Our research students

Seyyed Allah Veysi

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Kaspian Barratt

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Tiia Ladvelin

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Renato Pavlekovic

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Explicit and implicit knowledge and their interface; Aptitude for implicit and explicit learning; Measures of cognitive individual differences; Linear and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling; Factor analysis and structural equation modeling; Unsupervised learning (k-means and hierarchical) Research interests: Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Language aptitude and working memory in SLA; Reaction time measures in applied linguistics; Measures of explicit and implicit language aptitude; Statistical models in linguistics

Elnaz Afsharmehr

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Amal Al Almashham

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Faisal Al Fadhil

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ahlam Al Nahawi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Nora Alajmi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Abdullah Aldhali

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mohammad Alenezi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ali Alhartomy

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Raed Aljuhani

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Seyyed Allah Veysi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Bayan Almghamis

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Leena Almohaimeed

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Essa Alnashib

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Areej Alnefaie

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Amani Alotaibi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Roaa Alothman

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Abdulkhalig Alqarni

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Alaa Alqarni

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Sarah Alqarni

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Saeed Alshahrani

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Bader Alshammari

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Rawan Alshatwi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Abdulaziz Alsudays

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Denise Amankwah

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Adeyemi Awomodu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Kaspian Barratt

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Hind Binsanad

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fiona Brewer

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fernando Bustos Lopez

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Affect in foreign language learning and teaching; Individual differences in second language learning; Foreign language teachers and learners' emotions

Shonica D'Anjou

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Xiaoduan Fan

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Elisa Frimpong

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Yilin Gao

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Intersection of Neo-Confucianism and gender roles in period dramas; Media discourse on domestic workers (baomu); The portrayal of women's agency in post-socialist China; Class and gender hierarchies in Chinese media narratives; Media discourse on leftover women and marriage expectation Research interests: Gender, Class, and Media Representations of Domestic Workers in Contemporary China

Gertrude Grumah

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Annie Hardwicke

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Caroline Hawthorne

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Shiguang Hu

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Stephanie King

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mihao Li

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Michel Mason

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Education for Sustainability ; Key competencies for sustainability; Academic skills; Sustainable Essex Awards; Embedding sustainability into curricular Research interests: Embedding the SDGs into TEFL and TESOL: A pilot study; The Multiplier Effect: Embedding the SDGs for transformative sustainable education; Lecturers’ perceptions of student writers: Implications for academic literacy and EAP; Perspectives on academic writing: L1 and L2 students’ experience within Healthcare and Hospitality Foundation degree programmes ; Reflections on Welcome Week: The challenges mature students face when learning and making sense of academic conventions

Alaa Moafa

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Nur Mohd Yasin

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Sam Nartus

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Mzati Nkolokosa

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Cognitive linguistics; Conceptualisation of distress; Metaphor and metonymy; Relationship between language, mind and culture

Renato Pavlekovic

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Ask me about: Explicit and implicit knowledge and their interface; Aptitude for implicit and explicit learning; Measures of cognitive individual differences; Linear and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling; Factor analysis and structural equation modeling; Unsupervised learning (k-means and hierarchical) Research interests: Explicit and implicit knowledge and learning; Language aptitude and working memory in SLA; Reaction time measures in applied linguistics; Measures of explicit and implicit language aptitude; Statistical models in linguistics

Khalid Qasemi

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Girindra Reswari

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Fatima Srour

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Catherine Taylor

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Anugraha Thorat

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Jwana Tofiq

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics

Matilde Trucco

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Language and Linguistics