2017 - 2018 awards
Winning dissertation
Matthew Ellman from University of Birmingham |“You’re more likely to pick up on stuff”: Evaluating the impact of video evidence on English language teachers’ post-observation
Special commendations
Claire Philip from University of Stirling | Positive and negative written corrective feedback: A mixed-method investigation of EAP teachers’ word choices.
Laura Su from Bath Spa University | Identifying dyslexia in children learning English as an additional language: primary school teachers’
perceptions of the main challenges. A Somerset study.
Yushan Xie from University of Cambridge | Who do you hang out with? A mixed-methods study on how Chinese students’ social networks relate to their oral proficiency gains during study abroad
Commendations
- Culturally Relevant Materials: An Inquiry into the Role of Faith
Alaa Dean Alzalam, University of Hull
- The Intelligibility of Korean English Pronunciation from a Lingua Franca Perspective
Justin Barrass, University of Oxford
- Reading Strategies in an EFL Context: A Mixed Methods Research Synthesis
Steven Bedle, University of Glasgow
- The use of Concept Checking Questions in the EFL classroom: Reflections on the CELTA experience
Karolina Florkowska, Kingston University, London
- A 10-Week Needs-Informed Theme-Based Pre Sessional Course for PG Applied Linguistics and TESOL Students Studying at a UK University
Maria Hussain, University of Sheffield
- Attitudes towards Digital Game-based Learning of Chinese Primary School English Teachers
Chengxin Li, University of Edinburgh
- An Evaluation of Pragmatic Elements in University EFL Textbooks in China
Jiaying Li, University of Liverpool
- Exploring the Relationship between Learners’ Public English-Speaking Anxiety and their Speaking Performance in Class with Chinese ESL Students
Ying Liu, University of York
- Fluency in the EFL Chilean classrooms: To what extent do teachers and textbooks promote oral fluency?
Astrid Morrison, University of Reading
- Direct Entry into the Penultimate Year of Undergraduate Study: Exploring Perceptions of Transition and Oral Communication
Rowan Murray, Lancaster University
- Language Learning and Knowledge Building in a Collaborative Virtual Environment: An Autoethnographic Investigation
Guilherme Pacheco, The University of Chichester (in collaborative partnership with the Norwich Institute for Language Education)
- Developing Classroom Interactional Competence through a Teacher Development Workshop
Lauren Perkins, King’s College London
- Teaching English in the KTSP Curriculum and 2013 Curriculum Simultaneously: A Case Study of “A Senior High School in Semarang”, Central Java, Indonesia
Girindra Putri Ardana Reswari, Queen's University, Belfast
- The effect of school policy and practice on motivation in teachers working in a private EFL school in the UK
Helen Rodd, Canterbury Christ Church University
- English Language Policy in German Public Sector Higher Education
Ute Schäfer-Wilke, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London
- Examining Washback on Learning from a Sociocultural Perspective: The Case of a Graded Approach to English Language Testing in Hong Kong Chi
Lai Tsang, University College London