Dr Samantha Disbray
Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56896

Book Chapters
Disbray, Samantha and Wigglesworth, Gillian (2018). Indigenous Children’s Language Practices in Australia. The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities. (pp. 357-381) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54066-9_14
Disbray, Samantha (2017). Policy and Practice Now. History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs and Policies. (pp. 237-246) Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2078-0_19
Guenther, John, Disbray, Samantha, Benveniste, Tessa and Osborne, Sam (2017). ‘Red Dirt’ Schools and Pathways into Higher Education. Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education. (pp. 251-270) Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-4062-7_15
Devlin, Brian, Disbray, Samantha and Devlin, Nancy (2017). A Thematic History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory. History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs and Policies. (pp. 1-10) Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2078-0_1
Disbray, Samantha and Devlin, Brian (2017). Consolidation, Power Through Leadership and Pedagogy, and the Rise of Accountability, 1980–1998. History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs and Policies. (pp. 101-112) Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2078-0_9
Disbray, Samantha and Martin, Barbara (2017). Curriculum as Knowledge System: The Warlpiri Theme Cycle. Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth. (pp. 23-48) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_2
Disbray, Samantha (2014). Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools. Studies in Language Companion Series. (pp. 25-46) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/slcs.147.03dis
Journal Articles
Disbray, Samantha (2020). Talking north: the journey of Australia's first Asian language. Asian Studies Review, 44 (3), 563-565. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2020.1775064
Meakins, Felicity, Disbray, Samantha and Simpson, Jane (2020). Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms. Morphology, 30 (4), 373-393. doi: 10.1007/s11525-020-09357-3
Disbray, Samantha, Plummer, Rosemary and Martin, Barbara (2020). Languages ideologies and practice from the land and the classroom. Modern Language Journal, 104 (2), 519-525. doi: 10.1111/modl.12658
Disbray, Samantha, O’Shannessy, Carmel, MacDonald, Gretel and Martin, Barbara (2020). Talking together: how language documentation and teaching practice support oral language development in bilingual education programs. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1767535
Osborne, Samuel, Rigney, Lester-Irabinna, Benveniste, Tessa, Guenther, John and Disbray, Samantha (2018). Mapping boarding school opportunities for Aboriginal students from the Central Land Council Region of Northern Territory. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 48 (2), 162-178. doi: 10.1017/jie.2018.1
Disbray, Samantha (2016). The development of reference realization and narrative in an Australian contact language, Wumpurrarni English. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00043
Disbray, Samantha (2015). Spaces for learning: policy and practice for indigenous languages in a remote context. Language and Education, 30 (4), 317-336. doi: 10.1080/09500782.2015.1114629
Guenther, John, Disbray, Samantha and Osborne, Sam (2015). Building on ‘red dirt’ perspectives: what counts as important for remote education?. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 44 (2), 194-206. doi: 10.1017/jie.2015.20
Vaughan, Jill, Wigglesworth, Gillian, Loakes, Deborah, Disbray, Samantha and Moses, Karin (2015). Child-caregiver interaction in two remote Indigenous Australian communities. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (APR) 514. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00514
Disbray, Samantha (2014). Review of Eades, D. (2013) Aboriginal ways of using English. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 37 (3), 276-279. doi: 10.1075/aral.37.3.06dis
Disbray, Samantha and Loakes, Deborah (2013). Writing Aboriginal English and Creoles: five case studies in Australian education contexts. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 36 (3), 285-301. doi: 10.1075/aral.36.3.04dis