Dr Paul Black

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Dr Paul Black is a researcher in the School of Education at Charles Darwin. He was educated as a linguist in the US in the 1960s and 70s, completing a comparative study of the Lowland East Cushitic languages of the Horn of Africa for his doctorate in 1974. He then came to Australia on a research fellowship to puruse research on indigenous languages in North Queensland. After a temporary visit in 1981, in 1982 he took a position with the School of Australian Linguistics program for the education of indigenous literacy workers and interpreters. In 1990 he joined the applied linguistics program of the then Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University, where he has specialised in linguistics, language acquisition, and language teaching pedagogy.