
The Language on the Move team, sketched by Sadami Konchi
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Research for higher degrees such as PhD and MRes constitutes a major part of our work. Our team conducts research related to intercultural communication, language learning, and multilingualism in the contexts of migration and globalization.
With the exception of some theses under embargo due to publishing contracts, our PhD and MRes theses are openly available and can be accessed through the links below.
Mentoring novice researchers so that they can thrive throughout their academic journeys is central to the mission of the Language on the Move team. Our reflections on mentoring, research, professional development, scholarship, and all aspects of academic life are available here.
- Abdullah, Tazin. 2024. “Observe overall cleanliness and sound mannerisms at all times!” – Regulating Australian Muslims in mosques and Islamic prayer spaces. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Alkhalil, Samar F. A. 2018. Promoting English in Saudi Arabia: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Advertisements for Private English Language Teaching Institutes. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Alshammri, Awatif. 2017. Evaluating the Representations of Cultural Elements and Identity Options in English Language Textbooks used in Saudi Arabia. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Bai, Gegentuul Hongye. 2018. Performing linguistic and cultural authenticity: Contemporary Mongolian wedding ceremonies in Inner Mongolia. Macquarie University.
- Benz, Victoria. 2017. Bilingual childcare: Hitches, hurdles, and hopes. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- Bodis, Agnes. 2021. Multilingual students at monolingual universities: Language ideological debates about international students in Australia. Macquarie University.
- Butorac, Donna. 2011. Imagined Identity, Remembered Self: Settlement Language Learning and the Negotiation of Gendered Subjectivity. Macquarie University.
- Chang, Grace Chu-Lin. 2016. Language learning, academic achievement, and overseas experience: A sociolinguistic study of Taiwanese students in Australian higher education. Macquarie University.
- Chang, Jackie. 2004. Ideologies of English Teaching and Learning in Taiwan. University of Sydney.
- Chen, Xiaoxiao. 2013. Opening China to the Tourist Gaze: Representations of Chinese People and Languages in Newspaper Travel Writing since the 1980s. Macquarie University.
- Cho, Jinhyun. 2016. Interpreting English Language Ideologies in Korea: Dreams vs. Realities. Macquarie University.
- Dibaj, Farzad. 2008. Vocabulary Learning: Second and third language learners in comparison. Macquarie University.
- Farrell, Emily J. 2008. Negotiating identity: discourses of migration and belonging. Macquarie University.
- Fernando, Warnakulasuriya Melanie Thamara. (2019). Multilingualism in the public library: an exploration of the collections of five Sydney libraries. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Gerber, Livia. 2016. “We really believe that we have given our children a gift”: Discourses on bilingual child-rearing in an online parenting forum. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Grey, Alexandra. 2017. How do language rights affect minority languages in China? An ethnographic investigation of the Zhuang minority language under conditions of rapid social change. Macquarie University.
- Grossi, Vittoria. 2012. Ways of working and ways of speaking: a linguistic ethnography of migrant IT professionals in Australian workplaces. Macquarie University.
- Khan, Muhammad Ali. 2012. Social Meanings of Language Policy and Practices: A Critical, Linguistic Ethnographic Study of four Schools in Pakistan. Lancaster University.
- Kim, Sunjoo. 2024. More than meets the eye: indexical analysis on Korean address terms in subtitle translation. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Li, Jia. 2017. Social reproduction and migrant education: A critical sociolinguistic ethnography of Burmese students’ learning experiences at a border high school in China. Macquarie University.
- Motaghi-Tabari, Shiva. 2016. Bidirectional Language Learning in Migrant Families. Macquarie University.
- Nakane, Ikuko. 2003. Silence in Japanese-Australian classroom interaction: perceptions and performance. University of Sydney.
- Neelam, Madiha. 2022. Muslim women as speakers of English. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
- O’Neill, Gary. 2018. Multilingualism and occluded diversities within the superdiverse conditions of the United Arab Emirates: A study of the multiple language resources, practices and ideologies of young Emirati women. Macquarie University.
- Oriyama, Kaya. 2000. Development and Maintenance of Minority Language Literacy in Japanese–English Bilingual Children in Australia. University of Sydney.
- Pasassung, Nikolaus. 2003. Teaching English in an “acquisition-poor environment”: an ethnographic example of a remote Indonesian EFL classroom. University of Sydney.
- Quick, Brynn. 2024. How are Language Barriers Bridged in Hospitals? A Systematic Review. (MRes), Macquarie University.
- Rühlmann, Liesa. 2023. Race, Language, and Subjectivation: A Raciolinguistic Perspective on Schooling Experiences in Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer.
- Smith-Khan, Laura. 2018. Contesting credibility in Australian refugee visa decision making and public discourse. Macquarie University.
- Takahashi, Kimie. 2006. Language desire: a critical ethnography of Japanese women learning English in Australia. University of Sydney.
- Tenedero, Pia. 2022. Communication that counts: Language practice and ideology in globalized accounting. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- Tetteh, Vera W. 2015. Language, Education and Settlement: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography on, with, and for Africans in Australia. Macquarie University.
- Torsh, Hanna I. 2020. Linguistic Intermarriage in Australia: Between Pride and Shame. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wachidah, Siti. 2001. Output planning and EFL learning autonomy: a case in a Javanese-dominated general high school (Sekolah Menengah Umum) in Indonesia. University of Sydney.
- Wang, Yining. 2020. The heritage language maintenance of Chinese migrant children and their families. Macquarie University.
- Yang, Hongyan. 2013. Naxi, Chinese and English: Multilingualism in Lijiang. Macquarie University.
- Zhang, Jie. 2011. Language policy and planning for the 2008 Beijing Olympics: an investigation of the discursive construction of an Olympic city and a global population. Macquarie University.