PhDs completed

Manjit Kaur (1999)
Title: Discourse strategies for argumentation for work-related communication: a comparison between Malay and Australian Business/Economics students.

Peter Mickan (2001)
Title: Textualising meanings: Second language writers in action.

Joko Priyana (2002)
Title: Developing EFL task-based language instruction in an Indonesian primary school context.

Annabelle Lukin (2003)
Title: Examining poetry: A corpus based enquiry into literary criticism.

Dewi Rochsantiningsih (2005)
Title: Enhancing professional development of Indonesian high school teachers through action research.

Susanna Pui-san Ho (2006)
Title: Exploring writing strategies employed by accounting/finance majors in both the university and the workplace.

Terry Laskowski (2007)
Title: Conceptualisations of teaching practices of three junior high school Japanese teachers of English (JTEs).

Mira Kim (2007)
Title: Application of SFG-based text analysis in translator education: A case study of English/Korean translation.

Abel Atiti (with Graduate School of the Environment) (2008)
Title: Critical action research: Exploring organisational learning and sustainability in a Kenyan context.

Paul Moore (2009)
Title: The effects of dialogic interaction on oral task performance and development in an undergraduate EFL course in Japan.

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Doctorates of Applied Linguistics completed

Marlene Brenes (2009)
Title: Constructing teacher identity: Non-native pre-service student teachers and beginning teachers.

Andrew Gladman (2009)
Title: Teacher collaboration in team teaching in a Japanese international college.

Carmen Contijoch (2009)
Title: Online tutors' beliefs on feedback.

Mick Kavanagh (2009)
Title: Chinese teachers' beliefs about language teaching.

Diane Malcolm (2009)
Title: An investigation of English reading strategies, beliefs and practices of Arabic-speaking medical students at Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain.

Veronica Sanchez (2009)
Title: Perception about supervision in the pre-service programme in ELT offered at the Buenamerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla: A descriptive study.

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Current PhD students

Arthur Firkins
Title: The discursive construction of risk in child protection.

Denise Gassner (cotutelle student with University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Title: Pragmatic devices in institutional discourse of non-native speakers of English.

Toshio Hisaoka
Title: Developmental patterns in the written language of Japanese learners of English: From SFL perspectives.

Simon Humphries
Title: A multi-perspective investigation into the diffusion of a curricular innovation in a Japanese technical college.

Somruedee Khonkput
Title: Writing marking criteria: A genre-based approach.

Jacqueline Nenchin
Title: Nonnative English-speaking teachers of English and their academic literacy.

Apiwan Nuangpolmak
Title: Facilitating learner autonomy through pedagogic multilevel tasks.

Susan Ollerhead
Title: An investigation into the policy and practice of teaching very low-literate adult ESL learners in Australia: A cross-case analysis.