Professor Rhonda Oliver has researched extensively and is widely published in the areas of second language and dialect acquisition, age differences, and task-based language learning. Over the years many of the participants in her research have been children and adolescents learning a second language or dialect, a heritage language, and in CLIL and TBLT contexts. Her more recent work includes studies within Australian Aboriginal education settings. Her extensive publication record includes her award-winning textbook Indigenous Education in Australia Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures.