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Take the first step toward a research degree in linguistics We conduct and supervise a wide range of research See the variety of research our HDR graduates have produced

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 nameThesis title
Cailyn FurzeAccessibility of hearing services in Australia for culturally and linguistically diverse individuals and families
Amin PouresmaeilThe online effects of processing instruction and structured input on second language acquisition and the role of input modality: Primary and secondary effects
Shuangshuang YangInvestigating 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 nameThesis title
Carolyn MeeInvestigation 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