Tim McNamara

LANGUAGE AS SYMBOLIC POWER

Lucy Davidson, Cathie Elder, Jason Fan, Kellie Frost, Barbara Kelly, Tim McNamara, Janne Morton, Stephen Price, Neomy Storch, Celia Thompson, Xiaofang Yao, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway

Journal article  |  2021  |  Applied Linguistics

Three Rothkos

Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS

What makes the work of the American Abstract Expressionist, Mark Rothko, great? Critics and the galleries of the world which hold ..

Language testing within policy contexts: Conceptual and instrumental challenges

Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2021  |  PAPERS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

The establishment in 1990 of what came to be known as the Language Testing Research Centre (LTRC) at the University of Melbourne w..

'I will go to my grave fighting for grammar': Exploring the ability of language-trained raters to implement a professionally-relevant rating scale for writing

Ute Knoch, Barbara Ying Zhang, Catherine Elder, Eleanor Flynn, Annemiek Huisman, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Elizabeth Manias, Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2020  |  ASSESSING WRITING

Researchers have recommended involving domain experts in the design of scoring rubrics of language for specific purpose tests by e..

Capturing domain expert perspectives in devising a rating scale for a health specific writing test: How close can we get?

Ute Knoch, Catherine Elder, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Elizabeth Manias, Eleanor Flynn, Tim McNamara, Annemiek Huisman, Barbara Ying Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  ASSESSING WRITING

The importance of input from occupational experts in defining valid criteria to assess performance on English for specific purpose..

The Anti-Shibboleth: The Traumatic Character of the Shibboleth as Silence

Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2020  |  APPLIED LINGUISTICS

This article discusses the familiar notion of the shibboleth in situations of exclusion, focusing on the non-use, rather than the ..

Language and Trauma: An Introduction

Brigitta Busch, Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2020  |  Applied Linguistics

This paper introduces the conceptual framing of studies of trauma. It considers how, on the one hand, applied linguistics may cont..

What Counts in Second Language Oral Communication Ability? The Perspective of Linguistic Laypersons

Takanori Sato, Tim McNamara

Journal article  |  2019  |  APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Applied linguists have developed complex theories of the ability to communicate in a second language (L2). However, the perspectiv..

The impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children and teaching staff in remote Australian Indigenous communities

S Macqueen, U Knoch, G Wigglesworth, R Nordlinger, R Singer, T McNamara, R Brickle

Journal article  |  2019  |  Language Testing

All educational testing is intended to have consequences, which are assumed to be beneficial, but tests may also have unintended, ..

Language and Subjectivity

Tim McNamara

Book  |  2019

Understanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments in social theor..