatar identity | self-efficacy

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:1 pp. 65–81 | article

Perera, Nirukshi 2020 “I’m kind of agnostic”: Belief discourse by second-generation migrants in a religious classroom

Keywords: belief | religion | Sri Lankan | Tamil | Hindu temple | migration | translanguaging

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:3 pp. 328–346 | article

Wignell, Peter, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran & Kevin Chai 2020 The Twittering Presidents: An analysis of tweets from @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump

Keywords: multimodal discourse analysis | social media | US politics | Twitter | systemic functional linguistics

Journal of Language and Politics 20:2 pp. 197–225 | article

Tankosić, Ana 2020 Translingual identity: Perpetual foreigner stereotype of the Eastern-European immigrants in Australia

Keywords: translingual identity | perpetual foreigner stereotype | culturally and linguistically different | immigrants | Australia

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:3 pp. 246–271 | article

Larsson, Tove, Shawn Loewen, Rhonda Oliver, Miyuki Sasaki, Nicole Tracy-Ventura & Luke Plonsky 2020 Towards achieving work-life balance in academia: Comments and personal essays from six applied linguists

In: Professional Development in Applied Linguistics: A Guide to Success for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, Plonsky, Luke (ed.)  pp. 49–64

Sabet, Peyman G. P. 2019 Fedriani, Chiara, & Sansò, Andrea (Eds.). 2017. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 pp. 140–147 | book review

Sabet, Peyman G. P. 2019 On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs

Keywords: sort of | kind of | pragmatic particles | discourse particles | vague language | discourse markers

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 pp. 33–61 | article

Oliver, Rhonda & Agurtzane Azkarai 2019 Patterns of interaction and young ESL learners: What is the impact of proficiency and task type?

Keywords: patterns of interaction | ESL | young learners | task-based interaction | proficiency

Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:1 p. 82 | article

Zhang, Grace 2019 The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums: A Chinese perspective

Keywords: ‘sort of’ | ‘kind of’ | elastic language | vague language | vagueness | Chinese

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 pp. 62–85 | article

Gorman, Mary & Rod Ellis 2019 The relative effects of metalinguistic explanation and direct written corrective feedback on children’s grammatical accuracy in new writing

Keywords: children | form-focused instruction | metalinguistic information | written corrective feedback | acquisition

Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:1 pp. 57–81 | article

Tang, Kok-Sing 2019 The role of language in scaffolding content & language integration in CLIL science classrooms

Keywords: classroom discourse | Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | role of language | scientific language | scaffolding

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 pp. 315–328 | article commentary

Parvaresh, Vahid & Grace Zhang 2019 ‘Sort of’ across languages of the Asia and Oceania regions

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 pp. 2–8 | introduction

Ellis, Rod 2019 Editorial

Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:2 pp. 107–110 | editorial

Azkarai, Agurtzane, María del Pilar García Mayo & Rhonda Oliver 2019 The effect of task repetition on the patterns of interaction of ESL children

Keywords: ESL | task repetition | patterns of interaction | young learners

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:1 p. 90 | article

Ellis, Rod 2018 Meta-analysis in second language acquisition research: A critical appraisal

Keywords: SLA | meta-analysis | limitations | narrative accounts

Journal of Second Language Studies 1:2 pp. 231–253 | article

Chu, Thi Le Hoang & Rhonda Oliver 2017 Vietnamese TESOL teachers’ cognitions and practices: Developing learner-centered learning

Keywords: teacher cognition | L2 classrooms | pedagogical practices | educational policy

In: Expanding individual difference research in the interaction approach: Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors, Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura (ed.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 16] pp. 173–199

Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko 2016 Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes

Keywords: Japanese | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) | pain | psychomimes

In: “Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures, Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 84] p. 87

Zhang, Grace 2016 Elastic language in TV discussion discourse: A case study of ba in Chinese

Keywords: ba | particles | TV discussions | modal words | elastic language | Chinese

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:2 pp. 245–269 | article

Zhang, Grace 2016 How elastic a little can be and how much a little can do in Chinese

Keywords: yidian | quantifier | a little | vague language | elasticity | Chinese

Chinese Language and Discourse 7:1 pp. 1–22 | article

Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko 2014 Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes

Keywords: pain | Japanese | psychomimes | Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)

International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 pp. 216–238 | article

Butorac, Donna 2014 ‘Like the fish not in water’: How language and race mediate the social and economic inclusion of women migrants to Australia

Keywords: language learning | migration | gender | identity | language ideology

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:3 pp. 234–248 | article | open access

Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko 2011 An analysis of three Japanese tags: ne, yone, and daroo

Keywords: yone | daroo | semantic primes | tag questions | Natural Semantic Metalanguage

Pragmatics & Cognition 19:3 pp. 448–475 | article

Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko 2010 Semantic analysis of evidential markers in Japanese: Rashii, yooda and sooda

Functions of Language 17:2 pp. 153–180 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 2004 Medieval Chinese rules of writing and their relevance today

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1 pp. 1–14 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy & Denise Mulligan 2002 Cultures of learning: Critical reading in the social and applied sciences

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 pp. 73–99 | article

Reid, Ian & Lesley Parker 2002 Framing institutional policies on literacies

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 pp. 19–27 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1997 Using contrastive rhetoric to teach writing: Seven principles

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 14 p. 89 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1996 'Topic — Comment or Modifier — Modified? Information Structure in Modern Standard Chinese

Studies in Language 20:1 p. 93 | article

Lowe, Richard K. 1996 Pictorial information design for schools

Information Design Journal 8:3 pp. 233–243 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1995 The teaching and learning of the four priority Asian languages

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 12 pp. 17–34 | article

Kirkpatrick, Andy 1994 How do you know what i’m going to say? the use of advance organisers in modern standard Chinese

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 11 pp. 83–96 | article

Lowe, Richard K. 1993 Diagrammatic information: Techniques for exploring its mental repres-entation and processing

Information Design Journal 7:1 p. 3 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.