Graduate research students of linguistics
The candidates in our graduate 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 |
|---|---|
| Cailyn Furze | Accessibility of hearing services in Australia for culturally and linguistically diverse individuals and families |
| Amin Pouresmaeil | The online effects of processing instruction and structured input on second language acquisition and the role of input modality: Primary and secondary effects |
| Shuangshuang Yang | Investigating the relationship between executive functions and simultaneous interpreting training: A longitudinal within-group study |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
Hashim Asiri | Newsworthiness in Arabic news discourse: A corpus-assisted discursive news values analysis |
Ana Sofia Bruzon | Technology and transnational bilingual parenting: A double-edged sword |
Shrutika Gaikwad | Auditory order perception in adults and school-aged children |
Hamish Gillies | An L2 narrative identity reframing of the L2 motivational self system (L2MSS): Exploring data from a drama-based L2MSS intervention program |
Luke Harrington | Learning beyond a university language classroom: Exploring basic psychological needs at a self-access learning center |
Akiko Nagao | Exploring genre-based writing instruction: A scoping review of genre-based approaches and a classroom-based analysis of systemic functional linguistics genre pedagogy in the Japanese university EFL context |
Rona Pillay | Team collaboration and interaction in the operating theatre: A conversation analytic study |
Natalie Skinner | Communicative competence, cultural and linguistic diversity, and social interaction: An exploratory study of communication disability and agency in childhood |
Ruochong Su | The impact of foreignising translation strategies on the reception of contemporary Chinese short fiction: empirical evidence from psychometric instruments and eye tracking |
Joshua Wedlock | Swearing, potentially offensive, and taboo language in context: Findings from South Korea and Australia |
Zhu Xie | Children's logical interpretations of complex sentences |
Feng Xu | The acquisition of prosodic cues to meaning by Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
Reema Abouzeid | An exploration of English medium instruction (EMI) in Lebanon: The conceptual imprecision of EMI and the vagueness of policy |
Anwar Alkhudidi | Children’s development of the Arabic emphatic consonants: An acoustic investigation |
Khalid Mater M Asiri | A multimodal discourse analysis of the representation of Arabs and Americans in Sand Castle (2017) |
Caroline de Dear | Content-question words in Gija conversations |
Shiwei Fu | Characterisation in literary translation: A systemic functional approach to the English translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes |
Della Goswell | Balancing the scales: An investigation of Auslan-English interpreters managing lexical and knowledge asymmetries in legal discourse |
Emi Iwasaki | Medical terms and the conceptualisation of chest pain: Differences in scope for doctors and nurses |
Lyla Kusuma | A study of English teacher cognition under Islamic higher education in Indonesia |
Bao Tram Nguyen | Writing strategies and learner autonomy for English major students in a Vietnamese university |
Satoko Nishimura | Japanese EFL learners’ development of interactional competence in the study abroad context |
Melissa Reed | Sharing through the tough times: Teacher professional development in a social media community during COVID-19 |
Patricia Rodriguez Muyor | Translating style in Fitzgerald and Hemingway: The transfer of stylistic features in their English-Spanish translations |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Suzanna Abrahamse | Investigating language processing efficiency in preschoolers and school-aged children with hearing loss |
| Luke Alexander | Performance management and the production of subjectivity: A linguistic ethnography |
| Ahmed Alsharif | The impact of subtitles and language proficiency on L2 incidental vocabulary acquisition by Saudi university students |
| Jie Chen | Multimodal management of participation in everyday conversation: A conversation-analytic study |
| Andrew Groome | Metaphor, emotion and meaning – poetic truth in the therapeutic conversation |
| Yasunori Kato | Teaching and learning Yakuwarigo in a formal Japanese learning context: Exploring the potential |
| Emily Kecman | A critical examination of knowledge building practices and products in 'parent focused cochlear implant research' 1990–2020 |
| Yulia Kharchenko | Narratives of language identity development of international english language students during study abroad |
| Yeong Ju Lee | Language learners’ use of social media for informal language learning |
| Stafford Lumsden | A multimodal social semiotic approach to the community of inquiry framework: semiotic resources, presences, and professional development for online teacher education in TESOL |
| Saji Maruthurkkara Subramannian | Streamlining cochlear implant clinical care |
| Leigh McDowell | Japanese materials scientists’ english for research publication purposes: An elaborated error analysis |
| Darby McGrath | A corpus-assisted exploration of grammatical metaphor across populations: Successful student writers, expert authors, and EFL learners |
| Juan Mucarquer Fuentes | Hidden hearing loss and efficient information representation through the auditory midbrain |
| Colleen Psarros | The evolution of clinical models for cochlear implant (CI) management: The role of telepractice |
| Liesa Rühlmann | Race, language, and subjectivation. A raciolinguistic perspective on schooling experiences in Germany |
| Fern Sakamoto | Global competence and foreign-language learning in Japan: An exploration of stakeholder perspectives on the goals and challenges of global competence-oriented FL education in Japanese higher education |
| Senne Van Hoecke | Subtitles for access to education: The impact of subtitles, subtitle language and linguistic proficiency on cognitive load, comprehension, reading and processing in different styles of asynchronous, online university lectures |
| Jiayu Wang | Shaping writer identity of doctoral students in co-authoring with supervisors for publication |
| Hannah White | Creaky voice in Australian English |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Samer N Khatmah Alanazi | Exploring English as a medium of instruction for the teaching of medicine in Saudi Arabia |
| Fayz A Ibrahim Alasmri | Cross-linguistic influence of English on (translated) Arabic across register and time: A corpus-based study |
| Rodrigo Araújo e Castro | Systemic-functional modeling of text complexity in Brazilian Portuguese |
| Ali S Ahmad Assiri | An investigation into subtitling conjunctive markers in subtitling from English into Arabic: A corpus-based study |
| Viktoria Bodis | Multilingual students at monolingual universities: Language ideological debates about international students in Australia |
| Josh Dahmen | An interactional-linguistic perspective on Jaru conversation |
| Pablo Marcelino Faúndez Astudillo | Developing a clinical objective measurement of binaural processing |
| 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 |
| Van Xuan Ha | Oral corrective feedback in Vietnamese EFL classrooms: Effects of awareness-raising activities on teachers’ beliefs and practices |
| Thi Thanh Truc Ly | Vietnamese international students’ out-of-class language learning experiences while studying English in Australia |
| Colleen Ratko | Articulatory characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English |
| Patrick Rian | Communication strategies in small-group discussions in Japanese university EFL classes |
| Tuy Anh Ton Nu | L2 pragmatics for EFL teachers: A study of Vietnamese teachers’ pre-service education and in-service professional development |
| Thi Tu Liem Truong | English-medium instruction in Vietnamese higher education: Voices of teachers and students |
| 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 |
| Wing Sze Louise Webster | The functions of a second order of symbolic articulation: Linguistic stylistics and dialogue in The Sunset Limited of Cormac McCarthy |
| Yan Yue | Registerial expertise in translation: Managing indeterminacy in the Chinese medicine classic Huang Di Neijing |
| Weiwei Zhang | Coherence building in note-taking for consecutive interpreting: An investigation of professional and trainee interpreters’ layout of notes |
Master of Research (MRes)
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Carolyn Mee | Investigation of abnormal tone-in-noise perception patterns in children with normal speech reception |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
Xiaoyue Chen | Exploring manifold asymmetry in interaction-focused intervention for aphasia |
Xinyu Guo | Listening effort in a realistic multi-talker speech comprehension test |
Emily Pacheco | Sign language brokering and heritage language maintenance among hearing children of deaf migrant parents |
Stephanie Phillips | Flipping the script: A linguistic exploration of Autism discourse on social media |
JingYi Yang | Address and reference in Mandarin TuCáo |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Ruby Baird | The acquisition of sentential complements |
| Rebecca Cramp | “Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem” – What did the Sheikh say? Challenges for Auslan-English interpreters rendering code-switching in Arabic-English Islamic source texts |
| Luke Halvorsen | Barriers and enablers for Aboriginal families accessing ear health services through non-government organisations in NSW |
Sunjoo Kim | More than meets the eye: Indexical analysis on Korean address terms in subtitle translation |
| Kane Linton | English education in Japan: An analysis of educational policy guidelines and their effects on high school English language education |
| Pongsakorn Lorprasert | Deconvolution-based rapid auditory reflex estimation |
| Ponsuang Luengtaweekul | The impact of rise time discrimination, language ability, memory, and attention on speech recognition in noise |
| Kriengkrai Puripanyo | The effect of language and acoustic degradation on speech intelligibility in young adults |
| Brynn Quick | How are language barriers bridged in hospitals? A systematic review |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Mohammed A Faisal Al Fadhil | Sensitivity to anticipatory phonetic cues in English-Arabic code switches |
| Lydie Alice Bachelier | Video remote interpreting in times of crisis: Building capacity of interpreting services in Australian healthcare settings |
| Elizabeth Craig | Voices at the top: Developing a picture of leadership in Australian English language teaching |
| Matilda Kneipp | An ‘incredible’ incipient change of activity token in a tabletop roleplaying game |
| Lily Nash | Improving care pathways for otitis media in First Nations children |
| Mitchell Robinson | Recursive prepositional phrases in child English |