Dr Cindy Schneider
Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BS (Delaware), GrDip (UNE), MA (Oregon), PhD (UNE)
Contact
| Email: | Cindy.Schneider@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 176 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2483 (or +61 2 6773 2483 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Cindy Schneider has a background in language description and documentation, specializing in Austronesian and Papuan languages. She has written a grammar of Apma (Vanuatu), and is currently researching Kairak (Papua New Guinea). Cindy also incorporates applied linguistics and sociolinguistics into her fieldwork. For example, in PNG, she is studying the language teaching and literacy practices of local Kairak schools, and how individuals and institutions negotiate social meaning through the choices they make in speaking and writing. In Vanuatu, she is studying dialectal variation and shift.
Cindy is also an experienced teacher of English as a Second/Foreign language, having taught ESL/EFL at the tertiary level in the USA, Mexico, and Australia from 1996 to 2007. Also, through the Australian government’s Adult Migrant English Program she instructed new adult migrants in functional English and basic literacy from 2002 to 2006, in addition to adult literacy for native English speakers.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Morphology and Syntax
- The English Language
- Language and the Law
- Sociolinguistics and Language Ecology
Research Projects Supervised
- “The Kam Meuang language of Northern Thailand” (PhD)
- “A comparative study of the cultural relevance of prompts in teaching EFL to young Korean learners” (Honours)
- “Towards a grammar of the Usen dialect of the Barok language, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea” (PhD)
- “Language Use by Women with Power” (Honours)
Refereed Publications
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2011. Na Passive and na- Associative in Abma: Shared Properties; Shared Origin? Oceanic Linguistics 50:2, 381-399.
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2011. Why field linguists should pay more attention to research in applied linguistics. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 31 (2), 187-209.
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2010. Language learning and literacy development in the field. In Yvonne Treis and Rik De Busser (eds.), Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.http://www.als.asn.au
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2010. A Grammar of Abma, a Language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2009. Information structure in Abma. Oceanic Linguistics 48(1), 1-35.
- Schneider, Cynthia. 2008. The partitive marker in Abma. Anthropological Linguistics 50(2), 148-173.
- Schneider, Cindy. 2007. Verb serialisation and incipient grammaticalisation in Abma. In Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds). Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 221-235.
Non-Refereed Publications
- Schneider, Cindy. 2001. Linguist List book review of Crawford (2000) At War with Diversity: US Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety. [See .]
- Schneider, Cynthia. 1998. “Property Concept Terms in Maasai”. MA thesis, University of Oregon.
Community Literacy Materials
- 2011. “Apma Vowels and Consonants” (Laminated posters for use by local schools)
- 2008. "An Apma-English Dictionary" (With contributions from Andrew Gray and Catriona Hyslop Malau)
- 2008. "Topnan Vini Nada" [Stories of Our Place] (Compilation of 10 Ampa stories, with translations into English)
Literacy Development Workshops
- "2nd Kairak Writing Workshop”, Malabonga Elementary School, East New Britain Province, PNG, 19th September 2011.
- “Kairak Writing Workshop”, Malabonga Elementary School, East New Britain Province, PNG, 30th June – 1st July 2008.
- “Making Dictionaries” (two workshops), Open Day for high school students, University of Oregon, April 1998.
- “Dictionary Making and the Maasai-English Dictionary Project”, Public Information Session, Daystar University, Kenya, November 1997.