About the Author

Samantha Disbray completed her undergraduate studies in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Adelaide and graduated with an Honors degree in Linguistics in 1997. She is enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, and is investigating adult and peer language input to children in Tennant Creek, particularly narrative discourse. Samantha has worked for the Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and for the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD), training Indigenous Language Workers in English and vernacular literacy and language research.