The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

Our final annual report is now available

Congratulations to CoEDL alumna Denise Angelo on winning the Penny McKay award for the most outstanding thesis submitted at an Australian university in the preceding academic year on aspects of school-based second/additional language education in Australia. The Award is jointly offered by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) and the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ).

"It is time for farewell. Thanks to you all for your inspiration, commitment, hard work and friendship over CoEDL’s lifetime. It has been an immense privilege to be CoEDL’s Director and to learn from and get to know you all. I look forward to continuing to work with you, on many of the challenges we have been addressing, in another guise."
Nick Evans
CoEDL Director

Join Dr Sacha Beniamine on 14 Dec at 11am for “A Computational Typology of Morphological Exponence” in the Coombs Building at ANU. For more information, contact CoEDL postdoc M Carroll via email.

Scan the code to learn about CoEDL corpus collection efforts, a critical research priority for the Centre and central to our Archiving Program. https://bit.ly/3WU2EJv

We supported nascent research by providing seed funding to over 80 projects. Discover more about these projects by scanning the QR code. https://bit.ly/3O58MdN

CoEDL Outreach brought our work to the public, generated greater interest in the language sciences, and translated research into improvements in areas like policy, health and education. Read more about these efforts on the new Legacy website. https://bit.ly/3X33S4X

Efforts to support the repatriation and preservation of heritage language materials were central to CoEDL’s work to redefine how language science research is done. Read more about how we did this; scan or visit https://bit.ly/3O5toSY

We nurtured over 240 undergraduate, masters and doctoral students, including at least 35 Indigenous students, providing insight into what language science research is all about. Read more on the Legacy Website. https://bit.ly/3XaERoK

CoEDL offered learning opportunities as widely as possible to a range of academic, professional and community groups. Scan the QR code to explore some of our teaching and education activities. https://bit.ly/3OaZz3B

The Sydney Speaks project seeks to better understand the linguistic and social nature of changes to Australian English. It was a major project within CoEDL and you can learn more about it on our Legacy Website! Scan now or visit https://bit.ly/3GebbAX

For many CoEDL members engaged in the documentation and description of language, fieldwork was an essential aspect of their research. Scan the QR code to read about some of their experiences. https://bit.ly/3AcvwCJ