Current HDR students and projects
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
HDR CANDIDATES (2018)
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NAME |
PROJECT TITLE |
ADVISORS |
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Jane AHLSTRAND |
Representations of AIDS and its victims in Indonesian newspapers: A critical discourse analysis
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Ass. Prof. Helen Creese Ass. Prof. Marisa Cordella Dr Guy Ramsay |
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Forkan ALI |
Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memories in Socio-Cultural and Political Community: Texts and Images Analysis in the Work of Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Frida Kahlo |
Dr Amy Hubbell Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana |
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Nouf ALJOHANI |
Enhancing student’s acceptance toward synchronous interaction tools to improve listening proficiency: Speakapps Mobile application podcasts and their effectiveness in enhancing listening skills |
Dr Barbara Hanna Hon. Prof. Mike Levy
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Todd ALLEN (submitted) |
An Interactional Sociolinguistic Analysis of Kanto and Kansai Listening Behaviours |
Dr Belinda Kennett Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana Dr Kayoko Hashimoto
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Alya ALSHAMMARI |
Exploring tensions and challenges experienced by NESTs and NNESTs as a result of dichotomy set between them in TESOL literature, focusing on the teachers professional identity in the context of Saudi Arabia |
Dr Barbara Hanna Dr Adriana Diaz |
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Bandar AL SHAMMARI |
Im/Politeness in intercultural arguments over moral offence |
Prof. Michael Haugh Ass. Prof. Marisa Cordella |
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Majdah ASEERI |
Pragmatics of English E-mail Communication between Saudi Female Students and Male Professors |
Ass. Prof. Ilana Mushin Dr Juliana de Nooy |
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Michael ATHERINOS |
Perceptions of ELF-oriented policies and practices in an Australian university: An interpretive phenomenological analysis |
Dr Paul Moore Dr Adriana Diaz |
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Zac BRAXTON-SMITH |
Lawson and Hernandez: National poetry in Australia and Argentina |
Dr Roberto Esposto Prof. David Carter (Comm & Arts) Dr Geoff Wilkes |
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Mitchell BROWNE |
A Grammatical Description of Warlmanpa, a Ngumpin-Yapa Language Spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory) |
Dr Felicity Meakins Dr Mary Laughren |
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Oscar CARDENAS |
Raul Ruiz’s film making: An alternative to Central Conflict Theory |
Dr Joe Hardwick Dr Roberto Esposto |
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Charlotte CHAMBERS |
The French influence on middle-English: A study of genitive use |
Dr Felicity Meakins Dr Barbara Hanna
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Chung (Chester) CHENG |
The pattern of omission in English – Chinese audiovisual translation |
Prof. Ping Chen |
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Min Hye CHO |
The comparative study on the construction of culture and ideologies in secondary English textbooks in Chongryeon (Pro-North Korean organization in Japan) and South Korea |
Dr Isaac Lee Dr Min Jung Jee |
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Farzana CHOWDHURY |
Language, social integration and economic well-being: a narrative inquiry into language experiences of Bangladesh migrants in Australia |
Dr Juliana de Nooy Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana |
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Laura CLARK |
The changing discourses of Japanese gender ideals in the novels of Haruki Murakami |
Ass. Prof. David Chapman Dr Akiko Uchiyama
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Brian COLLINS |
Acoustic and productivity analysis of Polish vowel-zero alternations |
Dr Erich Round |
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Esther CZAJA |
A conversation analysis study of the 1993 Waco siege negotiations |
Dr Rod Gardner Dr Ben Matthews (ITEE) |
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Maria DOLHARE |
Buen Vivir/Vivir Bien in Bolivia and Ecuador – theory and praxis |
Dr Roberto Esposto Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana Dr Sally Babidge (Soc Sci) |
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Claudia DORSIC
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The impact of the Red Army Faction on the cultural and political imagination
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Dr Stephan Atzert Ass. Prof. Andrew Bonnell (HPI) |
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Hala, EL SAJ (Submitted) |
Multilingualism and code switching among first and second generation Lebanese-Australians |
Ass. Prof. Ilana Mushin Dr Juliana de Nooy |
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Thomas ENNEVER (Submitted) |
A sketch grammar of Ngardi |
Dr Felicity Meakins Dr Mary Laughren |
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Amanda HAMILTON |
Nyangumarta and the school-aged child |
Dr Felicity Meakins Ass. Prof. Rob Pensalfini |
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Rebecca HAUSLER |
All's Fair in Love and War: Japanese Wartime Internment as depicted in Contemporary Australian Fiction |
Dr Lucy Fraser Ass. Prof. Tomoko Aoyama |
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Chenggong HUA |
A study of brand name translation from English to Mandarin Chinese |
Prof. Ping Chen Dr Jihong (Lily) Wang |
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Liwen HUANG |
A contrastive study of English and Chinese addresses |
Dr Leong Ko Prof. Ping Chen |
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Imelda |
Language ecology and language policy |
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Ass. Prof. Helen Creese |
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Ana KASPER-BURN |
The notion of "becoming" as a conceptual cornerstone in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings and as a methodological application in the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. |
Dr Stephan Atzert |
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Hai Suk KIM |
Japanese imperial influences on Korean primary language textbooks written in Japanese from 1910 to 1945 |
Dr Isaac Lee Dr Natsuko Akagawa |
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Seonkyeong KIM |
An investigation of integration of Korean culture into Korean language textbooks and suggestions for future directions |
Dr Isaac Lee |
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Anna KULL |
Maintenance of use of Estonian language in intercultural families in Australia |
Dr Juliana de Nooy Em. Prof. Roly Sussex |
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Rika KUSUNOKI (Submitted) |
Towards a multicultural Japan: The introduction of foreign nurses and caregivers in an ageing society |
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Ass. Prof. Morris Low (HPI) |
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Hon Yuen Virginia KWOK |
Perceptions and motivations: Exploring the use of technology in teaching languages in Australian schools |
Dr Barbara Hanna Dr Peter Crosthwaite |
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Phuc Diem LE |
An effort to improve the quality of higher education in Vietnam: A project to rank and assess English Language Education undergraduate programs |
Dr Noriko Iwashita |
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Yang LEI (Submitted) |
Investigating syntactic priming effects in L2 using immediate sentence recall tasks |
Dr Noriko Iwashita Dr Michael Harrington |
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Ana Carina LOPEZ de WINTER |
Analysis of the literary texts used in Latin American primary schools textbooks and their influence on the national ethos |
Dr Susana Furphy Dr Hugo Hortiguera Dr Barbara Hanna |
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Dennis LOTSU |
Feminist Voice and the Aesthetics of 'the Woman' in Contemporary Ghanaian Cinema |
Ass Prof. Greg Hainge Dr Amy Hubbell |
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Esther LOVELY (Submitted) |
A study of "Gireogi Appa": how do the Korean fathers who send their families overseas for education cope alone and how are the family relationships affected |
Dr Belinda Kennett Ass. Prof. David Chapman |
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Gino MAYAUTE |
Latin American diasporic musical identities through dance |
Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana Dr Natsuko Akagawa |
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Michael MERSIADES |
Assessing Proficiency in Making Inferences during Reading in a Second Language |
Dr Michael Harrington Dr Noriko Iwashita
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Jayden MACKLIN-CORDES |
The linguistic prehistory of Sahul: a phylogenetic exploration of languages in Australia and New Guinea |
Dr Erich Round Dr Simon Greenhill (Ext) |
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Joy McGRATH |
The demise of the Chinese courtesan: Murder, the mediasphere and the mixed court in Republican Shanghai |
Dr Rosemary Roberts |
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Thomas MORT |
Examining changes in linguistic indicators of territory of information behavior across time |
Ass. Prof. Ilana Mushin Dr Rod Gardner |
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Sri MUNIROCH |
Pesantren literature: Finding its position in the history of Indonesian literature |
Ass. Prof. Helen Creese Dr Annie Pohlman |
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Hoang Phuong NGUYEN |
The grammaticalisation of nouns and verbs into prepositions in Vietnamese: the cases of giua and cho |
Dr Kari Sullivan Dr Erich Round |
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Thi Hong Nhat NGUYEN |
Developing human resources and a database of e-learning materials to support the current credit-based education at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hanoi Pedagogical University, NS |
Dr Paul Moore Hon. Prof. Mike Levy |
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Thi Thu Huong NGUYEN |
Translation criticism as a useful tool in enhancing learners critical thinking |
Dr Akiko Uchiyama Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Dr Belinda Kennett |
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Nurhemida |
Learner autonomy and its contribution to English learning at schools in Indonesia |
Dr Noriko Iwashita |
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Mauro OCANA |
Use of a generic adaptive learning environment (with recommender system) and email marketing tools to motivate supplementary autonomous learning among university EFL students |
Dr Barbara Hanna Dr Juliana de Nooy |
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David OSGARBY |
A sketch grammar of Mudburra, Nothern Territory (Australia) |
Ass. Prof. Rob Pensalfini Dr Felicity Meakins
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Daniel PALLER |
The impact of the new curriculum on the assessment policy: Contradictions in the initiative of conducting English classes in English in Japanese high schools |
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Dr Noriko Iwashita |
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Gustavo POENITZ |
Peronist neo-caudillism in Argentinian political literature: Biographical accounts of Carlos Menem and Nestor Kirchner |
Dr Roberto Esposto Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana |
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Christian ROMUSS |
Continuities and discontinuities between the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer and Philipp Mainlaender |
Dr Stephan Atzert Dr Geoff Wilkes |
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Umme SALMA |
“But new connections begin, new traps arise and new pains”: Visions of transculturation in recent Indian sub-continental English novels |
Dr Amy Hubbell Dr Juliana de Nooy |
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Fiona SAWYER |
Technology in the LOTE classroom for vocabulary acquisition |
Dr Juliana de Nooy Dr Min Jung Jee |
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Sheron SENDZIUK |
Mourning Sickness and the Nature of Self and Consciousness in a Post Kantian World |
Prof. Tim Mehigan Dr Michelle Boulous-Walker (HAPI) |
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Annita STELL |
The long-term impact of online collaborative writing for EFL writing development |
Dr Noriko Iwashita Dr Paul Moore |
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Daniel STUNTZ |
The effect of tablet devices on second language performance, motivation and materials development |
Dr Michael Harrington Hon. Prof. Mike Levy
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David TRETHOWAN |
Request and refusal strategies of Chinese EFL university students |
Prof. Ping Chen Dr Will Gatherer Dr Wei-Lin Melody Chang |
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Jinyue WANG |
A study of Howard Goldblatt’s English translation of Mo Yan’s novels |
Dr Leong Ko Dr Wendy Jiang Dr Will Gatherer |
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Libin WANG |
Translation of metaphors in financial discourse |
Prof. Ping Chen Dr Leong Ko |
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Lara WEINGLASS |
Humour and laughter in Australian workplace interactions |
Prof. Michael Haugh Ass. Prof. Ilana Mushin |
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Tin Kei WONG |
Female missionaries and the translation of Western children’s literature: construction of female consciousness |
Ass. Prof. Tomoko Aoyama Dr Akiko Uchiyama Dr Rosemary Roberts
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Sandra WORRALL |
Changing Perceptions: women from refugee backgrounds creating identity and building social capital in Australian communities |
Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana Dr Adriana Diaz |
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Ruihua YIN |
Consonantal assimilation in Korean |
Dr Erich Round |
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Megan YUCEL |
Before and after IELTS: A narrative enquiry into the lived experiences of IELTS test candidates |
Dr Noriko Iwashita Dr Paul Moore |
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Jane Zaun |
What are the prevailing attitudes, perceptions and context that underpin the low retention rate for Queensland students of foreign languages, and comparing this issue national and internationally, how can it be resolved through education policy, curriculum and schools? |
Dr Barbara Hanna Ass. Prof. Marissa Cordella Dr Adriana Diaz |
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Yifan ZHANG |
Developing intercultural communication competence through blended learning: the effects of a blended culture-teaching project in China |
Ass. Prof. Marisa Cordella Dr Adriana Diaz Dr Min Jung Jee |