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• Possible Worlds Theory and Readers’ Emotions: The Construction of Textual Actual and Possible Worlds and Readers’ Responses to Literature

  Author: Mansworth, M. F., Apr 2022

  Supervisor: Giovanelli, M. (Supervisor) & Harrison, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF FAMILY SIZE DECISIONS: The Experiences of Somali and Sudanese Migrant Communities

  Author: Ahmed, J. H. J., Jan 2022

  Supervisor: Lowe, P. (Supervisor) & Jones, D. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Modelling Inference Strategies and Robust Clustering Topologies

  Author: Farooq, A., Jun 2022

  Supervisor: Saad, D. (Supervisor) & Higson, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The Empowerment of EU Agencies in EU Border Management

  Author: Zhong, Y., Jan 2022

  Supervisor: Rozbicka, P. (Supervisor), Farrand Carrapico, H. (Supervisor) & Turner, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Bureaucratisation and the Rise of Office Literature: 1810-1900

  Author: Jenkin-Smith, D., 2021

  Supervisor: Boucher, A. (Supervisor) & Giovanelli, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

• An Exploration of Pupils’ and Teachers’ Discursive Constructions of Religion(s): The Case of Alexander Parkes Primary School

  Author: Benoit, C., 2021

  Supervisor: Jones, D. J. (Supervisor) & Page, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Translation, Travel, and Gender: A Comparative Analysis of Three Women Arabic Translators in Victorian Britain

  Author: Osgood, K., Sep 2021

  Supervisor: Manz, S. (Supervisor) & Castro, O. (External person) (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Corpus-based Study of the Rhetorical Organization and Lexical Realization of Scientific Research Abstracts

  Author: Blake, J., Mar 2021

  Supervisor: Kredens, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Does Phonics Instruction Improve Phonics Awareness, Read and Spelling?

  Author: Graham, L., 2021

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Master's Thesis › Master of Philosophy

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• Executive Dominance and the British Constitution

  Author: Hinks, J., Oct 2021

  Supervisor: Brenncke, M. (Supervisor), Murphy, R. (Supervisor) & Goddard, R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Pledging to Harm: A Linguistic Analysis of Violent Intent in Threatening Language

  Author: Hurt, M., 2021

  Supervisor: Grant, T. D. (Supervisor) & Kredens, K. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The Gendered Aspects of Age Capital for Navigating Entrepreneurship

  Author: Moore, I., 2021

  Supervisor: Scully, J. (Supervisor), Hart, M. (Supervisor) & Theodorakopoulos, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Greece in Translation: (Re)Constructing Online Narratives of Nation and Identity in Tourism and Culture

  Author: Plisiotis, K., 2021

  Supervisor: Castro, O. (Supervisor), Austermuehl, F. (Supervisor) & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Crossing the Rubicon: An idiodynamic investigation into the relationship between willingness to communicate and learner talk

  Author: Ducker, N., 2020

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Languages Market in the Horn of Africa: a case study of Djibouti

  Author: Dirie, S., 2020

  Supervisor: Labeau, E. (Supervisor) & Larrivee, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The role of youth and student wings in shaping Social Democratic Parliamentarians in Germany and Great Britain.

  Author: Davies, L. J., 2020

  Supervisor: Turner, E. O. (Supervisor) & Obradovic, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Discursive manifestations of the statutory child-adult divide in police interviews with suspects aged 17 and 18

  Author: Heini, A., 2020

  Supervisor: Haworth, K. (Supervisor) & Kredens, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• South Korea, English, and globalisation: investigating young Korean adults’ English regard

  Author: Porteous, N., 2020

  Supervisor: Clark, U. (Supervisor) & Grandon, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Games, push-backs and the everyday violence at the Bosnian-Croatian border

  Author: Augustova, K., Jun 2020

  Supervisor: Mizen, P. (Supervisor) & Obradovic, J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• L1 practices of English teachers working in L2 classes in Turkish primary schools: how much, when, how and why?

  Author: Tekin, S., 2020

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor) & Kurtoglu-Hooton, N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Transnational Education (TNE) Programmes – The Development of TNE in Vietnam within a Transnational UK Education Context

  Author: Phung, N. P., Mar 2020

  Supervisor: Higson, H. E. (Supervisor) & Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Rhetorical moves and identity performance in online child sexual abuse interactions

  Author: Chiang, E., Apr 2019

  Supervisor: Grant, T. D. (Supervisor) & Marley, C. N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Unmarried young mothers in South-Eastern Nigeria: attitudes and experiences

  Author: Amakor, G. O., 13 Mar 2019

  Supervisor: Page, S. (Supervisor) & Lowe, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Modality and learner academic writing across genres: an analysis of discourse, socialisation and teacher cognition on a 20-week pre-sessional programme

  Author: Fagan, J., 26 Jun 2019

  Supervisor: Marley, C. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Text World Theory and the secondary English classroom

  Author: Cushing, I., 2019

  Supervisor: Clark, U. I. (Supervisor) & Giovanelli, M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A genre-based approach to speaking in EFL

  Author: Wilkins, S., 2019

  Supervisor: Clark, U. I. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Sennep: vichy through the medium of political cartoons

  Author: O'Neill, C., 26 Jun 2019

  Supervisor: Shields, J. (Supervisor) & Sudlow, B. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The reluctant customer: case study research exploring the impact of marketisation on pedagogy and practice at three universities in england

  Author: Gorman, P., 1 Jul 2019

  Supervisor: Tritter, J. (Supervisor) & Tonkiss, K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• An exploration of students’ construction of knowledge and identities during the reading of literature using Text World Theory

  Author: Ahmed, F., 2019

  Supervisor: Giovanelli, M. (Supervisor) & Clark, U. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The perceived English language learning outcomes associated with project-based language learning: a case study at a Japanese junior college

  Author: Moritoshi, T., 11 May 2018

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Exploring the use of video-based materials in the Japanese university English language classroom

  Author: Grandon, M., 11 Aug 2018

  Supervisor: Gremler, C. (Supervisor) & Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Violencia y humor en la Guerra Civil Española según la obra de Juan Eslava Galán

  Author: Ramos Caballero, A., 2018

  Supervisor: Medina, R. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Young people living with liver disease: a qualitative study of experiences of transitions

  Author: Bashir, S., 21 Feb 2018

  Supervisor: Lowe, P. (Supervisor) & Peel, E. A. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The timing of explicit form-focused instruction and its impact on task outcomes

  Author: Hawkes, M., 13 Sep 2018

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor) & Morris-Adams, M. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Textual organisation and construal of interpersonal meanings in different genres of medical texts

  Author: Gao, Y., 30 Nov 2018

  Supervisor: Marley, C. N. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Can economic crises constitute collective identity crises?: The case of Greek European identity during the Greek debt/Eurozone crisis

  Author: Ntampoudi, I., 13 May 2017

  Supervisor: Gaffney, J. (Supervisor), Copsey, N. W. (Supervisor) & Carrapiço, H. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• A literary translation in the making: an in-depth investigation into the process of a literary translation from French into Maltese

  Author: Borg, C., 20 Feb 2017

  Supervisor: Hubscher-Davidson, S. (Supervisor), Schaeffner, C. G. (Supervisor) & Castro, O. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Social change performed through the practice of allotment gardening

  Author: Whittaker, V., 20 Jun 2017

  Supervisor: Lowe, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Bilingual practices in Ghanaian primary schools: implications for curriculum design and educational practice

  Author: Yevudey, E., 13 May 2017

  Supervisor: Reershemius, G. K. (Supervisor) & Grieve, J. W. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Investigating the translation competence of graduates of Bachelor degree programmes in Jordan

  Author: Khoury, O., 2017

  Supervisor: Schaeffner, C. G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The discursive construction of motherhood through digital interaction

  Author: MacKenzie, J., 2016

  Supervisor: Baxter, J. A. (Supervisor) & Plappert, G. L. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Developing a pedagogical framework for teaching Chinese aspect markers le, guo, zai and zhe - a comparative study of the Grammar-Translation approach and a communicative approach

  Author: Zhang, Q., 28 Nov 2016

  Supervisor: Labeau, E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• The linguistic impact of migration: the case of Albanian immigrant children in Greece

  Author: Sarri, U., 2016

  Supervisor: Reershemius, G. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Something to talk about : Content and Language Integrated Learning in Modern Languages in British Higher Education. A case study of German at Aston University

  Author: Wielander, E., 17 Jun 2016

  Supervisor: Reershemius, G. K. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Exploring care relations in later life: disentangling notions of care and choice

  Author: Locke, P., 15 Jun 2016

  Supervisor: West, K. A. (Supervisor), Holland, C. A. (Supervisor) & Pilcher, K. E. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Authorship profiling in a forensic context

  Author: Nini, A., 26 Feb 2015

  Supervisor: Grieve, J. W. (Supervisor), Grant, T. D. (Supervisor) & Coulthard, R. M. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Ideological aspects of the translation of business annual reports in Oman (English-Arabic)

  Author: Al-Obaidani, K., 27 May 2015

  Supervisor: Schaeffner, C. G. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• An action research study with low proficiency learners in Japan to promote the learning of vocabulary through collocations.

  Author: Antle, J., 3 Dec 2015

  Supervisor: Garton, S. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Muslim women's political participation in francophone Europe: a comparative study of France and Belgium

  Author: Easat-Daas, A., 2015

  Supervisor: Shields, J. G. (Supervisor), Hayes, G. A. (Supervisor) & Garner, S. J. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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• Modern foreign languages classroom: is inclusion of all exclusion in disguise?

  Author: D'Almeida, E., 18 Nov 2015

  Supervisor: Rogers, C. A. (Supervisor) & Lowe, P. (Supervisor)

  Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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