Linguistics HDR Graduates

Below is a list of recent HDR graduates from Macquarie Linguistics, listed by date of conferral of degree.

Doctor of Philosophy

2020

Javier Badajoz Davila
Thesis Title: Effect of noise and reverberation on speech intelligibility with cochlear implants considering realistic sound environments
Supervisors: A/Prof Joerg Buchholz, Dr Richard van Hoesel

Rémi Marchand
Thesis Title: Hearing aids and music
Supervisors: A/Prof Joerg Buchholz, A/Prof Harvey Dillon

Richard Miles
Thesis Title: Exploring Persuasive Techniques used by Japanese University Students in English Oral Presentations
Supervisors: A/Prof Stephen Moore, Dr John Knox

Joshua Penney
Thesis Title: The Production and Perception of Coda Glottalisation in Australian English
Supervisors: Professor Felicity Cox, Dr Anita Szakay

Matthieu Recugna
Thesis Title: Modelling the responses of Spiral Ganglion Neurons to electro-stimulation
Supervisors: Professor David McAlpine, Dr Jaime Undurraga Lucero

Hai Yen Vu
Thesis Title: The Making of an Effective English Teacher
Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Moore

Peter Wylie
Thesis Title: A Whiteheadian Critique of M.A.K. Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar
Supervisor: A/Prof David Butt

Ingrid Yeend
Thesis Title: Understanding speech-in-noise perception in adults: Exploring the relative contributions of noise exposure, musical training and cognition
Supervisor: A/Prof Mridula Sharma, Dr Elizabeth Beach

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2019

Timothy Beechey
Thesis Title: Communication difficulty and effort in conversation
Supervisors: A/Prof Joerg Buchholz, Dr Gitter Keidser

Mariana Citton Padilha Dos Reis
Thesis Title: Effectiveness of auditory training for adult cochlear implant users
Supervisors: Dr Isabelle Boisvert, Professor Catherine McMahon, Dr Helen Henshaw

Rahel Cramer
Thesis Title: Nationalism in business discourses
Supervisors: Professor Ingrid Piller, A/Prof Erik Lundmark

Rakshita Gokula
Thesis Title: Auditory processing and reading in children with reported reading and or listening concerns
Supervisor: A/Prof Mridula Sharma

Zhi Huang
Thesis Title: What Makes an Effective Translation Teacher? A Qualitative Exploration of Effective Translation Teaching and Teachers in the University Classroom
Supervisors: A/Prof Jemina Napier, Dr Philip Chappell

Mayumi Kashiwa
Thesis Title: Ecologies of Language Learning and Teaching: Teacher Cognition of Language Learning Environments Beyond the Classroom
Supervisor: Professor Philip Benson

Rebecca Kim
Thesis Title: Communication in Infant Diagnostic Audiology
Supervisors: Professor Catherine McMahon, Dr Jeannette McGregor

Melanie Law
Thesis Title: The role of editorial intervention in ongoing language variation and change in South African and Australian English
Supervisors: Dr Haidee Kotze, Professor Bertus van Rooy

Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke
Thesis Title: Power and ideology in the New Caledonian independence debate: A pragma-functional approach to Critical Discourse Studies
Supervisors: A/Prof David Butt, Dr Alexandra Kurmann

Chi Yhun Lo
Thesis Title: Benefits of music training for children with hearing loss
Supervisors: Professor Catherine McMahon, Professor William Thompson , Dr Valerie Looi

Catherine Peck
Thesis Title: Exploring Lived Experience of the Intercultural: Ideologies of Identity, Language & Culture among EFL Speakers in South Korea
Supervisor: Professor Lynda Yates

Karien Redelinghuys
Thesis Title: Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English: A diachronic corpus-based study
Supervisors: Dr Haidee Kotze, Professor Bertus van Rooy, Dr Adam Smith

Colum Ruane
Thesis Title: Global English, Global Identities, and the Global World: perceptions of a group of Korean English language users
Supervisors: Professor Philip Benson, A/Prof Peter Roger

Hanna Torsh
Thesis Title: Between pride and shame: Linguistic intermarriage in Australia from the perspective of the English-dominant partner
Supervisors: Professor Ingrid Piller, Dr Jinhyun Cho

Christopher Whitfield
Thesis Title: Developing an Informed Choice Procedure for Commencing Hearing Aid Use
Supervisor: Professor Catherine McMahon, Dr Isabelle Boisvert, A/Prof Harvey Dillon

Kun Yan
Thesis Title: An Action Research Study on Dynamic Sight Translation as A Pedagogical Tool for Skill Development and Transfer in Simultaneous Interpreting Teaching
Supervisors: Dr Zhongwei Song , A/Prof Jemina Napier

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2018

Miyuki Arai
Thesis Title: Hierarchy and Gender in the Emergency Room: Pragmatics and Translation Choices in the Japanese Version of the Television Series 'ER'
Supervisors: A/Prof Peter Roger, Professor Lynda Yates, Professor Christopher Candlin

Sijia Chen
Thesis Title: Exploring the process of note-taking and consecutive interpreting: A pen-eye-voice approach towards cognitive load
Supervisors: Professor Jan-Louis Kruger, Dr Helen Slatyer , Dr Stephen Doherty

Elizabeth Fitzgibbon
Thesis Title: Reading fluency in children of early primary-school-age: assessment and targeted instruction
Supervisors: Professor Linda Cupples, Dr Caroline Law

Alexandra Grey
Thesis Title: How do language rights affect minority languages in China? An ethnographic investigation of the Zhuang minority language under conditions of rapid social change
Supervisors: Professor Ingrid Piller

Wujian Han
Thesis Title: A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Directive Speech Act Verbs in English and Chinese Legislative Texts
Supervisors: A/Prof Ilija Casule, Dr Zhongwei Song

Kelly Miles
Thesis Title: Towards a Physiological Measure of Listening Effort
Supervisors: Professor Catherine McMahon , Dr Isabelle Boisvert, Professor Bjorn Lyxell

Gary O'Neill
Thesis Title: Multilingualism and occluded diversities within the superdiverse conditions of the United Arab Emirates: A study of the multiple language resources, practices and ideologies of young Emirati women
Supervisors: Professor Ingrid Piller , A/Prof David Palfreyman

Baljeet Rana
Thesis Title: Spatial Release from Masking in Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Supervisors: A/Prof Joerg Buchholz, A/Prof Harvey Dillon

Anmin Wang
Thesis Title: Pragmatic Information for CFL Beginners in an Experimental E-C Learners’ Dictionary
Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pamela Peters, Dr Jan Tent

Sawsan Aljahdali
Thesis Title: A functional socio-semiotic reading of the paradox of literary demotion and popular promotion in translated bestsellers: Paulo Coelho’s O Alquimista as a case in English, Arabic and Turkish
Supervisors: A/Prof David Butt, A/Prof Annabelle Lukin

Fadwa Alnafjan
Thesis Title: Improving the Clinical Applicability of Electrophysiological Assessments and Cochlear Imaging in Adult Cochlear Implant Patients
Supervisors: Professor Catherine McMahon

Thomas Amundrud
Thesis Title: Analyzing classroom teacher-student consultations: A systemic-multimodal perspective
Supervisors: Dr John Knox, Dr Philip Chappell

Benjamin Davies
Thesis Title: Children’s Gradual Acquisition Of Singular And Plural
Supervisors: Professor Katherine Demuth, Dr Nan Xu

Nigel Gearing
Thesis Title: Factors affecting the motivation of EFL instructors living in South Korea to learn Korean
Supervisors: A/Prof Peter Roger, Dr Jill Murray

Neda Karimi
Thesis Title: Patient-Centred Advanced Cancer Care: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Oncology Consultations with Advanced Cancer Patients
Supervisors: A/Prof Annabelle Lukin , Dr Alan Jones

David Kellogg
Thesis Title: Narrative and Dialogue in Child Development Vygotsky’s pedology in systemic-functional perspective
Supervisors: A/Prof David Butt

Bophan Khan
Thesis Title: Visual Literacy Instruction in Cambodian ELT: An Action Research Study and A New Pedagogical Framework
Supervisors: A/Prof Stephen Moore, Dr John Knox

Long Li
Thesis Title: The influence of Political Ideology in the Translation of English Works by Chinese Migrant Writers.
Supervisors: A/Prof David Butt,  Dr Canzhong Wu

Ankit Mathur
Thesis Title: Human Brain Mapping of Tinnitus
Supervisors: Professor Catherine McMahon, A/Prof Blake Johnson

Abdullah Qabani
Thesis Title: Language, power and the "Arab Spring": three case studies
Supervisors: A/Prof Annabelle Lukin

Lina Qian
Thesis Title: Teacher Autonomy in College English Classrooms in China: Teachers' Attitudes and Practices
Supervisors: Professor Philip Benson, Dr Phillip Chappell

Thi My Truong
Thesis Title: Considering teacher cognition and motivation in teacher research engagement: A mixed-methods study involving English language teachers at Vietnamese public universities
Supervisors: Dr Jill Murray , Dr Phillip Chappell

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Master of Research

2020

Reema Abouzeid
Thesis Title: Aligning Perceptions with Reality: Lebanese EMI Instructor Perceptions of Students' Writing Proficiency
Supervisor: Dr Cassi Liardet

Omar Alrouji
Thesis Title: The Effects of Using Blended Learning Approach on EFL Students’ Essay Writing at Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
Supervisor: Professor Mehdi Riazi

Khalid Mater Asiri
Thesis Title: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Study of Taboo Language in Literary Translation from English into Arabic
Supervisor: Dr Haidee Kotze

Andrew Groome
Thesis Title: ‘Tensile Metaphor’ And The Conversational Model: A Language-Based Approach To The Treatment Of Complex Trauma
Supervisor: A/Prof David Butt

Gye Young Lee
Thesis Title: Genre and Impact Captioning in a Korean Real-Variety Show: A Systemic-Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Supervisor: Dr John Knox

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2019

Ahmed Alsharif
Thesis Title: The Impact of Presentation Rate on the Effectiveness of Subtitles in Learning
Supervisor: Professor Jan-Louis Kruger

Sean Boylan
Thesis Title: /s/ retraction in the /st¿/ onset in Australian English: is sound change in progress?
Supervisor: Professor Felicity Cox

Jie Chen
Thesis Title: Giving information in cosmetics sales interactions: Exploring some interactional functions of the Mandarin response token dui
Supervisor: Dr Scott Barnes

Yulia Kharchenko
Thesis Title: The English-Only Policy in an Australian ELICOS Setting: Perspectives of English Students, Teachers and Academic Management
Supervisor: Dr Philip Chappell

April Law
Thesis Title: Foreign Language Anxiety: A Study Of Australian Language Students Of Chinese
Supervisor: A/Prof Peter Roger

Yeong Ju Lee
Thesis Title: Short-term and Long-term Experiences of Study Abroad in Australia
Supervisor: Professor Philip Benson

Jianjun Li
Thesis Title: Chinese EFL Learners’ Reading Motivation: A Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective
Supervisor: Professor Mehdi Riazi

Ti Nu Anh Vo
Thesis Title: Critical Thinking in English Language Teaching in the Vietnamese Context: Perceptions and University Students' Competence
Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Moore

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2018

Khatmah Alanazi
Thesis Title: Investigating First Year Science Students’ Academic Writing Development
Supervisor: Dr Cassandra Liardet

Yasunori Kato
Thesis Title: Yakuwarigo Knowledge among Learners of Japanese in a JSL Context
Supervisor: A/Prof Peter Roger

Sixin Liao
Thesis Title: The Impact of bilingual Subtitles on Attention Distribution and Cognitive Load: An Eye Tracking Study
Supervisor: Professor Jan-Louis Kruger

Thi Mo Nguyen
Thesis Title: The Transition of an ESP Teacher from a GE Teacher: A Case Study
Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Moore

Louise Ratko
Thesis Title: Articulatory Characterisation of Length Contrasts in Australian English Vowels
Supervisor: Dr Michael Proctor, Professor Felicity Cox

Mai Tran
Thesis Title: The Use of Humour in Multicultural Classrooms: A Case Study of Teachers' and Students' Perceptions and Practices from a University ELICOS Centre
Supervisor: Dr Jill Murray

Thi Tu Liem Truong
Thesis Title: Using English as a Medium of Instruction in Higher Education in Vietnam: a Case Study of a Physics Degree Program
Supervisor: A/Prof Stephen Moore

Carol Webster
Thesis Title: The Artifice of Dialogic Exchange in Film – “The Sunset Limited” as a Test Case for the Application of Systemic Functional Description
Supervisor: A/Prof David Butt

Xiaomin Zhang
Thesis Title: The Features of Translated Language in Children’s Literature Translated from English to Chinese
Supervisor: Dr Haidee Kotze

Xuan Ha
Thesis Title: Primary EFL Teachers' Oral Corrective Feedback in Vietnam: Beliefs and Practices
Supervisor: Dr Jill Murray

Emi Iwasaki
Thesis Title: Medical Terms and Concepts of Heart Failure: Differences in Scope for Physicians and Nurses
Supervisor: Emeritus Professor Pamela Peters

Stafford Lumsden
Thesis Title: The Relationship Between Teaching Presence and Online Instructor Satisfaction in an Online Teacher Training Program
Supervisor: Dr Helen Slatyer

Heiyeon Myung
Thesis Title: Mediated communication in bi and multilingual health in Korea: Perceived roles of health care interpreters in Korea
Supervisor: Dr Helen Slatyer

Tuy Anh Ton Nu
Thesis Title: Pragmatic Input in Newly-Published National English Textbooks for Vietnamese Students
Supervisor: Dr Jill Murray

Joshua Wedlock
Thesis Title: L2 Motivational Self, Social Identity, and Swearing – Perspectives from Korean EFL Speakers
Supervisor: Dr Jill Murray, A/Prof Peter Roger

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