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PhD Research

Please note that Centre for Research in Language Education is no longer active but the website remains available as an archive.

Members of CRILE have a widespread involvement in the supervision of PhD theses concerned with many aspects of language education. Current Phd students are listed below; for details of previous students, please see the LAEL list of recent Phd students.

For further information about applying for one of our PhD programmes, please see the LAEL PhD Admissions Pages.

Current PhD Students

Charles Alderson

Mahmood Abasabadi: The washback effect of the Specialised English Test (SPE).

Nigel Downey: Listening at C1 Level? A Case Study of the Listening Section of the Advanced Level Certificate in English.

Kinue Hirano: Investigating the use of recall tasks in assessing L2 reading comprehension and some of the factors affecting these tasks.

Tania Horak: Issues in the assessment of ESOL students in adult, state sector provision in England in relation to the implementation of the Skills for Life Strategy.

Chihiro Inoue: Identifying criterial differences in speaking proficiency levels of Japanese learners of English.

TO Hyeon Oak: Exploring EFL reading instruction in high school classrooms in Korea: the pedagogic life of the Grammar Translation Method.

Jun Shik Kim: Exploring Written Performance of Korean Candidates - Implications from Developmental Patterns of Morphosyntactic Features.

Harry Kollias: Inter-rater reliability in marking C1 writing tasks

Elizabeth Guerin: Assessment Literacy

Doris Froetscher: Washback of the Exit-Level Examination reform for Foreign Languages in Austria

Lynn Blakes: Assessing the Reading Skills of EFL Young Learners

Martin Bygate

Zulqarnain Abu Bakar: A Study of Student and Instructor Perception of Feedback on Pronunciation Error Among Malay Speakers

Maria Davou: Investigating the effects of the first language in second language acquisition

Xingchao Hu: An investigation into the use of strategies in Chinese EFL learners' oral production, with particular reference to the use of fillers and turn-taking and the integration of these strategies into a speaking course

Kathy Ka Man Lee: Intercultural Communication of Native English Speaking Teachers in Hong Kong Secondary Schools

Scott Miles: Acquisition of L2 English in Korean learners

Eiko Nakamura: Task-Based Language Learning: Chaotic Period in the Process of Learners' Language Development

Sachiyo Nishikawa: Reinforcing Intake by Interdependent Learning: The impact of prior reading and listening on L2 speech

Shirley Reay: Investigation into the Relationship between Oracy and Literacy Based Models of Language in the Assessment of Oracy

Abbas Sheikholeslami: A Study of  Approaches to Learning in the Iranian EFL Context

Richard James Slessor: Communication-related barriers to effective small-group participation in English by non-native spearker first year undergraduates

Nataporn Srichamnong: Vocabulary acquisition and retention of Thai EFL students in reading activities

Giles Witton-Davies: The Development of Fluency over Four Years Studying English at a Taiwanese University

Judit Kormos

Abdulrahman Ahmed Al-Ghamdi: Investigating Language Learning Strategies of Saudi Adult Learners of English as a Foreign Language.

Somchoen Honsajr: Self-assessment in writing: a study of intermediate level students at a Thai university.

Andrea Revesz

Robert Taferner: Students' perceptions of corrective feedback on writing within the Japanese university EFL context (co-supervised with Martin Bygate)

Mike Tiittannen: The acquisition of the English simple past tense by Mandarin and Tamil ESL learners (co-supervised with Anna Siewierska)

Gila Schauer

Ken Fordyce: The acquisition of pragmatic knowledge in L1 Japanese/L2 English speakers. (co-supervised with Jonathan Culpeper)

Dianne Wall

Isabel Donnelly: Comparing the 'teacher' talk of novice and expert teachers.

Liyan Huang: Investigating the washback effect of a high-stakes examination on teacher beliefs and practices.

Simon Kinzley: The impact of a university pre-sessional course on the academic writing behaviours of a group of Chinese undergraduate students studying for a degree in media and cultural studies.

Charalambos Kollias: On-line training of examiners of writing.

Geraldine Ludbrook: Investigating English language teaching performance competences for Italian CLIL teachers in the secondary school science classroom.

Anne Nebel: Task difficulty and task equivalence in high-stakes writing assessment: investigating dimensions of validity in test development and analysis.

Sangbok Park: The washback effects of a high-stakes test on student attitudes: A study using insights from motivation theory.

Geoffrey Shaw-Champion: The Interactive Speaking Task - Investigating the Construct.

Alan Waters

Chit Cheung Sung: Teaching and Learning English as an International Language: An Analysis of Beliefs and Attitudes among Teachers and Students in Hong Kong

William Green: The Cognitions and Teaching Practices of Japanese English Language Teachers at a Japanese University.

Mija Kim: Expertise in EFL course book evaluation.

Sharon McCulloch: Reading for writing in English for Academic Purposes

Anyarat Natheeraphong: English as a foreign language curriculum reform in Thailand

Dawn Perkins: Expertise in ELT course book design.

Chan Yuen Kwan: An analysis of a Content-based Instruction Programme in a Hong Kong university setting

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