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Research students' topics in the area of Language and Culture

Current students

Venus Adeli
The use of English words and phrases in German and its impact on cultural and social identity (behaviour)

Asma Al-Faradhi Khan
What are the teaching and learning factors effecting young children learning their mother-tongue or a new language ‘officially’ in Tower Hamlets schools?

Yu-chiao Chung
An investigation into the Relevance of Emotional and Family Factors on Learning Mandarin as a Second and Foreign Language

Nikoula Floka
Language maintenance in three generations of Greek Cypriots in London

Gerard Gretsch
TEO – (More than) a tool for making meaning and for language learning in a multilingual classroom

Aminul Hoque
Identity in Question – Third Generation Bangladeshis from East London

Jérôme Jaminet
Dealing with a linguistic chameleon effect

Amoafi Kwapong
Using indigenous languages and story as a pedagogic device in Ghanaian Schools

Soile Pietikainen
Critical social circumstances for maintenance or loss of Finnish as a minority language after entry to primary education in England

Bina Radia-Bond
Mixed relationships and the negotiation of cultural dissonance: Getting the best of both or falling between two cultural stools?

Mahera Ruby
Family Jigsaws. Intergenerational learning between grandmothers, mothers and children in Bangladeshi families in East London

Sachie Saito
An Investigation into Intercultural Misunderstandings among Japanese and Non Japanese People in University Settings in London and Tokyo

Aspasia Simpsi
Drama in the Greek community schools of London: Performing or Learning? – Teachers’ and parents’ perspectives and alternative proposals in using Drama for teaching Greek as a second language

Graduates (successful PhDs)

Hayat Al-Khatib
Bilingual performance and specifically language alternation in informal contexts

Olga Barradas ESRC awarded 1998
Portuguese Students in London Schools: Patterns of participation in community language classes and patterns of educational achievement

Joan Bursch
Mind the Gap! Children’s Domestic Writings and their implications for educational practice

Harold Castaneda
Positioning Masculinities and Femininities in Preschool EFL Education

Yangguang Chen ORS Awarded 2000
The Negotiation of Equality of Opportunity for Emergent Bilingual Children in the English Mainstream Classroom

Jean Conteh
Success in Diversity: Culture, Knowledge and Learning in Ethnically-Diverse Primary Classrooms

Hong Ding
Living Through Ambiguity. The Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Students in London

Rosemary Drury
Young Bilingual Children Learning at Home and at School

Chris Kearney
Education: The Monkey’s Mask: Memory, Narrative, Voice

Clare Kelly
Learning to be Literate: young children’s experiences of learning to read and write at home and at school

Claudine Kirsch
English primary children learning foreign languages at home and at school: A sociocultural approach to the development of language learning strategies

Patricia Mertin
The Role of Culture in Second Language Learning with Special Reference to the Japanese Students at the International School of Dusseldorf, Germany

Aura Mor-Sommerfeld
Text and Context: Developing Literacy in a New Language through Children’s Literature. A Comparative Study

Efstathia Pantazi
Teaching in Multicultural Societies: The theories and practice of teachers in Greek Community Schools

Leena Robertson
Early Literacy in Parallel Literacy Classes: Young bilingual children learning to read in English, Urdu and Classical Arabic

Keang-Ieng (Peggy) Vong
Towards a creative Early Childhood program in Zhuhai and Macau, the People’s Republic of China