The Master's Dissertation Awards promote achievements of students on UK Master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on ELT. Find out which dissertations won or received special commendations this year.

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2024 – 2025 Awards

Winning dissertation

Chathuska Undugoda, Coventry University

An explorative study of classroom practices for cultural inclusion and integration of refugee and migrant students in ESOL adult classes in the UK

Special commendations

Sofía Consolandich Perdomo, University of Bath

Multigrades, multi challenges: Exploring remote teachers' adaptations when teaching multigrade rural groups within the context of Uruguay's Ceibal en Inglés programme

Rabeya Habib, University College London
Exploring L2 temporal and dialogic fluency in relation to cognitive fluency through a mixed method study: Unlocking the potential of humanAI and human paired discussions

Sandy Millin, NILE (University of Chichester)

An investigation into the production of a competency framework for language learning materials writing

Commendations

Mengdie Zhou, University of Warwick

Translanguaging in EFL classrooms: Teachers’ practices and attitudes

Brett Seagrave, University of Leeds

A feasibility test for a bottom-up orientated self-study listening app in intermediate EFL learners

Thi Hoang Ha Bui, University of Sussex

Vietnamese EFL Teachers’ perceptions of using generative artificial intelligence tools in lesson planning

Saba Azimi, Aston University

The marketisation of English courses in British universities: Analysing course description pages of TESOL prospectuses on UCAS

Leonardo Marinho Dias Lima, University of Exeter

Exploring TESOL teachers' perceptions and utilisation of artificial intelligence in English as a Foreign Language classrooms in Pernambuco, Brazil

Janine Plantilla, University of Birmingham

Effect of iconic decorative typefaces on pseudoword retention

Cerise Louisa Andrews, University of Stirling

‘Languages’ in language classrooms; how do language teachers describe their experiences of the use of language(s) in their teaching practices?

Hasan Naqi, Manchester Metropolitan University

Perceptions of secondary stage EFL teachers on the use of multimodal input for learning vocabulary

Ha Linh Nguyen, University of Strathclyde

Playing to learn: Perceptions of gamification among Vietnamese EFL highschool students and teachers in the post-pandemic era

Ridmi Handapangoda, Lancaster University

Scene behind the unseen: Special-adjustments for visually impaired students at L2-English reading tests in Sri Lankan university-context

Rebecca Louise Maria Funabashi, King's College London

Generative AI in academic writing: English for Academic Purposes practitioners’ perceptions and teaching practice

Weihao Zhao, University of Liverpool

The role of pragmalinguistic recasting in e-mail requests: A study of Chinese learners in the UK

Khoa Cong Anh Le, Nottingham Trent University

A contrastive study about IELTS writing task 2 by Vietnamese learners of English

Angela Palmer, University of St Andrews

A critical evaluation of the online resource ‘Progression Pathways’ through the lens of participatory ESOL, as a teaching tool for encouraging self-reflection and empowerment of forced migrant ESOL learners from a professional background

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