Samantha Disbray

List of John Benjamins publications for which Samantha Disbray plays a role.

Journal

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL)

Edited by Peter Crosthwaite

ISSN 0155-0640 | E-ISSN 1833-7139

Articles

Disbray, Samantha 2014 Review of Eades, D. (2013) Aboriginal Ways of Using English Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia, Piller, Ingrid (ed.), pp. 276–279 | Review

Disbray, Samantha 2014 Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 25–46 | Article

The Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory was established in 1973 to deliver an effective education to students in remote Indigenous schools. In 2008, the NT Government closed the Program, citing low student achievement in English literacy as its rationale. This chapter evaluates… read more

Disbray, Samantha and Debbie Loakes 2013 Writing Aboriginal English & Creoles: Five case studies in Australian education contexts Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom, Wigglesworth, Gillian (ed.), pp. 285–301 | Article

Texts in Aboriginal English (AE) and creole varieties have been created by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers for a range of purposes. In this paper, we focus on materials created in and for five educational contexts, and investigate the orthographic or spelling systems developed in each… read more