Melbourne Graduate School of Education Language and Literacy Education

Current Higher Degree Students

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

 

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

 

Patricia Bremner
Thesis topic:Teacher scaffolding of literate discourse with Indigenous Reading Recovery students
Supervisor: Ms Janet Scull

 

Sharryn Black

Thesis topic: Literacy in early childhood education

Supervisor: Ms Janet Scull

 

Amanda Gutierrez
Thesis topic: Filling the critical literacy vessel - Struggles for power in curriculum design
Supervisor: A/Professor Ray Misson and Dr Julie Hamston

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Napasup Lerdpreedakorn
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Patariya Ruaisamran
Thesis topic: TBA
Supervisor: Dr Julie Hamston

 

Carmel Sandiford
Thesis topic: Student Teachers in the UAE
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

 

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

 

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