HDR graduates

Recent 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)

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Samer N Khatmah Alanazi	Exploring English as a Medium of Instruction for the Teaching of Medicine in Saudi Arabia	Dr Cassandra Liardet Dr Jae-Hyun Kim Dr Dana Skopal
Fayz A Ibrahim Alasmri	Cross-linguistic influence of English on (translated) Arabic across register and time: A corpus-based study	Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Mohamed Bardi Dr Haidee Kotze
Rodrigo Araújo e Castro	Systemic-functional modeling of text complexity in Brazilian Portuguese	Associate Professor David Butt Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Professor Adriana Silvina Pagano
Ali S Ahmad Assiri	An Investigation into Subtitling Conjunctive Markers in Subtitling from English into Arabic: A Corpus-based Study	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Dr Nicholas Wilson Associate Professor Ashraf Abdel Fattah
Viktoria Bodis	Multilingual students at monolingual universities: Language ideological debates about international students in Australia	Professor Ingrid Piller Dr Philip Chappell
Maria Johannes Josef Dahmen	An interactional-linguistic perspective on Jaru conversation	Dr Joseph Blythe Dr Scott Barnes
Pablo Marcelino Faúndez Astudillo	Developing a clinical objective measurement of binaural processing	Professor David McAlpine Dr Lindsey Van Yper
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	Associate Professor Peter Roger Professor Philip Benson
Van Xuan Ha	Oral corrective feedback in Vietnamese EFL classrooms: Effects of awareness-raising activities on teachers’ beliefs and practices	Dr Jill Murray Dr Jenifer Lising Professor Abdolmehdi Riazi Dr Loes Koring
Thi Thanh Truc Ly	Vietnamese International Students’ Out-of-Class Language Learning Experiences While Studying English in Australia	Dr Philip Chappell Professor Philip Benson
Colleen Ratko	Articulatory characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English	Dr Michael Proctor Professor Felicity Cox
Patrick Rian	Communication Strategies in Small-Group Discussions in Japanese University EFL Classes	Associate Professor Roger, Peter Dr Chappell, Philip
Tuy Anh Ton Nu	L2 Pragmatics for EFL Teachers: A Study of Vietnamese Teachers’ Pre-service Education and In-service Professional Development	Dr Jill Murray Dr John Knox Dr Jenifer Lising Dr Philip Chappell
Thi Tu Liem Truong	English-Medium Instruction in Vietnamese Higher Education: Voices of Teachers and Students	Dr Jill Murray Dr Cassandra Liardet Dr Loes Koring Associate Professor Stephen Moore
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	Associate Professor Stephen Moore Dr Maria Herke Dr Philip Chappell
Wing Sze Louise Webster	The Functions of a Second Order of Symbolic Articulation: Linguistic Stylistics and Dialogue in The Sunset Limited of Cormac McCarthy	Associate Professor David Butt Dr Maria Herke Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin
Yan Yue	Registerial Expertise in Translation: Managing indeterminacy in the Chinese medicine classic Huang Di Neijing	Associate Professor David Butt Dr Jing Fang Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin
Weiwei Zhang	Coherence building in note-taking for consecutive interpreting: An investigation of professional and trainee interpreters’ layout of notes	Associate Professor Marc Orlando Dr Scott Barnes

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisor/s
Fahad A Samar Alkhalil	Ideologies of English Language Teaching and Learning in Saudi Arabia	Professor Ingrid Piller Dr Jinhyun Cho
Attaf K Khedir Almoayidi	Phonetics and Phonology Between Theory and Practice: A Study of English Major Students in Saudi Arabia	Associate Professor Peter Roger
Hamed Aref Hayyan Alrosan	Translation of Cultural References in the Subtitling of Anglophone Feature Films into Arabic: A Parallel Corpus-Based Study	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Dr Nicholas Wilson Assistant Professor Ashraf Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Ahmad S Eisa Asiri	Translation strategies for culture-specific items in the Qur’an: A corpus-based descriptive study	Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Dr Haidee Kotze Associate Professor Mustapha Taibi
Claire Davis	Improving communication outcomes for children with hearing loss in their early years: Tracking progress and guiding intervention	Associate Professor Robyn Harrison Dr Scott Barnes
Irene Dofs	Internationalisation and EAL Student Adjustment at a Higher Educational Institution: A Leap Through the Dragon’s Gate	Professor Philip Benson Dr Philip Chappell
Amanda-Mei Fullerton	Cross-modal Activity in Adults with Cochlear Implants: A Multimodal Brain Perspective	Professor Catherine McMahon Associate Professor Blake Johnson
Hazem Kawafha	The Impact of Teacher Cognition on Code-switching in Arabic Classrooms	Dr Jill Murray Dr Verna Rieschild Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin
Sixin Liao	The Impact of Visual and Auditory Information on Subtitle Processing: An Eye Tracking Study	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Professor Erik Reichle Dr Lili Yu
Julien Millasseau	The acquisition of voicing contrasts in children with hearing loss	Professor Katherine Demuth Dr Laurence Bruggeman
Madiha Neelam	The representation of Muslim women as speakers of English	Professor Ingrid Piller
Thi Thu Nguyen	Vietnamese students’ use of communication strategies in academic English as a lingua franca	Professor Lynda Yates
Mohammed A Yousef Sahari	A corpus-based study of culturally sensitive terms in subtitling Hollywood films into Arabic	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Dr Nicholas Wilson Assistant Professor Ashraf Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Pia Patricia PuruggananTenedero	Communication that counts: A sociolinguistic ethnography of globalized accounting work	Professor Ingrid Piller
Thibault Vicente	Modelling the effect of hearing impairment for binaural speech intelligibility in noise	Associate Professor Jorg Buchholz Professor Mridula Sharma Dr Matthieu Lavandier
Xiaomin Zhang	Investigating explicitation in children’s literature translated between English and Chinese	Dr Jing Fang Dr Emilia Djonov Dr Haidee Kotze

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisor/s
Nur Afifi	Introducing Genre-based Pedagogy to the Teaching of Literature Reviews in an Indonesian EFL Context	Dr John Knox Dr Philip Chappell
Fahad K Awatif Alshammri	Representations of Source and Target Identities and Communities in English Language Textbooks used in Saudi Secondary Schools	Professor Ingrid Piller Alexandra Grey
Abeer Hasan A Alyami	The Relationship Between Teachers’ Reflective Practices and Teacher Autonomy in Language Learning Classrooms in Saudi Arabia	Associate Professor Peter Roger
Matthew Campbell	The effects of noticing training, model input and task repetition of L2 speech production	Professor Lynda Yates Emeritus Professor Linda Cupples
Shan Wing Chan	An investigation of subtitles as learning support in university education	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Dr Stephen Doherty
Fakry Hamdani	Next speaker selection in Indonesian: A study of typical and atypical interactions	Dr Scott Barnes
Thi Van Yen Hoang	Academic socialisation into scholarly publishing: Perceptions and experiences of Vietnamese doctoral students in Australia	Dr Lai Ping Ma Associate Professor Stephen Moore
Jane Holt	Facilitating language processing for children with hearing loss	Professor Katherine Demuth Dr Laurence Bruggeman
OrsolyaTündeSzalay	Production and perception of lateral-final rimes in Australian English	Dr Michael Proctor Dr Anne Benders Professor Felicity Cox
OrsolyaTündeSzalay	Production and perception of lateral-final rimes in Australian English	Dr Michael Proctor Dr Anne Benders Professor Felicity Cox
John Tilney	Style, Truth and Imagination in the Short Stories of Peter Carey: A Social-Semiotic Stylistic Approach	Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Associate Professor David Butt
Yining Wang	The Heritage Language Maintenance of Chinese Migrant Children and their Families	Professor Ingrid Piller Dr Jenifer Lising

Master of Research (MRes)

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisors
Mohammed A Faisal Al Fadhil	Sensitivity to Anticipatory Phonetic Cues in English-Arabic Code Switches	Dr Jae-Hyun Kim Dr Anita Szakay
Lydie Alice Bachelier	Video Remote Interpreting in Times of Crisis: Building Capacity of Interpreting Services in Australian Healthcare Settings	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger Associate Professor Marc Orlando
Elizabeth Craig	Voices At the Top: Developing a Picture of Leadership in Australian English Language Teaching	Professor Lynda Yates Dr Philip Chappell
Matilda Kneipp	An ‘incredible’ incipient change of activity token in a tabletop roleplaying game	Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Dr Scott Barnes
Lily Nash	Improving care pathways for otitis media in First Nations children	Dr Rona Macniven Professor Catherine McMahon
Mitchell Robinson	Recursive Prepositional Phrases in Child English	Professor Rosalind Thornton Dr Loes Koring Dr Iain Giblin

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisor/s
Eman Abdulrahman M Alharbi	Initiating and responding with a wAllah prefaced turn: A study of contemporary Arabic interactional grammar	Dr Blythe, Joseph Dr Barnes, Scott
Athari Abdulrahman K Alhomoud	Framing communicative competence in Arabic courses in Australian universities	Dr Jenifer Lising Dr Nicholas Wilson
Ayedh S Anwar Alkhudidi	An Acoustic Investigation of Traces to Children’s Early Omitted English Articles: A Case Study	Dr Anne Benders
Ali Y Hashim Asiri	New Pandemic New Vocabulary- International Students Knowledge of COVID-19 Words and their Vocabulary Learning Strategies	Professor Jan-Louis Kruger, Professor Abdolmehdi Riazi
Wilson Aves	A qualitative appraisal of the construal and inculcation of shared frames of (p)reference in Australian media commentaries about China	Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin Dr Jill Murray
Stephen Baggaley	The Role of Cohesion in Cricket Journalism: Parallelism and Reference from a Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective	Dr John Knox
Christian Boyle	The Test of Speech Sound Perception in Noise (ToSSPiN) – Effect of first language, spatial separation and reverberation on speech sound identification	Dr Sharon Cameron Professor Harvey Dillon
Ana Sofia Bruzon	Communicating Primary School Enrolment Information to Parents from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds	Dr Hanna Torsh Professor Ingrid Piller
Kyonghee Lee	International students’ experiences of English language learning in their home countries and Australia.	Professor Abdolmehdi Riazi Dr Maria Herke
Margaret MacNeill Henderson	‘The two sided man’: A critical stylistic analysis of representations of the coloniser in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim	Associate Professor David Butt Associate Professor Annabelle Lukin
Elizabeth Matthews	Why Assurance and Advisory Reports look the way they do: A Discourse Analysis of Submissions to an Australian Royal Commission	Dr Cassandra Liardet Associate Professor Stephen Moore
Gay Nagashima	The Evaluation of Japanese Universities through Online English President Messages	Associate Professor Stephen Moore Dr John Knox
Mary-Kate Neal	Synchronising audiology measurement and listening-based communication ability in adults with hearing loss: A scoping review of clinical measures.	Dr Isabelle Boisvert Professor Catherine McMahon
Joseph Edward Shea	Attitudes of Australian English speakers to fricated /t/: A sociophonetic perception study	Professor Felicity Cox
Natalie Skinner	Turn permeability and cognitive-communication disorders	Dr Scott Barnes
Hui Tao	A New Model of Interpreter-mediated Aphasia Assessment for People from Diverse Language Backgrounds	Associate Professor Peter Roger
Mengjia Wu	Differences in the Process and Products of Translation and Post-editing between Bilinguals and Advanced Trainee Translators: A Contrastive Study	Dr Xin Wang Dr Jing Fang
Zhu Xie	Disjunction, negation and universal quantification in Universal Grammar	Professor Stephen Crain Dr Iain Giblin Dr Loes Koring

Student name	Thesis title	Supervisor/s
Caroline de Dear	Place Reference and Pointing in Gija Conversation	Dr Scott Barnes Dr Joseph Blythe
Melanie Thamara Fernando	Multilingualism in the public library: an exploration of the collections of five Sydney libraries	Dr Hanna Torsh Professor Ingrid Piller
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	Dr Mio Bryce Dr Helen Slatyer
Layton Reed	Teacher-Centred Professional Development: Exploring Teacher Cognition and Autonomy in Australian English Language Centres	Dr Philip Chappell
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	Dr Anne Benders