Anwei Feng

Professor in Education

Doctorate Students Completed

Below is a list of doctorate students I supervised as first or sole supervisor in recent years. They do not include the PhDs and EdDs for whom I was second supervisor. They have all successfully completed their degree studies.

  • Marcia Lemin SHEN (EdD) – Thesis title: Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence of Home Students in a Multicultural Class in a University in Eastern China (completed: 09/22)
  • Lily Lili Zhang (EdD) – Thesis title: Developing Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence via a Cultural Awareness-oriented Curriculum in a High School in Ningbo: a Practitioner Research Project. (Completed: 04/22)
  • David Cibo Zhou (EdD) – Thesis title: Investigating CLIL effects on learners’ academic performance in a Chinese tertiary education programme. (Completed: 06/22)
  • May Wanyu Wang (EdD) – Thesis title: Impact of recent reforms on English teaching in vocational education in Ningbo. (Completed: 07/20)
  • Catherine Lin LI (EdD) – Thesis title: Motivation Trajectories of Chinese L2 Learners in a Sino-Canadian Study-abroad Program – A Longitudinal Study. (Completed: 04/20)
  • Jacob Finifrock (PhD) – Thesis title: Trilingual Education in the Kam-Speaking Region of Guizhou: Policy, Praxis, and Perceptions. (Completed: 04/18)
  • Murphy Ma (EdD) – Thesis title: Low Achievement in English Language Learning: A Case Study of a Chinese Tier-3 University under the Lens of Complex System Theory. (Completed: 03/18)
  • Ping Wang (EdD) – Thesis title: An Evaluative Study of the Effectiveness of Content-Based Instruction as an EFL Approach in China’s Tertiary Education. (Completed: 01/18)
  • Yang Feng (PhD) – Thesis title: Early Parent-Child Reading: An Experimental Study for Developing Chinese Children’s Bilingual Competence (Completed: 02/17)
  • Candy, Ping Zhang (EdD) – Thesis title: Evaluating Trilingual Language Teacher Training Programmes for Minority Dominated Regions in Xinjiang: Current practice and Challenges (Completed: 01/17)
  • Xenia Xiao Xu (PhD) – Thesis title: Exploring the educational ideas and practices of UK transnational education from the perspective of citizenship. (Completed: 03/14)
  • Torka Joyce Abu (EdD) – Thesis title: Mantesurian Education in Nursaries in England: Two Case Studies. (Completed: 11/12).
  • Jonathan Wong (EdD) – Thesis title: Use of Formulaic Sequences in Task-based Oral Production of Chinese: A Comparative Study of Native and Non-native Speaker’s Outputs. (Completed: 10/12).
  • Kwan Yi Wong (EdD) – Thesis title: Study Tours Taken by Hong Kong Secondary Students to Mainland China: Effects on their Identity and Motivation to learn Putonghua. (Completed: 05/12)
  • Linda Yang Hui (PhD) – Thesis Title: Using films to develop intercultural competence in English language teaching. (Completed: 05/11)
  • Lihong Wang (PhD) – Thesis Title: Chinese Postgraduate Students in a British University: Their Learning Experiences and Learning Beliefs (Completed: 03/10)
  • Chu Chu Kan, Ivory (EdD) – Thesis Title: Cross-cultural adjustment of native English teachers in Hong Kong: an investigative study (Completed: 07/09)
  • Shu Hsin Chen (PhD) – Thesis Title: Intercultural team teaching: A study of local and foreign EFL teachers in Taiwan (Completed: 05/09)
  • Abdul Talib Mohamed Hashim (PhD) – Thesis Title: Intercultural education for a multicultural society: A case study of perceptions and responses to cultural diversity in a national primary school in Malaysia (Completed: 03/09)
  • Kurt Wai On LAW (EdD) – Thesis Title: Translation students’ use of dictionaries: A Hong Kong case study of Chinese to English translation (Completed: 12/08)
  • Maggie Koong (EdD) – Thesis Title: Bilingual preschool education: A comparative study between Hong Kong and Shanghai (Competed: 03/08)
  • Thomas Harrington (EdD) – Thesis Title: An ethnographic investigation of students’ and parents’ perceptions of their international school experience (Completed: 10/07)
  • Julia Hsu (EdD) – Thesis Title: A cooperative task-based learning approach to motivating low achieving readers of English in a Taiwanese University (Completed: 08/07)
  • Ruth Ming Wong (EdD) – Thesis Title: Factors affecting motivation to learn English: The perspectives of newly-arrived Hong Kong students (Completed: 02/07)
  • Marshall Yin (EdD) – Thesis Title: Initiating competence in intercultural communication – New approaches for Chinese learners in a University English language course (Completed: 09/2006)

In addition, I supervised an average of 4-5 MA students to completion at Durham University, University of Bangor, and University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Doctorate Students under Supervision

with me as first supervisor

  • Guangni CHEN (PhD) – Thesis on translanguaging and multimodality in third language acquisition
  • Danxia LING (PhD) – Thesis on multilingual education in the Belt-Road context
  • Peter Wenbi Wang (EdD) – Thesis on third language acquisition
  • Trancy Xiaofang Li (EdD) – Thesis on using simple readers to enhance students’ motivation in learning English and to raise their cultural awareness
  • Angela Xiaofeng Jiang (EdD) – Thesis on parent-teacher partnership
  • Annie Qian Xia (EdD) – Thesis on ICC development in MTI courses
  • Tingting Zhang (EdD) – Thesis on Washback Effect of English on English Language Teaching in High School Classrooms in Zhejiang
  • Julie Ying Zhu (EdD) – Thesis on needs analysis of hotel English course of higher vocational colleges in Nanjing
  • Susie Yonghua Chen (EdD) – Thesis on internationalizing English teaching in cooperative 5-year vocational education in China
  • Dennis Bin RAO (EdD) – Thesis on professional development in ICC for College English teachers
  • Judy Xiaomei ZHU (EdD) – Thesis on Sino-German transnational education
  • Steven Pingjiang ZHAO (EdD) – Thesis on teacher cognition of blended learning