Professor GREEN, Clarence G.

Australian Postgraduate Award (University of Melbourne)

Publications

• Green, C., Giblin, I., & Mulder, J. (2024). A systematic narrative synthesis review of the effectiveness of genre theory and systemic functional linguistics for improving reading and writing outcomes within K-10 education. The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy.
•  Green, C., Keogh, K., & Prout, J. (2024). The CPB Sight Words: A New Research-based High-Frequency Wordlist for Early Reading Instruction. The Reading Teacher.
• Green, C., & McLachlan, C. (2024). Vocabulary for academic literacy, In E. Rata (Ed.), Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education, Elgar.
• Green, C. (2024) Extensive Reading and Viewing for Vocabulary Growth: Corpus insights. In P. Crosthwaite (Ed). Corpora for Language Learning (pp. 84-92). Routledge.
• Green, C., Keogh, K., Sun, H., & O’Brien, B. (2023). The Children’s Picture Books Lexicon (CPB-Lex): A large-scale lexical database from children’s picture books. Behavior Research Methods, 1-18.
• Steinkrauss, R., Green, C., Verspoor M., & Sun, H. (2023) A Dynamic Usage Based Perspective of Bilingual Children’s VAC Development in English. International Journal of Complexity in Education, 4(1), 9-36.
• Green, C, & McLachlan, C. (in press) Vocabulary Acquisition in Early Education: From Oral Language to Emergent Academic Literacy.E. Rata (Ed) The Research Handbook on Curricula and Education.
• Baghdadli, A., Arcuri, G., Green, C., Gauthier, L., Gagnon, P., & Gagnon, B. (2023). The Fast Cognitive Evaluation (FaCE): a screening tool to detect cognitive impairment in patients with cancer. BMC cancer, 23(1), 1-12.
• Green., C. Pentalich, M., Barrow, M, Weerasinghe, D, Daniels, R. (2023) Receptive Vocabulary Size Estimates for General and Academic Vocabulary at a Multi-campus Australian University. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
• Green. C. (2022) Extensive Reading of General Fiction and Incidentally Building a 9000 word vocabulary: Do Corpus Simulations Suggest it is Possible? Reading in a Foreign Language. (Q1)
• Green C., (2022). Corpora for Teaching Collocations in ESP. In R. Jablonkai & E. Csomay, Routledge Handbook of Corpora and Language Teaching and Learning.
• Green, C. (2022). Computing curriculum time and input for the incidental learning of academic vocabulary. Language Learning and Technology.
• Green., C. (2021) Extensive viewing of children’s entertainment and the potential for incidentally learning early years reading vocabulary: A corpus study. Language and Education.
• Green, C., & Sun, H. (2021). Global estimates of syntactic alignment in adult and child utterances during interaction: NLP estimates based on multiple corpora. Language Sciences, 85, 101353.
• Green, C. (2021). The oral language productive vocabulary profile of children starting school: A resource for teachers. Australian Journal of Education, 65(1), 41-54.
• Green, C. (2020). Extensive reading and viewing as input for academic vocabulary: A large-scale vocabulary profile coverage study of students’ reading and writing across multiple secondary school subjects. Lingua, 239, 102838.
• Green, C. (2019). Enriching the academic wordlist and Secondary Vocabulary Lists with lexicogrammar: Toward a pattern grammar of academic vocabulary. System, 87, 102158.
• Green, C. (2019). A multilevel description of textbook linguistic complexity across disciplines: Leveraging NLP to support disciplinary literacy. Linguistics and Education, 53, 100748.
• Green, C., and Lambert, J. (2019). Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting Disciplinary Literacy through the Secondary Phrase Lists. English for Specific Purposes.
• Green, C., and Lambert, J. (2018). Advancing Disciplinary Literacy through English for Academic Purposes: Discipline-specific Wordlists, Collocations and Word Families for Eight Secondary Subjects. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 35: 105-115.
• Green, C. (2017). Patterns and Development in the English Clause System: A Corpus-based Grammatical Overview. Springer.
• Green, C. (2017). Introducing the Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature: A corpus for Culturomics and Stylistics. Language and Literature, 26(4), 282–299.
• Green, C. (2017). Usage-based Linguistics and the Magic Number four. Cognitive Linguistics, 28(2), 209-237.
• Green, C. (2015). An analysis of the relationship between cohesion and clause combinationinEnglish discourse employing NLP and data mining approaches. Literary andLinguisticsComputing,30(3), 326-343. 
• Green, C. (2014). On the relationship between clause combination, grammatical hierarchy and discourse-pragmatic coherence. Functions of Language, 21(3), 297–332.

Conference Papers

• Green, C., Giblin, I., Mulder, J., (Sept., 2022), Effectiveness of Genre Theory/SFL- based pedagogies on improving reading and writing outcomes in Australia: a Systematic Narrative Synthesis review for f-10 education. British Education Research Association, BERA. Liverpool, UK.
• Green, C. (2021, July). Limited Evidence for Abstract Structural Priming During Language Development and Interaction. PAPER PRESENTED AT the International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Green, C. (2019, August). The Mid-level Constructions of Academic Vocabulary: Towards a Pedagogical Resource. The Lexicogrammar of Academic Vocabulary Lists/LAV Lists). PAPER PRESENTED AT the British Association of Applied Linguistics BAAL 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• Green, C. (2018, July). Subject Area Education Heightens Resting Activation in the Mental Lexicon: A Report on Three Psycholinguistic Experiments into Disciplinary Literacy. PAPER PRESENTED AT the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, Canada.
• Green, C. & Lambert, J. (2018, June). Discipline-specific Corpora and the Development of Disciplinary Literacy. PAPER PRESENTED AT the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Tampere, Finland.
• Green, C. (2017, July). Working Memory, Usage-based Linguistics and the Magic Number Four. PAPER PRESENTED AT 14^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-14)., Tartu, Estonia
• Green, C. (2016, September). Quantitative Historical Drift in English Clause Combination. PAPER PRESENTED AT American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2016 Conference, Ames, Iowa, United States.

Keynotes/Invited Talks/Consultancies

• Green, C. (2023, June 10). KEYNOTE. Corpus Linguistics as Data Science: Cross-fertilization and potential. First Conference on Corpora and the Humanities, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications. Shanghai International Studies University. Shanghai, China.
• Green, C. (2022, November 7). Topic Modelling in R. Workshop for the Office of Education Research, Singapore, NTU. (Online) (Consultancy).
• Green, C. (2022, October 7). Cohesion and Coherence in Text. Monash University Twilight Sessions for English Language Teachers, (Online).
• Green, C. (2022, May 2). Language acquisition in school age children (5-12): Typical development patterns. Workshop for approx. 150 Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologist. NGO, Noah’s Ark, Melbourne. (Consultancy)
• Green, C. (2022, April 20) Extensive Reading and the Acquisition of Vocabulary. International Perspectives on Corpus Technology for Language Learning, University of Queensland.
• Green, C. (2020, June 2-10). Text Mining and Information Extraction using Corpus Linguistics. 2-day Workshop for the Office of Education Research, Singapore, NTU Consultancy)
• Green, C. (2020, June). Graduate Level Research: Expectations and Challenges. PAPER PLENARYPRESENTED AT the NIE International Graduate Student Webinar (IGSW) 2020.
• Green, C. & Lambert, J. (2018, September). Disciplinary Literacy and the Secondary Vocabulary List. PAPER PRESENTED AT the Ministry of Education, Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Singapore.
• Green C. (2019). KEYNOTE International Seminar on Language, Education, and Culture. 
• Green, C. (2017, August). KEYNOTE. The Applications of Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching and Assessment. The International Conference on Language Teaching and Assessment: current issues and trends, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Professional Roles

• Accredited Linguist, Australian Linguistics Society (February, 2023-ongoing)
• Australian Linguistics Society (Co-Chair of Special Interest Group Linguistics in the Schools), 2021-ongoing)
• Ontario College of Teachers (OCT), 2012- ongoing
• International Association of Applied Psychology, 2018- 2019

Journal Editorial Roles

• Journal of English for Academic Purposes (SJR Q1 impact factor, 1.64) Editorial Board, 2020- ongoing.
• Asia Pacific Journal of Education (SJR Q2 impact factor, 0.733) Associate Editor, 2020-ongoing.

Potential PhD students are encouraged to contact me in regard to supervising in the following areas: early emergent literacy, vocabulary, reading development and comprehension, TESOL, corpus linguistics and data science/NLP.

* I am currently looking for PhD students with some programming skills (e.g., python) who would like to work on primary school vocabulary and literacy from a data science perspective.