Recently completed PhDs

Supervisor

Xuemei Chen

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

The usage-based account of early bilingual development: a case study of a child exposed to Polish and English from birth

Emotions and Motivation in Context: A Multiple Case Study of High School Students Learning English as a Foreign Language in Romania

Attitudes to LX speech: performance and status evaluations in group work

Code-switching/multilingualism in a South African rural classrooms

Prosody beyond pitch and emotion in speech and music: evidence from right hemisphere brain damage and congenital amusia.

Franco Zappettini

2015

The Discursive Construction of Europeanness: A Transnational Perspective

Lisa McEntee-Atalianis

Unintended monolingualism: The effects on second, and subsequent, generation immigrants of not fully sharing their parents’ first language

Li Wei,
Jean-Marc Dewaele,

Barbara Gibson

Zhu Hua,
Rosemary Wilson, Kerry Harman

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.

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.

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.

Elena Antonova Unlu

Acquisition of the Russian language by a bilingual Turkish-Russian child in the Turkish-dominant environment.

Linguistic knowledge and listening strategies: A learner-centred approach to listening strategies research.

Code-switching among London Greek-Cypriots: A study of question-response pairs.

Penelope Gardner-Chloros, Malcolm Edwards

Li Wei, Zhu Hua

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.

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.

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.

.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.