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Read their thesesRecent graduates of a linguistics research degree
The candidates in our research degrees are integral to our transformative research in the Department of Linguistics.
Our recent higher degree research (HDR) graduates are listed below by date of conferral of degree.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
2022 PhD graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisors |
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| Samer N Khatmah Alanazi | Exploring English as a Medium of Instruction for the Teaching of Medicine in Saudi Arabia |
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| Fayz A Ibrahim Alasmri | Cross-linguistic influence of English on (translated) Arabic across register and time: A corpus-based study |
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| Rodrigo Araújo e Castro | Systemic-functional modeling of text complexity in Brazilian Portuguese |
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| Ali S Ahmad Assiri | An Investigation into Subtitling Conjunctive Markers in Subtitling from English into Arabic: A Corpus-based Study |
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| Viktoria Bodis | Multilingual students at monolingual universities: Language ideological debates about international students in Australia |
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| Maria Johannes Josef Dahmen | An interactional-linguistic perspective on Jaru conversation |
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| Pablo Marcelino Faúndez Astudillo | Developing a clinical objective measurement of binaural processing |
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| James Fryer | The L2 motivational self systems of Japanese University study abroad students: Quality contact, social networks and changes in the L2 self in both the short and long term |
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| Van Xuan Ha | Oral corrective feedback in Vietnamese EFL classrooms: Effects of awareness-raising activities on teachers’ beliefs and practices |
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| Thi Thanh Truc Ly | Vietnamese International Students’ Out-of-Class Language Learning Experiences While Studying English in Australia |
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| Colleen Ratko | Articulatory characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English |
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| Patrick Rian | Communication Strategies in Small-Group Discussions in Japanese University EFL Classes |
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| Tuy Anh Ton Nu | L2 Pragmatics for EFL Teachers: A Study of Vietnamese Teachers’ Pre-service Education and In-service Professional Development |
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| Thi Tu Liem Truong | English-Medium Instruction in Vietnamese Higher Education: Voices of Teachers and Students |
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| Thi Nu Anh Vo | Fostering students’ critical thinking in English language teacher education: A comparative case study of two master’s programs in Applied Linguistics/TESOL in Australia and Vietnam |
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| Wing Sze Louise Webster | The Functions of a Second Order of Symbolic Articulation: Linguistic Stylistics and Dialogue in The Sunset Limited of Cormac McCarthy |
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| Yan Yue | Registerial Expertise in Translation: Managing indeterminacy in the Chinese medicine classic Huang Di Neijing |
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| Weiwei Zhang | Coherence building in note-taking for consecutive interpreting: An investigation of professional and trainee interpreters’ layout of notes |
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2021 PhD graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor/s |
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| Fahad A Samar Alkhalil | Ideologies of English Language Teaching and Learning in Saudi Arabia |
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| Attaf K Khedir Almoayidi | Phonetics and Phonology Between Theory and Practice: A Study of English Major Students in Saudi Arabia |
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| Hamed Aref Hayyan Alrosan | Translation of Cultural References in the Subtitling of Anglophone Feature Films into Arabic: A Parallel Corpus-Based Study |
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| Ahmad S Eisa Asiri | Translation strategies for culture-specific items in the Qur’an: A corpus-based descriptive study |
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| Claire Davis | Improving communication outcomes for children with hearing loss in their early years: Tracking progress and guiding intervention |
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| Irene Dofs | Internationalisation and EAL Student Adjustment at a Higher Educational Institution: A Leap Through the Dragon’s Gate |
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| Amanda-Mei Fullerton | Cross-modal Activity in Adults with Cochlear Implants: A Multimodal Brain Perspective |
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| Hazem Kawafha | The Impact of Teacher Cognition on Code-switching in Arabic Classrooms |
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| Sixin Liao | The Impact of Visual and Auditory Information on Subtitle Processing: An Eye Tracking Study |
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| Julien Millasseau | The acquisition of voicing contrasts in children with hearing loss |
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| Madiha Neelam | The representation of Muslim women as speakers of English |
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| Thi Thu Nguyen | Vietnamese students’ use of communication strategies in academic English as a lingua franca |
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| Mohammed A Yousef Sahari | A corpus-based study of culturally sensitive terms in subtitling Hollywood films into Arabic |
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| Pia Patricia PuruggananTenedero | Communication that counts: A sociolinguistic ethnography of globalized accounting work |
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| Thibault Vicente | Modelling the effect of hearing impairment for binaural speech intelligibility in noise |
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| Xiaomin Zhang | Investigating explicitation in children’s literature translated between English and Chinese |
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2020 PhD graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor/s |
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| Nur Afifi | Introducing Genre-based Pedagogy to the Teaching of Literature Reviews in an Indonesian EFL Context |
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| Fahad K Awatif Alshammri | Representations of Source and Target Identities and Communities in English Language Textbooks used in Saudi Secondary Schools |
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| Abeer Hasan A Alyami | The Relationship Between Teachers’ Reflective Practices and Teacher Autonomy in Language Learning Classrooms in Saudi Arabia |
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| Matthew Campbell | The effects of noticing training, model input and task repetition of L2 speech production |
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| Shan Wing Chan | An investigation of subtitles as learning support in university education |
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| Fakry Hamdani | Next speaker selection in Indonesian: A study of typical and atypical interactions |
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| Thi Van Yen Hoang | Academic socialisation into scholarly publishing: Perceptions and experiences of Vietnamese doctoral students in Australia |
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| Jane Holt | Facilitating language processing for children with hearing loss |
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| OrsolyaTündeSzalay | Production and perception of lateral-final rimes in Australian English |
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| OrsolyaTündeSzalay | Production and perception of lateral-final rimes in Australian English |
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| John Tilney | Style, Truth and Imagination in the Short Stories of Peter Carey: A Social-Semiotic Stylistic Approach |
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| Yining Wang | The Heritage Language Maintenance of Chinese Migrant Children and their Families |
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Master of Research (MRes)
2022 MRes graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisors |
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| Mohammed A Faisal Al Fadhil | Sensitivity to Anticipatory Phonetic Cues in English-Arabic Code Switches |
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| Lydie Alice Bachelier | Video Remote Interpreting in Times of Crisis: Building Capacity of Interpreting Services in Australian Healthcare Settings |
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| Elizabeth Craig | Voices At the Top: Developing a Picture of Leadership in Australian English Language Teaching |
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| Matilda Kneipp | An ‘incredible’ incipient change of activity token in a tabletop roleplaying game |
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| Lily Nash | Improving care pathways for otitis media in First Nations children |
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| Mitchell Robinson | Recursive Prepositional Phrases in Child English |
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2021 MRes graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor/s |
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| Eman Abdulrahman M Alharbi | Initiating and responding with a wAllah prefaced turn: A study of contemporary Arabic interactional grammar |
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| Athari Abdulrahman K Alhomoud | Framing communicative competence in Arabic courses in Australian universities |
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| Ayedh S Anwar Alkhudidi | An Acoustic Investigation of Traces to Children’s Early Omitted English Articles: A Case Study |
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| Ali Y Hashim Asiri | New Pandemic New Vocabulary- International Students Knowledge of COVID-19 Words and their Vocabulary Learning Strategies |
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| Wilson Aves | A qualitative appraisal of the construal and inculcation of shared frames of (p)reference in Australian media commentaries about China |
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| Stephen Baggaley | The Role of Cohesion in Cricket Journalism: Parallelism and Reference from a Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective |
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| Christian Boyle | The Test of Speech Sound Perception in Noise (ToSSPiN) – Effect of first language, spatial separation and reverberation on speech sound identification |
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| Ana Sofia Bruzon | Communicating Primary School Enrolment Information to Parents from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds |
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| Kyonghee Lee | International students’ experiences of English language learning in their home countries and Australia. |
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| Margaret MacNeill Henderson | ‘The two sided man’: A critical stylistic analysis of representations of the coloniser in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim |
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| Elizabeth Matthews | Why Assurance and Advisory Reports look the way they do: A Discourse Analysis of Submissions to an Australian Royal Commission |
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| Gay Nagashima | The Evaluation of Japanese Universities through Online English President Messages |
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| Mary-Kate Neal | Synchronising audiology measurement and listening-based communication ability in adults with hearing loss: A scoping review of clinical measures. |
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| Joseph Edward Shea | Attitudes of Australian English speakers to fricated /t/: A sociophonetic perception study |
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| Natalie Skinner | Turn permeability and cognitive-communication disorders |
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| Hui Tao | A New Model of Interpreter-mediated Aphasia Assessment for People from Diverse Language Backgrounds |
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| Mengjia Wu | Differences in the Process and Products of Translation and Post-editing between Bilinguals and Advanced Trainee Translators: A Contrastive Study |
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| Zhu Xie | Disjunction, negation and universal quantification in Universal Grammar |
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2020 MRes graduates
| Student name | Thesis title | Supervisor/s |
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| Caroline de Dear | Place Reference and Pointing in Gija Conversation |
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| Melanie Thamara Fernando | Multilingualism in the public library: an exploration of the collections of five Sydney libraries |
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| Inneke Landsberry | The speech of an older preschool bilingual sibling’s influence and impact on the language development of a younger potential bilingual infant sibling |
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| Layton Reed | Teacher-Centred Professional Development: Exploring Teacher Cognition and Autonomy in Australian English Language Centres |
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| Juliet Tobin | Infant-Directed Speech of Australian English mothers and fathers: A high and variable pitch with a more breathy and less creaky voice quality |
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