Doctoral researchers in Linguistics and Communication

PhD title: The Vocabulary Growth of EFL Learners in Saudi Arabia
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol and Dr Petra Schoofs
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Production Effect on the Acquisition of Arabic Language as an Additional Language
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol and Dr Bene Bassetti
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A corpus-based investigation of Saudi women’s linguistic identity on Twitter.
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Professor Michaela Mahlberg
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Handling the pragmatics of speech acts with construction grammar and cognitive semantics
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Longitudinal Study of the Disciplinary Writing Development of Chinese Students in a UK University: Writing Development from a Dynamic System Theory Perspective
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Cognitive Predictors of Individual Differences in Language Acquisition
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Dr Nick Riches (University of Newcastle)  
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Academics of Creativity: Studies on a Multimodal PG Design Corpus.
Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Groom and Professor Susan Hunston
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The Acquisition of Polish as a Heritage Language in Children Attending British Monolingual Schools.
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Do Language Attitudes Matter? A study of home language environments, language attitudes, and academic achievement among D/deaf adolescents in the US, UK and Netherlands
Supervisor: Dr Robin Thompson and Professor Adam Schembri
Phd Psychology (working with English Language and Linguistics)

PhD title: Emergence and Development of Verb Agreement in Kufr Qassem Sign Language
Supervisors: Professor Adam Schembri and Dr Marcus Perlman
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Count/Noncount distinction of Abstract Nouns in English
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title:  Exploring verb tense and aspect in successful student writing to inform EAP instruction
Supervisors: Dr Garry Plappert and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Cognitive processes of listen-to-summarize task: A mixed-methods study
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Dr Petar Milin
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Tracking Moral Shifts in American Culture, from Dignity to Victimhood; A Corpus Linguistic Investigation
Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Groom, Dr Joe Spencer-Bennett and Dr Bodo Winter
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: The impact of technology-enhanced language learning on learners' attention, motivation and language skills: Insights from an individual-differences experimental approach
Supervisors: Professor Dagmar Divjak  and Professor Petar Milin
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Technology tools adaptation in second language writing in Vietnam
Supervisors: Dr Amanda Patten and Dr Paul Thompson
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Validity of German regional dialect markers for authorship profiling
Supervisors: Professor Jack Grieve and Dr Bodo Winter
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Constructionalizing Conversation: Collaborative Insubordination in English Language Podcasts
Supervisors: Dr Florent Perek and Dr Amanda Patten
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: A Corpus-based Study on the use of modals by Chinese learners of English
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Florent Perek

PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Evaluative language in undergraduate writing
Supervisors: Dr Paul Thompson and Dr Matteo Fuoli
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Investigating Impoliteness and Impoliteness Reciprocity in Political Language
Supervisors: Dr Joe Spencer-Bennett and Dr Matteo Fuoli
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: How does sensory experience affect the way people use and understand synaesthetic metaphor?
Supervisors: Professor Jeannette Littlemore , Dr Marcus Perlman and Dr Bodo Winter
MA Social Research / to be followed by PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Research into the distinctiveness of modern Quaker discourse
Supervisors: Nicholas Groom, Jeannette Littlemore, and Ben Pink Dandelion
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics

PhD title: Evaluating the effects of semantic transparency and the timing of explicit instruction on learning verb-noun collocations in the Japanese EFL context
Supervisors: Dr Gareth Carrol (Lead Supervisor) and Dr Crayton Walker (Co-Supervisor)
PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics (Distance Learning)