Research PhD and MA
Students
PhD students
Student names marked with an * link to profile page, otherwise names link to email.
| Student | Thesis topic | Primary Supervisor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldosari Ali | The effect of social relations, proficiency difference, and task type on dyadic interactions | Dr Neomy Storch | 12/06 |
| Allen, Wendy * | Discourse analysis of an Australian federal election campaign | Assoc Prof Lesley Stirling | 7/08 |
| Amer, Mosheer | The linguistics of representation: The US press discourse on the second Palestinian intifada | Dr Joanna Tapper | 3/08 |
| Bartlett, Meredith * | Code switching in bilingual adults using Auslan and Australian English | Prof Michael Clyne | 5/07 |
| Bickerdike, Isabel | Grammar, dictionary and texts of Wayilwan Ngiyambaa | Prof Nick Evans | 1/08 |
| Bojovic, Emilia | Intercultural miscommunication in international relations between Australia and Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 11/09 |
| Brotchie, Amanda | Analysis of Tirax Narratives | Assoc Prof Lesley Stirling | 7/07 |
| Cafarella, Caterina | NS/NNS peer reviews via face-to-face and computer-mediated communication: difference and similarities | Dr Neomy Storch | 2/12 |
| Cross, Jeremy | Collaboration in second language listening comprehension: investigating strategy use and development | Prof Tim McNamara | 7/08 |
| Disbray, Samantha | Space and motion in children's language: acquisition in a contact variety | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 1/07 |
| Ducasse, Ana María | Interaction in paired oral proficiency assessment in Spanish | Prof Tim McNamara | 3/08 |
| Fedden, Sebastian | Descriptive grammar of the Mian language of New Guinea | Prof Nick Evans | 11/06 |
| Graetzer, Simone | An acoustical study of coarticulation | Assoc Prof Janet Fletcher | 7/09 |
| Green, Jennifer | Polysemy and the social construction of meaning in Arandic discourse | Dr Barbara Kelly | 7/08 |
| Grieve, Averil * | "That was probably a big movie actually": The acquisition of phatic markers in a study abroad context | Dr Carsten Roever | 4/08 |
| Harding, Luke | The role of speech variability and accent on candidate scores in English language listening tasks | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 3/08 |
| Hashimoto, Yoji | Language proficiency, identities and social backgrounds of Japanese-Australians in Victoria | Prof Tim McNamara | 7/08 |
| Hill, Kathryn | The role of classroom-based assessment in promoting continuity in foreign language learning | Prof Tim McNamara | 6/07 |
| Hurst, Peter | A theoretical typology of reciprocal constructions | Dr Rachel Nordlinger | 2/08 |
| Loughnane, Robyn | A grammar of Oksapmin | Prof Nick Evans | 1/07 |
| Macqueen, Susan * | An investigation of locational development in L2 writing | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 4/07 |
| May, Lynette | Effective interaction in a paired candidate speaking test: the raters perspective | Prof Tim McNamara | 6/07 |
| Meakins, Felicity* | Case marking in contact: The shift in the structure and fuction of the case morphology of an Australian mixed language | Dr Rachel Nordlinger | 2/07 |
| Moore, Timothy | Critical thinking and the disciplines | Dr Joanna Tapper | 10/07 |
| Morton, Janne | Becoming architectual: socialisation into disciplinary discourse through the design studio presentation | Prof Tim McNamara | 2/12 |
| Moses, Karin | How mixed language input affects child language development: an Alywarr case study | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 2/07 |
| Nguyen, Thi Nhan Hoa | Investigation of validity of IELTS and TOEFL listening test | Prof Tim McNamara | 5/07 |
| O'Hagan, Sally | Assessment of assignments written by NNS students: A study of marker decision-making | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 6/07 |
| Ono, Hitomi | Semantics of relationship terminology in /Gui | Professor Nick Evans | 11/06 |
| Rodriguez Louro, Celeste | The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish | Dr Barbara Kelly | |
| Seebus, Ingrid | The role of Dutch-English bilingualism among residents of two Melbourne retirement villages | Prof Michael Clyne | 7/07 |
| Agreement in Mawng | Professor Nick Evans | 9/06 | |
| Slaughter, Yvette | Asian languages in the Australian education system | Prof Michael Clyne | 2/07 |
| Stoakes, Hywel | An acoustic and articulatory investigation of stop contrasts and consonant sequences in Bininj Gun-Wok | Assoc Prof Janet Fletcher | 3/08 |
| Tan, Lan | Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and its application to second language acquisition | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 1/07 |
| Tanaka, Nobue | Language and cultural exchange through project-oriented CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 7/08 |
| Ton, Ngoc * | Requests by Vietnamese learners of EFL: an investigation of the relationship between proficiency, grammar and pragmatic development | Assoc Prof Gillian Wigglesworth | 12/06 |
| Toyoda, Etsuko | Developing script-specific recognition skills - the case of learners of Japanese | Prof Tim McNamara | 12/06 |
| Warner, Michael | The mediatising forms of globalisation and networks of affect in everyday life | Prof Tim McNamara | 12/08 |
Research Masters Students
| Student | Thesis topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards, Guy * | Stance and meaning-making in interaction | 10/07 |
| Ike, Saya | Japanese English as a variety | 7/07 |
| Nibun, Yukari | Early language development of a trilingual child and his learning strategies | 1/07 |
| Penry-Williams, Cara | Language variations and identity: a survey of attitudes and patterns of usage amongst 20-30 year old, standatd Australian English speakers | 8/07 |