Thesis Section

Introduction:

Every year countless excellent MA and Doctoral dissertations are written and submitted to University departments all over the world. Often they are read only by supervisors and examiners and are soon forgotten. Some students transform their dissertations into academic articles, but not all dissertations are easily transformed into a very different genre of academic writing. This section of the Asian EFL Journal provides a forum for those who would like to share their dissertation work with a wider audience without radically changing the format. The dissertations published here have been refereed and go through a similar review process to the articles published in the main section of the journal.

Thesis Index.

July 2009
Murphy, Robert.S. Models for EFL Theory and Methodology Derived From an SiR Based Pilot Study on Japanese Cognitive Development.

July 2009
Hong Wang. An Implementation study of the English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Policies in the Chinese Tertiary Context.

July 2009
Rapley, Douglas J. Policy and reality: The teaching of oral communication by Japanese teachers of English in public junior high schools in Kurashiki City, Japan.

July 2009
Pigott, Julian. Toward classroom-friendly models of motivation: A data-led investigation into student perceptions of motivating and demotivating classroom factors, and the relationship between student orientations and preferred classroom activities

July 2009
Nguyen ThỊ Thu Nga. Teachers’ Beliefs about Teaching Reading Strategies and Their Classroom Practices: A Case Study of Viet Ba High School

June 2009
Mahnaz Hall. Phonological Characteristics of Farsi Speakers of English and L1 Australian English  Speakers' Perceptions of Proficiency

February 2009
Crosthwaite, Peter. The Effects of Assessment on Stakeholders within an Elementary- Grade EFL Programme 

September 2008
Makoto Abe. Exploring the Role of Model Essays in the IELTS Writing Test: A Feedback Tool

July 2008
Muhammad Tanveer. Investigation of the factors that cause language anxiety for ESL/EFL learners in learning speaking skills and the influence it casts on communication in the target language. Also in SWF

June 2008
Naashia Mohamed. An Exploratory Study of the Interplay between Teacher's Beliefs, Instructional Practices & Professional Development.

May 2008.
Jui-Fang Chang. The Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in Taiwan

February 2008
Hamid Ali Khan. A Needs Analysis of Pakistani State Boarding Schools Secondary Level Students for Adoption of Communicative Language Teaching SWF Version

January 2008
Tsailing Liang. Implementing Cooperative Learning in EFL Teaching: Process and Effects

November 2007
Her, Jia Huey. The Globalization of English: Its Impact on English Language Education in the Tertiary Education Sector in Taiwan

October 2007
Lai Man Wai Conttia The Influence of Learner Motivation on Developing Autonomous Learning in an English-for-Specific-Purposes Course

Noboru Sakai. The Theoretical Study of Motivational Transfer and Entertainment Use in Self-study CALL

Watterson, Matthew. A micro-study of English as an international lingua franca in a Korean context

June 2007
Nugrahenny T Zacharias. A survey of tertiary teachers’ beliefs about English Language Teaching in Indonesia with regard to the role of English as a global language.

June 2007
Ma, Xiaou-yan. Teacher Talk and EFL in University Classrooms

Sulaiman Hasan H. Kashoa. Motivation among Learners of English in the Secondary Schools on the Eastern Coast of the UAE

May 2007
Masood Siyyari. A Comparative Study of the Effect of Implicit and Delayed Explicit focus on Form on Iranian Learners EFL

April 2007
Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Refusals Of Requests By Australian Native Speakers Of English And Vietnamese Learners Of English

April 2007
Wang Cheng-jun. Designing Communicative Tasks for College English Courses PDF

November 2006
Bown, Andrew. The Usefulness of Guided Feedback in a Web based IELTs Reading Programme for Arab Learners PDF

Dr. Hayo Reinders. The Effects of Different Task Types on L2 Learners' Intake and Acquisition of Two Grammatical Structures (PDF)

May 2006
Caine, Nick. EFL Examination Washback in Japan: Investigating the Effects of Oral Assessment on Teaching and Learning (PDF)

February 2006
Norman, Dion. Using STAD in an EFL Elementary School Classroom in South Korea: Effects on Student Achievement, Motivation, and Attitudes Toward Cooperative Learning. (PDF)

January 2006
Nguyen Thuy Minh. Criticising and Responding to Criticism in a Foreign language: a Study of vietnamese Learners of English (PDF)

November 2005.
Xiuping Li. 2005. An Analysis of Chinese EFL Learners' Beliefs About The Role Of Rote Learning In Vocabulary Learning Strategies (PDF)

October 2005.
Litz, David. 2005. Textbook Evaluation and ELT Management: A South Korean Case Study (PDF)

July 2005.
Muller, Theron. 2005. The Influence Of Situation On Languages Of Cooperation: How Movie Language Coding Influences Audience Cooperation In Japan (PDF)

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