Current PhD students

Name	Email	PhD research
Nusiebah Alali	nala844@aucklanduni.ac.nz	How “Islamic” is the Islamic State? A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of ISIS Employment of Religious Discourse in its Propaganda
Najla Alfadda	nalf965@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Business Complaints Calls in Saudi Arabic: A Pragmatic Discourse Analytic Study
Hamed Al-Tairi	halt239@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Tongue Retraction in Arabic: An Ultrasound and Acoustic Study
Engy Abdel Baky	eabd312@aucklanduni.ac.nz	A study of Twitter feminist discourse in Egypt from a critical discourse analysis perspective
Mahmoud Aljamal	malj874@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Warning in Jordanian and Modern Standard Arabic: A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis.
Hamideh Baggali Basmenji	hbag761@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Genre Learning and Academic Writing: Postgraduate Students at a University in Iran
Morteza Bagheri Sangachin	mbag026@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Making Sense of Native and Non-native English Teachers’ Teaching Beliefs and Classroom Practices and How They Attribute Their Stated Beliefs to Different Factors
Jovan Cavor	jcav007@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Issues of target culture acquisition and identity construction in Korean learners of English in New Zealand.
Brett Chapman	bcha046@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The Use of the Present Perfect and Simple Past in New Zealand English
Orlando Chaves Varon	o.varon@auckland.ac.nz	The development of second language writing skills in a comprehensive foreign language curriculum in Colombia
Farnaz Rajabi Mehr	fraj787@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Study of Metadiscourse in Conference Presentations of Humanities Postgraduate Students: A comparison of Native Speakers and Non-native Speakers of English
Jihua Dong	jdon104@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Corpus-based study of the evaluative phraseology in agriculture academic discourse
Shuangshuang Chen	cshu118@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Null subjects in Chinese
Mengxia Fu	mfu804@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The Effects of the Timing of Recasts on the Acquisition of Different Linguistic Targets in Written and Oral Tasks
Morena Dias Botelho De Magalhaes	mdia013@aucklanduni.ac.nz	A narrative study of doctoral students' experiences in meeting the language demands of studies in one English medium university.
Maria Guapacha Chamorro	m.guapachachamorro@auckland.ac.nz	Computer versus paper-based foreign language writing: How does the writing medium affect EFL writers’ cognitive processes, text quality and raters’ scoring?
Mandana Hazrat	mhaz902@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Involvement Load Hypothesis and its impact on vocabulary learning
Maki Hignett	mhig861@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Fukushima refugees in New Zealand: Identity and second language development
Jiye Hong	jhon860@aucklanduni.ac.nz	English-Medium Instruction in Korean Educational Settings: Policy, Implementation, and Learning
Melissa Irvine	mirv844@aucklanduni.ac.nz	An emerging language variety in St. Lucia
Ye Jin	yjin128@aucklanduni.ac.nz	A cognitive approach to the semantics of up/down and shang/xiz
Thi (Ngoc Phuong) Le	lphu532@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Research articles in Applied Linguistics and Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical structures and linguistic features
Linda Lei	llei128@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Adults' Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Phrases Used as Both Adverbials and Complements
Yan Liang	ylia161@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The relationship between form-focused instruction and learners’ language acquisition in CSL classroom.
Hye-Young Lim	hlim020@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Changes in New Zealand students’ beliefs about language learning and second language proficiency
Xiaohua Liu	lxia617@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Establishing the Foundation for a Diagnostic Assessment of Reading in English for Academic Purposes
Yali Liu	lyal807@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Writing for publication: Lecturers of foreign languages (other than English) in China
Sayantan Mandal	sman788@aucklanduni.ac.nz	PF: From Philosophical Postulations to Typological, Computational and Evolutionary Evidence
Pascal Matzler	pmat757@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Doctoral writing in the natural sciences: the texts and contexts of mentoring by co-authorship
Alexander Muir	amui001@aucklanduni.ac.nz	“Distributed exponence” - how syntax constructs the morphology of the verb phrase
Van Vuong Nguyen	nvuo729@aucklanduni.ac.nz	A comparative study of metaphor used in economic discourse in English and Vietnamese based on corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
Seunghee Pak	spak011@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Motivation and identity of youth refugee ESL learners in New Zealand.
Nhu'Luan Pham	lpha937@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Humanizing global EFL course-books for students in Vietnam: Effects on language performance, interest and self-esteem
Priscilla Shak	psha628@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Developing a Framework for Effective Group Assessment in the ESP Classroom
Miyoung Song	mson055@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The Effects of Extensive Reading on Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension and the Mediating Effects of Working Memory and Motivation
Siriphan Suwannalai	ssuw152@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The long-term impact of study abroad on English language teacher educators' professional identity development in Thailand
Gervazio Tchesa	gtch098@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Functional features and the acquisition of L2 English
Pariwat Thararuedee	ptha186@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The Employability of Non-native English Teachers in Thailand.
Hien Tran	htra838@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Investigation into the Use of Interest-based Teaching Strategies to Stimulate Students’ Interest in Reading English
Maria Treadaway	m.treadaway@auckland.ac.nz	Testing the use and balance of standard phraseologies and plain language in pilot-air traffic controller radiotelephony in Oceania
Imdad Ullah	i.ullah@auckland.ac.nz	Preparing Learners for a Global Experience: Prospects and Challenges for Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence of EFL Learners in Pakistan
Naning Wahyuni	nwah516@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Investigating the Development of Children’s Interest in English Language Learning (ELL) Through Free-Reading Time
Vivian Qiong Wang	qwan175@aucklanduni.ac.nz	The Effects of Different Types of Planning and +/- Few Elements on L2 Oral Production
Worasuda Wattanawong	wwat208@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Critical Discourse Analysis on Gender Ideologies in Asian Children's Literature
Lan Wei	lwei389@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Investigating the Influence of Age and Aptitude on the Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of ESL Learners
Tana Wu	twu403@aucklanduni.ac.nz	Eating and Drinking Expressions in Mongolian: a Corpus-based Study
Xiaoming Xun	xxun001@aucklanduni.ac.nz	A Narrative Inquiry into EFL Teachers' Research Experience in Chinese Institutional Research Communities of Practice

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