Dr Arvind Iyengar
Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Phone: +61 2 6773 4241
Email: arvind.iyengar@une.edu.au
Biography
In addition, for several years now, Arvind has been documenting his native language, the Hebbar Iyengar variety of Tamil, and is involved in community efforts to create pedagogical material in the language for popular use and reference.
In 2022, Arvind will be coordinating LING381/LING581 ‘Writing Systems of the World’, a brand new unit focusing on grapholinguistics and the first of its kind at any Australian university.
For a full CV, including latest awards, grants, collaborations, scholarly publications, non-traditional research outputs, and teaching and supervision experience, please visit cv.arvindiyengar.com.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) (University of Pune),
Masters of Applied Linguistics with Honours (UNE)
Doctor of Philosophy (UNE)
Teaching Areas
LING353/LING553 The English Language
LING365/LING565 Phonetics and Phonology
LING369/LING569 Morphology and Syntax
LING450/LING550 The Design of Language
LING451/LING551 Issues in Applied Linguistics
LING150/LING350 Communicating in Culturally Diverse Contexts
Research Supervision Experience
Arvind is available for Higher Degree Research supervision in the areas listed below (not exhaustive):
Supervision Areas
- descriptive (graphemic and graphetic) and sociolinguistic (historical and contemporary) analyses of orthographies, scripts and writing systems
- the phonemic-graphemic interface
- diglossia/digraphia and domain complementarity in language and script use
- literacy practices and acquisition in multilingual settings
- documentation and description of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages and dialects.