CDU Researcher Profile

• address: CAESL, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 0909
• phone: +61-8-8946 7761
• fax: +61-8-8946 7144
• email: paul.black@cdu.edu.au

Paul was educated as a linguist in the US in the 1960s and 70s, completing a comparative study of the Lowland East Cushitic languages of the Horn of Africa for his doctorate in 1974. He then came to Australia on a research fellowship to puruse research on indigenous languages in North Queensland. After a temporary visit in 1981, in 1982 he took a position with the School of Australian Linguistics program for the education of indigenous literacy workers and interpreters. In 1990 he joined the applied linguistics program of the then Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University, where he has specialised in linguistics, language acquisition, and language teaching pedagogy. In 1991-93 he also spent two years as a visiting lecturer in English at Waseda University in Tokyo, a position he returned to for another year in 2003-2004.

• Australian language prehistory
  
• Culture and identity in education
• Indigenous language education and maintenance

• Bennett, Jeannie, Historical perspectives in NT education, PhD research.
• Caffery, Josephine, Linguistics in indigenous adult education and its effects on endangered languages. PhD research.
• Kawano, Mikiko, What can teachers do to motivate students, DocTeach research.
• Nakahara, Masumi, Becoming an intercultural teacher of Japanese. DocTeach research.
• Smith, Karla, The Iranun in Sabah, Malaysia: Language and decisions. PhD research.
• Toraman. Amber, The effect of teacher feedback on grammar and errors in L2 student writing, PhD research.

• Etherington, Paul Anthony (2002). Nggem morphology and syntax. MAppLing(Hon) thesis.
• Etherington, Steven J. (2006). Learning to be Kunwinjku: Kunwinjku people discuss their pedagogy. PhD thesis.
• Goebel, Zane (2000). Communicative competence in Indonesian: Language choice in inter-ethnic interactions in Semarang. PhD thesis
• Gravelle, Gilles G. (2001). Meyah morphology and syntax. MAppLing(Hon) thesis.
• Milne, Christopher (1998). Defining the 'good' English teacher: Japanese ELICOS students' perceptions. MEd(Hon) thesis.
• Wang, Li (2002). Teaching Chinese culture to adult learners in Australia. DocTeach thesis.
• Widin, Jacquiline (2005). The internationalisation of education: Project implementation and stakeholder interests, PhD thesis.

• Black, P. (2007). Lexicostatistics with massive borrowing: The case of Jingulu and Mudburra, Australian Journal of Linguistics vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 63-71.
• Black, P. (2007). Nganyaywana revisited: Lessons from Terry Crowley’s work on New England languages. In: J. Siegel, J. Lynch & D. Eades (eds), Language description, history and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 255-265.
• Kawano, M. & P. Black. (2007). Issues in recreational language classes, Babel vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 30-32, 38.
• Nakahara, M. & P. Black. (2007). How I survived as an overseas teacher of Japanese in Australia, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 6.1-6.17, electronic document found at <http:// publications. epress. monash. edu/ doi/ pdf/ 10.2104/ aral0706>
• Black, P. (2006). Equilibrium theory applied to Top End Australian languages. In: K. Allen (ed.), Selected papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, electronic document found at <http:// www. arts. monash. edu. au/ ling/ als/ assests/ black-equilibrium. pdf>.
• Black, P. and Nakahara, M. (2006). Japanese signs as a learning resource?, Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, vol. 3, suppl. 1, pp. 6-21, electronic document found at <http:// e-flt. nus. edu. sg/ v3sp2006/ black. htm> and at <http:// e-flt. nus. edu. sg/ v3sp2006/ black. pdf>.
• Black, P. (2005). Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk. In: Fortesque, M., Skafte, E.J., Mogensen, J.E. and Schøsler, L. (eds). Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp 21-29.
• Black, P. (2004). The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula. In: Bowern, C. and Koch, H. (eds). Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp 241-67.
• Black, P. (2004). What is communicative competence? In: Conlan, C. (ed.). Teaching English language in Australia: Theoretical perspectives and practical issues. API Network, Perth, pp 33-47.
• Black, P. and Goebel, Z. (2002). Multiliteracies and the Teaching of Indonesian. Babel 37 (1), pp 22-6, 38.
• Black, P. and Breen, G. (2001). The School of Australian Linguistics. In: Simpson, J., Nash, D., Laughren, M., Austin, P. & Alpher, B. (eds). Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, pp 161-78.
• Black, P. and Goebel, Z. (2001). A student-centered multimedia exploration of code choice in Indonesia. In: White, J. (ed.), FLEAT IV: The Fourth Conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology July 28 to August 1, 2000: Proceedings. Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, n.p.: pp 633-638.
• Black, P. (1997). Lexicostatistics and Australian languages: Problems and prospects. In: Tryon, D. and Walsh, M. (eds). Boundary rider: Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Pacific Linguistics, ser. C, no. 136, pp 51-69.
• Black, P. (1995). The dance of language: Some practical linguistic approaches. Centre for Studies of Language in Education, Northern Territory University, Darwin.
• Black, P. (1993). New uses for old languages. In: Walsh, M. and Yallop, C. (eds). Language in Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp 207-223.
• Dyen, I., Kruskal, J.B. and Black, P. (1992). An Indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82 (5).
• Black, P. (1990). Some competing goals in Aboriginal language planning. In: Baldauf, R.B. Jr., and Luke, A. (eds). Language planning and education in Australasia and the South Pacific. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp 80-88.