Current Higher Degree Students

Jennifer Ackland
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Dana Angrove
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Yamela Areesamarn
Thesis topic: The impact of content-based instruction on the teaching of English to the first-year students in a secondary school in Phetchaburi Province, Thailand
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love

Chi Won Baik
Thesis topic: The assessment of undergraduate ESL writing by subject lecturers and ESL-trained teachers
Supervisor: Dr Kieran O'Loughlin

Amanda Bayliss
Thesis topic: The influence on non-verbal behaviour on the interpretation of meaning in face-to-face spoken interaction between cultural groups
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Annette Berryman
Thesis topic: Critical literacy and equity issues
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Elizabeth Bremner
Thesis topic: Literacy practices in remote communities
Supervisor: Ms Janet Scull

Amanda Collins
Thesis topic: Filling the critical literacy vessel - Struggles for power in curriculum design
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Xia Cui
Thesis topic: Concept of spoken english
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Francesca Davidson
Thesis topic: The relationship between multicultural and language policy
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love

Mira El-Deeb
Thesis topic: The implications of learners' attitudes towards the Arabic language for the Arabic language classroom and for the future of Arabic learning in non-Arabic-speaking societies
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Robyn English
Thesis topic: Investigating effective professional learning
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Linda Gawne
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Joan Greig
Thesis topic: Interaction between international university students and advisors in academic advising sessions
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love

David Griffiths
Thesis topic: Textual diversity in policy and practice: An assessment
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Inna Gvozdenko
Thesis topic: Experiences of Russian-speaking immigrants in Australia: beliefs about language learning, teacher and learner roles and learning style preferences
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Shoko Hagino
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Elizabeth Pilkington Hirsh
Thesis topic: A framework for critical inquiry into visual imagery in a postmodern era
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Prapaisri Holumyong
Thesis topic:Developing reading activities to improve the reading strategies of the first year English major students of a Rajabhat Institute in Bangkok
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

David Howes
Thesis topic: Curriculum design in Cambodia
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Madelaine Imber
Thesis topic: To identify issues faced by lesbian and gay pre-service teachers in their introduction to teaching, primarily looking at their teaching placements
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Debra Ann Ives
Thesis topic: Influences on the visibility of the linguistic needs of post new arrival ESL students within Victorian primary schools
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Chamnong Kaewpet
Thesis topic: Developing and evaluating an ESP curriculum for eletrical engineering students in the Thai university context
Supervisor: Dr Kieran O'Loughlin

Shizuka Kandori
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Loretta Kelly
Thesis topic: The coming out process of lesbian mothers within the school context
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Helen Anne Kent
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Li Lian Khaw
Thesis topic: Formal Malaysian english: the place of the mesolect
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Irene Khng Soltani
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Oksana King
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Justine Koziell
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Brenda Krenus
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Jane Orton

Nobuko Kumakawa
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Margaret Lenan Ellis
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Napasup Lerdpreedakorn
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Jingyan Li
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Jingzhong Liu
Thesis topic: Developing a framework for a pedagogical grammar of conversational English
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Caroline Long
Thesis topic: the construction of early years literacy in Victoria 1990 - 2003
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Linlin Lu
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Christine Lynch
Thesis topic: A study of dialogic inquiry: how one teacher supports students to articulate their thinking
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Anne McKay
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love

Jennifer McKinney
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Lucia Miceli
Thesis topic: Cultural values in the design and practice of international students
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Brendan Moloney
Thesis topic: Assessing crticial reading performance in an EAP classroom using the CEL model to characterise standards of competence and focus groups to indetify factors affecting task performance and skills development
Supervisor: Professor Jo Lo Bianco

Pauline Morrow
Thesis topic: Language and non language outcomes in the CGEA
Supervisor: Dr Kieran O'Loughlin

Frances Joan Murray
Thesis topic: How doe Australia's National Assessment Program contribute to the implementation of effective education programs and improved learning outcomes for indigenous ESL students?
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Yukari Nakamura
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Deborah Nanugenyi
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor:Dr Michele De Courcy

Paul Neeson
Thesis topic: Middle year students' constructions of their worlds: framing and reframing in discourse analysis
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Ashley Newberry
Thesis topic: A comparison of aspects of language development between recently arrived migrant hearing and deaf non-Germanic adolsecents in learning English as a second language
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Thanh Tung Nguyen
Thesis topic: Incorporating culture into English language teaching in Vietnam
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Peter Okelo
Thesis topic: Maximizing language acquisition and skill attainment in the EAP learning environment
Supervisor: Dr Kieran O'Loughlin

Chen Lai Ong
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Lindsay Opie
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Malcolm Pritchard
Thesis topic: A short-term intercultural learning program in China - the student experience
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Marie Quinn
Thesis topic: Languages of instructions in the East Timorese middle years classroom
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Nirupoma Rahman
Thesis topic: Transition and identity, linguistic minority international students at an Australian university
Supervisor: Professor Joe Lo Bianco

Luke Rowland
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Kieran O'Loughlin

Patariya Ruaisamran
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Carmel Sandiford
Thesis topic: How does a CLASS (Children's literacy success strategy) co-ordinator contribute to the quality of the teaching and reading and thereby student learning outcomes in the first three years of schooling?
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

Ubon Sanpatchayapong
Thesis topic: Project-based approaches to teaching oral language skills for year and Engineering students in Thai University
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Michael Smith
Thesis topic: Exploring the dialogical potential in Chinese EFL contexts
Supervisors: Dr Jane Orton and Dr Michele De Courcy

Heui Jeong Song
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Julie Spencer
Thesis topic: Making links between home and school for ESL families
Supervisor: Dr Paul Molyneux

Shengjie Su
Thesis topic: Exploring and reflecting on overseas study: Chinese coursework postgraduate student's academic adaptation experience at an Australian university
Supervisor: Dr Michele De Courcy

Reza Tasviri
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love

Bach Le Truong
Thesis topic: The foreignness of IELT textbooks in the Vietnamese classroom
Supervisor: Dr Jane Orton

Pamela Tuckett
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson

Ottilie Umja
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Kristina Love