International Pragmatics Association
International Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Australian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

BA (University of Melbourne), MA (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), PhD (Monash University)

Early language and literacy development; research methods.

Current research interests include communicative competence in early childhood, peer interaction, developmental pragmatics, and ethnomethodology in early childhood. Research proposals from students wanting to work in the area of young children’s language in use are most welcome.

BOOKS

Church, A. (2009) Preference organisation and peer disputes: How young children resolve conflict. Aldershot: Ashgate.


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Bateman, A. and Church, A. (2009) Prosocial behaviour in preschool: The state of play. British Journal of Educational and Child Psychology, 25 (2), 19-28.

Church, A. (2007) Conversation analysis in early childhood research. Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 14 (2), 1-10.

Church, A. (2004) Preference Revisited. RASK: International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 21, 111 - 129.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Church, A. (2009) Closings in children’s disputes. In N. Thomas (ed.) Children, Politics and Communication: Participation at the margins. Bristol: Policy Press.


CONFERENCE PAPERS

Church, A. (2008) Commenting on cognition. Paper presented at the Australian Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, January, Melbourne.

Church, A. (2007) Threats in children’s disputes: Learning conditionality? Paper presented at the International Pragmatics Association Conference, July, Göteborg.

Church, A. (2007) Closings in children’s disputes. Paper presented at the British Association for Applied Linguistics/Cambridge University Press Seminar, June, Birkbeck, University of London.

Church, A. (2006) Turn shapes and dispute outcomes: Preference or markedness in young children’s
talk-in-interaction. Paper presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis. May, Helsinki.

Church, A. (2006) Conversation analysis in early childhood contexts. Paper presented at the Australian Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, January, Melbourne.

Church, A. (2005) “Use your words”: How children resolve disputes with peers. Paper presented at the Australian Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, January, Melbourne.

Church, A. (2004) On second pair part preferences in conversation analysis. Paper presented at Public Seminar, May, Monash University.

Church, A. (2003) Preference organisation in children’s arguments. Paper presented at International Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, June, Manchester Metropolitan University.

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