Current Students
PhD Students
*March 2022-2025 Na Meng - Pluricultural Competence of English Major Ethnic Minority Students in EFL Classrooms at Yunnan University (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*April 2022-2025 Aimee Herubin (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient) - Phoentic Variation as a Function of Sexual Orientation in Rainbow Women/prosody and social meaning in lesbian and bisexual communities (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Prof. Paul Warren)
*July 2023-2026 Stella Xia (China Scholarship Council Recipient) - "Translanguaging for English Language Learning" (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Shelley Dawson)
*Nov 2023-2026 Upeksha Jayasuriya - Implicit Language Policies vis-á-vis Explicit Linguistic Landscape: A study on multilingual communities on Colombo and Wellington" (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - AProf. Jonathan Newton)
MA Thesis Students
*March-Sept 2024 Areej Alharbi - Title TBA (translanguaging) (60 point dissertation)
*March 2022-2025 Na Meng - Pluricultural Competence of English Major Ethnic Minority Students in EFL Classrooms at Yunnan University (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*April 2022-2025 Aimee Herubin (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient) - Phoentic Variation as a Function of Sexual Orientation in Rainbow Women/prosody and social meaning in lesbian and bisexual communities (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Prof. Paul Warren)
*July 2023-2026 Stella Xia (China Scholarship Council Recipient) - "Translanguaging for English Language Learning" (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Shelley Dawson)
*Nov 2023-2026 Upeksha Jayasuriya - Implicit Language Policies vis-á-vis Explicit Linguistic Landscape: A study on multilingual communities on Colombo and Wellington" (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - AProf. Jonathan Newton)
MA Thesis Students
*March-Sept 2024 Areej Alharbi - Title TBA (translanguaging) (60 point dissertation)
Completions
PhD Students
*2020-2024 Yixuan Jing (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient) - Case Study of School Based EFL Professional Development for TBLT through Lesson Study in Rural China (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*Oct 2021-2022 (deceased) Apsara Wimalasiri (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient; Winner of the VUW Applied Linguistics Prize) - Singhalese and Samoan heritage language education in New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Sadat Muaiava)
*2017-2021 Juliet Kennedy (Rewi Alley Scholarship Winner, Dean's List) - Alofa ki te tamā manu: Language, culture, identity, and wellbeing - Caring for Gagana Tokelau and lea faka-Tonga in secondary education in Aotearoa New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Prof. David Crabbe)
*2017-2021 Minh Ta - Enhancing Learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence via Project Based Learning in a Language Course at a University in Vietnam (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*2016-2021 Kai Liu (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, VUW Travel Grant Award Winner) - Identity Construction Online: Identities and Ideologies in Reader Comments in Online News Fora (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2016-2020 Mohammed Nofal (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, VUW Travel Grant Award Winner) – Multilingual Practices and Identity Negotiation among Multilingual Heritage Language Learners in New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2015-2020 Thi Phuong Thao Tran (Vietnamese Government PhD Scholarship Recipient, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection in Vietnam) – Using TBLT to Enhance the Intercultural Competence of Vietnamese University Students (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*2015-2019 Alice Patrick – Non-Māori Teaching Te Reo Māori in English Medium Primary Classrooms: He Waka Eke Noa (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Karena Kelly)
*2015-2019 Shelley Dawson (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, English Speaking Union Prize Winner, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection in France, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner) – Language Learner Identities: Moving between National Contexts (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2015-2019 Emily Greenbank (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) – Negotiating Employability: Refugees in New Zealand (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2014-2016 Khadij Gharibi (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, Victoria Doctoral Submission Scholarship Recipient, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection, Travel Grant Award Winner for the Bridging Language Acquisition and Language Policy Symposium in Lund, Sweden, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner) – Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition, and Maintenance of Young Heritage Speakers’ Family Language (co-supervisor with Associate Prof. Frank Boers)
MA Thesis Students
*Nov. 2022-2023 Paula Arkenstyen - Are 'they' included yet? Casting a queer eye on tertiary English language provision in New Zealand (60 point dissertation)
*2020-2022 John Goodall - Critical Pedagogy in a Chinese Transnational University: Challenges and Possibilities (120 point thesis, winner of ALANZ best MA thesis award)
*2020-2021 Apsara Wimalasiri - Identity Negotiation of Multilingual English Language Teachers in New Zealand - A Multiple Case Study (120 point thesis)
*2018-2020 Leitu Parsons - A Qualitative Study into Samoan Language Maintenance and the Relationship between Language Shift and Wellbeing (90 point dissertation)
*2016-2017 Kaitlyn Smith (Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, Australia National University Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, VUW MA Scholarship Recipient) – An Examination of Language Attitudes in the New Zealand Deaf Community (120 point thesis)
*2015-2016 Juliet Kennedy (Rewi Alley Scholarship Winner) – Investigating Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching and its Role in Second Language Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language (90 point dissertation)
Honours Students
*2017 Nur Amiratullyana Gazali - The Linguistic Landscape in UEM Sunrise Developed Projects in Nusajaya; Linguistic Landscapes Directed Reading
*2016 Zac Doar (VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) - Generational Talk in New Zealand Job Advertisements
*2016 Caitlin Andrews (VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) - I'm Game If You Are: Gamer Identities through In-Game Talk
*2014 Sophie Barr (Ian Gordon Prize Winner) – Te Reo Māori in the Classroom: An Inquiry into Language Policy, Teachers’ Attitudes and Resourcing in New Zealand Primary Schools
Summer Scholars
*2016-2017 Madeline Ash - Examining a New Framework for Multilingual Education
*2014-2015 Kaitlyn Smith (Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, Australia National University Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, VUW MA Scholarship Recipient) – Regional Gender Ideologies & Narratives of Multilingual Investment
*2020-2024 Yixuan Jing (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient) - Case Study of School Based EFL Professional Development for TBLT through Lesson Study in Rural China (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*Oct 2021-2022 (deceased) Apsara Wimalasiri (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient; Winner of the VUW Applied Linguistics Prize) - Singhalese and Samoan heritage language education in New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Sadat Muaiava)
*2017-2021 Juliet Kennedy (Rewi Alley Scholarship Winner, Dean's List) - Alofa ki te tamā manu: Language, culture, identity, and wellbeing - Caring for Gagana Tokelau and lea faka-Tonga in secondary education in Aotearoa New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Prof. David Crabbe)
*2017-2021 Minh Ta - Enhancing Learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence via Project Based Learning in a Language Course at a University in Vietnam (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*2016-2021 Kai Liu (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, VUW Travel Grant Award Winner) - Identity Construction Online: Identities and Ideologies in Reader Comments in Online News Fora (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2016-2020 Mohammed Nofal (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, VUW Travel Grant Award Winner) – Multilingual Practices and Identity Negotiation among Multilingual Heritage Language Learners in New Zealand (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2015-2020 Thi Phuong Thao Tran (Vietnamese Government PhD Scholarship Recipient, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection in Vietnam) – Using TBLT to Enhance the Intercultural Competence of Vietnamese University Students (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Jonathan Newton)
*2015-2019 Alice Patrick – Non-Māori Teaching Te Reo Māori in English Medium Primary Classrooms: He Waka Eke Noa (Primary supervisor; 2nd supervisor - Dr. Karena Kelly)
*2015-2019 Shelley Dawson (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, English Speaking Union Prize Winner, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection in France, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner) – Language Learner Identities: Moving between National Contexts (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2015-2019 Emily Greenbank (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) – Negotiating Employability: Refugees in New Zealand (2nd supervisor; Primary supervisor - Associate Prof. Meredith Marra)
*2014-2016 Khadij Gharibi (VUW PhD Scholarship Recipient, Victoria Doctoral Submission Scholarship Recipient, Faculty Research Grant Recipient for Data Collection, Travel Grant Award Winner for the Bridging Language Acquisition and Language Policy Symposium in Lund, Sweden, VUW International Travel Grant Award Winner) – Incomplete Acquisition, Attrition, and Maintenance of Young Heritage Speakers’ Family Language (co-supervisor with Associate Prof. Frank Boers)
MA Thesis Students
*Nov. 2022-2023 Paula Arkenstyen - Are 'they' included yet? Casting a queer eye on tertiary English language provision in New Zealand (60 point dissertation)
*2020-2022 John Goodall - Critical Pedagogy in a Chinese Transnational University: Challenges and Possibilities (120 point thesis, winner of ALANZ best MA thesis award)
*2020-2021 Apsara Wimalasiri - Identity Negotiation of Multilingual English Language Teachers in New Zealand - A Multiple Case Study (120 point thesis)
*2018-2020 Leitu Parsons - A Qualitative Study into Samoan Language Maintenance and the Relationship between Language Shift and Wellbeing (90 point dissertation)
*2016-2017 Kaitlyn Smith (Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, Australia National University Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, VUW MA Scholarship Recipient) – An Examination of Language Attitudes in the New Zealand Deaf Community (120 point thesis)
*2015-2016 Juliet Kennedy (Rewi Alley Scholarship Winner) – Investigating Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching and its Role in Second Language Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language (90 point dissertation)
Honours Students
*2017 Nur Amiratullyana Gazali - The Linguistic Landscape in UEM Sunrise Developed Projects in Nusajaya; Linguistic Landscapes Directed Reading
*2016 Zac Doar (VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) - Generational Talk in New Zealand Job Advertisements
*2016 Caitlin Andrews (VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient) - I'm Game If You Are: Gamer Identities through In-Game Talk
*2014 Sophie Barr (Ian Gordon Prize Winner) – Te Reo Māori in the Classroom: An Inquiry into Language Policy, Teachers’ Attitudes and Resourcing in New Zealand Primary Schools
Summer Scholars
*2016-2017 Madeline Ash - Examining a New Framework for Multilingual Education
*2014-2015 Kaitlyn Smith (Ian Gordon Prize Winner, VUW Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, Australia National University Summer Research Scholarship Recipient, VUW MA Scholarship Recipient) – Regional Gender Ideologies & Narratives of Multilingual Investment