Dr Sandra Kipp
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 5197
Email: sjkipp@ unimelb.edu.au
Biography
Sandra Kipp completed her undergraduate training in languages and linguistics at Monash University, majoring in German (linguistics) and Indonesian. Her Honours thesis (German) was a study of the language of the formerly German settlement of Waldau (Doncaster) in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs. After completing a Diploma of Education at La Trobe University (Modern Languages, ESL) and teaching both German and ESL for a number of years, she returned to Monash to complete an MA within the German Department in 1981, this time comparing language maintenance in the 'old German' settlements of the Wimmera, the Western District and outer Melbourne. Since 1981 Sandra has worked extensively in the area of language demography and language maintenance/shift, working with Michael Clyne to publish articles and monographs based on the 1991 and 1996 Censuses, as well as a number of more in-depth studies of particular community language groups in Melbourne. Sandra has also taught Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism at Monash and has been involved in a number of research areas other than language demography, including the transition from primary to secondary LOTE programs. She came to Melbourne at the beginning of 2001, and is currently working with Michael Clyne on his large ARC grant: Dynamics of Language Contact. She is in the process of completing a Ph.D on bilingualism as it relates to social networks and individual variation in Tarrington (formerly Hochkirch), a nineteenth century German Sprachinsel near Hamilton, in Victoria's Western District.
Selected Publications
Kipp, S. 1986, Student Reaction. In: Clyne, M. (ed) An Early Start: Second Languages at Primary School, River Seine, Melbourne, 99-111.
Kipp, S, M. Clyne and A. Pauwels 1995, Immigration and Australia's Language Resources, AGPS, Canberra.
Clyne, M. and S. Kipp 1996, Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Australia, 1991, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 19,1,1-19.
Kipp, S. 1996, How will learning French help me to get a job in Japan? Australian Language Matters Vol 4, No 3, 16.
Clyne, M. and S. Kipp 1997, Trends and Changes in Home Language Use and Shift in Australia, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 18, 451-73.
Clyne, M. and S. Kipp 1998, Language concentrations in metropolitan areas, People and Place Vol. 6, No. 2, 50-60.
Kipp, S. and M. Clyne 1998, Our own 'Asian Trade Languages', Australian Language Matters Vol 6, No 2, 3-4.
Kipp S. and M. Clyne 1998, Three Important Languages that should not be neglected by the Education Systems, Australian Language Matters Vol 6, No 3, 5-6.
Kipp, S. and M. Clyne 1998, What's happening to Italian, Greek and German as Community Languages? Australian Language Matters Vol 6, No 4, 11-12.
Clyne, Michael and Sandra Kipp 1999. Pluricentric Languages in an Immigrant Context. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin.
Kipp, S. 1999. Networks and language use in an historical context, Monash University Linguistics Papers Vol 2, No 1 1999, 25-32.