Cindy Schneider

Cindy Schneider is a linguist with wide-ranging research experience that spans language description (languages of the Pacific), sociolinguistics (language practices and ideologies, literacy as a social practice), and applied linguistics (language and literacy teaching, intelligibility between closely related languages, language policy and planning, language and the law). 

• LING101 Introduction to Linguistics
• LING102 Foundations of Linguistics
• LING244 Language and the Law
• LING353/553 The English Language
• LING369/569 Morphology and Syntax
• LING371/571 Sociolinguistics and Language Ecology

Cindy Schneider has 30 years of professional experience in language documentation and description (languages of the Pacific), sociolinguistics (language policy, planning, attitudes and practices), and applied linguistics (language and literacy teaching, intelligibility, language and the law).She has conducted extensive linguistic fieldwork, mostly in the Pacific (Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea), but also in Maasailand (Kenya).At the tertiary level, Cindy has taught English as a Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) at universities in the USA, Mexico, and Australia (1996-2007). She also worked as a certified IELTS examiner for students applying for tertiary study in Australia. In the area of general English and equity services, she has taught adult literacy and ESL/EFL in Colorado and Oregon (1996-1998), and at the New England Institute of TAFE in Armidale (2002-2007).After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University (now the Centre for Research on Language Diversity), she became a full-time academic at UNE in 2009.Cindy completed a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 2023.