Current research students
| Name | Research topic | Supervisor(s) |
|
Elena Antonova Unlu |
Acquisition of the Russian language by a bilingual Turkish-Russian child in the Turkish-dominant environment. |
Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Keith Atkin |
Determining the communicative intentionality of young children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) who demonstrate nonconventional, nonsymbolic behaviours. Publications: Atkin, K. & Perlman Lorch, M. (2006). Hyperlexia in a Four-Year-Old Boy with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19(4), 253-269. Atkin, K. & Perlman Lorch, M. (2007). Language Development in a Three-Year-Old Boy with Prader-Willi Syndrome. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21(4), 261-276. |
Marjorie Lorch, Zhu Hua |
| Yvonne Chi | How do multilingual couples negotiate disagreement. | Li Wei, Zhu Hua |
| Ruxandra Comanaru |
The role of language attitudes, practices and policies in the emergence of European identity. Publications: Comănaru, R. & Noels, K. A. (2009) Self-determination, motivation and the learning of Chinese as a heritage language. Canadian Modern Language Review 66(1) 131-158. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis |
| Heera Das | The language use and influence of the Bengali community on London’s speech. | Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Zhu Hua |
| Elaine Marie Fraser | Gender issues in a French and Spanish media corpus. | Maria-Elena Placencia, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Joanna Garbutt | Questioning strategies and their effects in police-public interactions. | Malcolm Edwards, Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| Dorota Gaskins | The influence of the changing sociolinguistic context on the acquisition of two grammatical systems. A longitudinal study of a bilingual child. | Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Li Wei |
| Mariana Gotseva |
The impact of input as a factor in SLA on adult L2 proficiency and implicit knowledge. |
Marjorie Lorch, Malcolm Edwards |
| Kate Hammer | Psychological and linguistic investigation of bilingual minds: the effects of location and acculturation. | Jean-Marc Dewaele, Li Wei |
| Lida Izadi |
Investigating bilingualism and language practices of Farsi-English bilingual students and their teachers in Farsi complementary schools. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Li Wei |
|
Yu (Helen) Jiang |
The effect of attitudes on the acquisition of English pronunciation by Chinese students. | Jean-Marc Dewaele, Zhu Hua |
| Woralan Kongpolphrom |
An analysis of turn-taking, topic management and request strategies of Thai in English business meeting. |
Zhu Hua, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis |
| Elena Latchford | ‘Are you a ‘Dushevny’ person?’ Strategies to overcome conceptual non-equivalence in the speech of Russian-English bilinguals. | Jean-Marc Dewaele, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis |
| Nopanat Lertsuthipol | A comparison of cross-cultural reading strategies used by Thai learners in English and Thai academic reading: A case study of undergraduate EFL learners in Thailand. | Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Robert O'Neill |
Theory Building in EFL – a review of belief systems from the late 1950s to the present day. |
Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Alessandra Panicacci | The application of Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage in a cross-cultural analysis of communicative strategies, social attitudes, and identity manifestation in Italian immigrants and English native speakers' interactions. | Li Wei, Zhu Hua |
| Parvaneh Parvaresh | An investigation of the relationship between Teachers’ Beliefs and Classroom Practices in Language Teaching. | Rosemary Wilson, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Ron Peek |
Multiple language acquisition, maintenance and proficiency in polyglots. Publications: |
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Zhu Hua |
| Marilena Paraskeva | The role of different influences on London Greek Cypriot Dialect: code-switching with English and Standard Modern Greek. | Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Malcolm Edwards |
| Brian Ramadiro | Code-switching in a South African Rural School and Community. | Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Li Wei |
| Huw Rees |
Linguistic knowledge and listening strategies: A learner-centred approach to listening strategies research. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Zhu Hua |
| Amani Rohayyem | Human Rights discourse in an Arabic Context. | Malcolm Edwards, Marjorie Lorch |
| Fatma Faisal Saad Said | Linguistic strategies in identity manifestation in young Arab bilinguals. | Zhu Hua, Malcolm Edwards |
| Susan Samata | Studying the effects on second generation immigrants of not speaking their parents' first language. | Li Wei, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis |
| Nooshin Shakiba | Immigrant teenage students use more impolite and taboo words which are the representation of their new social identities, and freedom without violating L1 norms, in Canada. | Jean-Marc Dewaele, Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| Emma Sweeney | English as lingua franca in intercultural business interactions. | Zhu Hua, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis |
| Emina Tuzovic | L1 orthographic and lexical interference on L2 word processing (in Arabic speakers). | Marjorie Lorch, Malcolm Edwards |
| Jennifer Watson |
A critical evaluation of the implementation of new educational resources in an international charity (CISV). Publications: Zhu Hua, Jiang Yan and Jennifer Watson (2010) Children's perceptions of the impact of participation in an intercultural educational programme. Language and Intercultural Communication, 11 (2), 142 - 160. |
Zhu Hua, Li Wei |
| John Witney | Multilingual syntactic influence. | Jean-Marc Dewaele, Malcolm Edwards |
|
Franco Zappettini |
An analysis of the discursive construction and reproduction of europeanness through the discourse on multilingualism. Publications: "Negotiating LGBT identities in Italy: an intercultural perspective" Cultus: the Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication Issue 3, 2010, p. 115-135 |
Lisa McEntee-Atalianis, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
