Recently completed PhDs
| Name | Year | Research Topic |
Supervisor |
| Alessandra Panicacci | 2017 | Psychological, emotional, linguistic and cultural changes following migration. The case of Italian migrants living in English-speaking countries | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Ana Carolina Brandao | 2017 | EFL pre-service teachers’ journeys in a Brazilian teacher education program: a narrative inquiry of professional identity formation | Tom Morton |
| Parvaneh Parvaresh | 2017 | The relationship between teacher cognition and classroom practice in the context of curriculum reform | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Areej Alawad | 2017 |
The Role of Video in the Explicit Teaching of English Request Strategies in Saudi Female Students' Use of Linguistically Accurate/Fluent and Pragmatically Appropriate English Requests |
Zhu Hua |
| Dorota Gaskins | 2017 |
The usage-based account of early bilingual development: a case study of a child exposed to Polish and English from birth |
Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| Liana Pavelescu | 2017 |
Emotions and Motivation in Context: A Multiple Case Study of High School Students Learning English as a Foreign Language in Romania |
Bojana Petric |
| Takako Inada | 2016 | Determinants of foreign language classroom anxiety in a Japanese EFL university classroom and its relationship to native language use by students | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Yvonne Yu-Feng Chi | 2016 | Multilingual Couples’ Disagreement - Taiwanese Partners and Their Foreign Spouses | Zhu Hua, Li Wei |
| Brian Ramadiro | 2016 |
Code-switching/multilingualism in a South African rural classrooms |
Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| Ariadne Loutrari | 2016 |
Prosody beyond pitch and emotion in speech and music: evidence from right hemisphere brain damage and congenital amusia. |
Marjorie Lorch |
| Joanna Garbutt | 2015 | A Study of the Use of Discourse Markers in Police-Suspect Interviews | Malcolm Edwards |
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Franco Zappettini |
2015 |
The Discursive Construction of Europeanness: A Transnational Perspective |
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| Pitchayapa Siridetkoon | 2015 | Motivation, Anxiety and International Posture Of Multiple Language Learners In Thailand. | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Katherine Hammer | 2015 | Life in a new language: An acculturation perspective on language shift in bilinguals. | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| John Witney | 2015 | Lateral (Morpho) Syntactic Transfer An empirical investigation into the positive and negative influences of French on L1 English learners of Spanish within an instructed language-learning environment. | Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Fatma Said | 2014 | A sociolinguistic study of multilingual talk at mealtimes: The case of an Arab family in London. | Zhu Hua, Malcolm Edwards |
| Jennifer Watson | 2014 | Intercultural learning and development among youth participants in the short term educational programmes of an international charity (CISV) | Zhu Hua, Marjorie Lorch |
| Susan Samata | 2014 |
Unintended monolingualism: The effects on second, and subsequent, generation immigrants of not fully sharing their parents’ first language |
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Barbara Gibson |
2014 | Intercultural competencies needed by global CEOs |
Zhu Hua, |
| Yu Jiang | 2013 |
Gender Differences and the Development of L2 English Learners' L2 Motivational Self System and International Posture in China. Publication Yu Jiang & Dewaele, J.-M. (under submission) What lies bubbling beneath the surface? A longitudinal perspective on fluctuations of ideal L2 self and ought-to L2 self among learners of English in Chinese universities. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Ruxandra Comanaru | 2013 |
The Role of Language Attitudes and Practices in the Emergence of European Identity Publication Dewaele, J.-M., Comanaru, R & M. Faraco (to appear) The affective benefits of a pre-sessional course at the start of study abroad. In R.F. Mitchell, K. McManus, N. Tracy Ventura (eds.), Social interaction, identity and language learning during residence abroad. Eurosla Monographs series. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Keith Atkin | 2013 |
Comprehending the Nonconventional Nonsymbolic Behaviours Demonstrated by a Young Child with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD). Publications: Atkin, K. (2012). Interaction and Communication Lie at the Heart of Engagement: Reflections upon the Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (CLDD) Research Project. The SLD Experience, 63, 5-8. 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. Atkin, K. & Perlman Lorch, M. (2006). Hyperlexia in a Four-Year-Old Boy with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19(4), 253-269. |
Marjorie Lorch, Zhu Hua |
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Elena Antonova Unlu |
2012 |
Acquisition of the Russian language by a bilingual Turkish-Russian child in the Turkish-dominant environment. |
Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Huw Rees | 2012 |
Linguistic knowledge and listening strategies: A learner-centred approach to listening strategies research. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Zhu Hua |
| Marilena Paraskeva | 2012 |
Code-switching among London Greek-Cypriots: A study of question-response pairs. |
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| Sky Zheng | 2011 | Cultural values and the overseas higher education choices by Chinese students. | |
| Jui- Hua Chen | 2011 | Linguistic Manifestations of Aphasia in Taiwanese- Mandarin Bilingual Speakers | Marjorie Lorch |
| Kadri Hein | 2011 | Sign bilingualism in Estonia | Li Wei, Marjorie Lorch |
| Heather McDowell | 2011 |
The Relationship between Phonological Awareness and Alphabetic Literacy, with Reference to L1 Chinese Users of English Publication McDowell, H. and Lorch, M. Phonemic awareness in Chinese L1 readers of English: not simply an effect of orthography. TESOL Quarterly, 2008, 42, 495-513. |
Marjorie Lorch |
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Kataryzna Ozanska-Ponikwia |
2011 |
Emotions from a bilingual point of view: Perception and expression of emotions in the L1 and L2 Publications Ozanska-Ponikwia, K. (2013). Emotions from a Bilingual Point of View: Personality and Emotional Intelligence in Relation to Perception and Expression of Emotions in the L1 and L2. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. Ozanska-Ponikwia, K. (2012). What has personality and Emotional Intelligence to do with "feeling different" while using a foreign language? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 15 (2), 217-234. Ozanska-Ponikwia, K. & Dewaele, J.-M. (2012). Personality and L2 use. The advantage of being openminded and self-confident in an immigration context. Eurosla Yearbook, 12, 112-134. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Tomoko Nakata-Moussis | 2010 | Cross-cultural study of social psychological variables in learning English as a second language: Some Japanese and Thai data | Itesh Sachdev |
| Jenny Sia | 2010 |
The metaphorical competence of ANGER for advanced Spanish-English L2 users Publication Sia, J. & Dewaele, J.-M. (2006) Are you bilingual? Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics, 1, 1-19. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Alan Bradley | 2010 | Lexical acquisition in a bilingual setting | Marjorie Lorch |
| Yan Jiang | 2010 | The development of cross-cultural communicative competence amongst young children. | Zhu Hua, Li Wei |
| Katerina Finnis | 2009 | Language use and socio-pragmatic meaning: code-switching amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots in London | Penelope Gardner-Chloros |
| May El-Shikhani | 2008 | Language Testing and Interlanguage: The Case of Lebanese Learners' Interlanguage(s). Jean-Marc Dewaele, Supervisor. | Larry Selinker, Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Rosemary Wilson | 2008 |
.Another language is another soul.: Individual differences in the presentation of self in a foreign language. Publications Wilson, R. (2013) Another language is another soul. Language and Intercultural Communication DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2013.804534 Wilson, R. & Dewaele, J.-M. (2010) The use of web questionnaires in second language acquisition and bilingualism research. Second Language Research 26, (1), 103–123. |
Jean-Marc Dewaele |
