Pengchong Anthony Zhang

Masters, PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered: 

• Classroom-based learning and second/foreign language pedagogy
• Multimedia enhanced second/foreign language learning
• The development of vocabulary knowledge
• The role of individual learner differences in language learning
• Advanced quantitative methods in second/foreign language research

Current and Recent PhD and EdD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:

Current (as first supervisor)

• Ye, Jiarun:Digital vocabulary learning: The role of self-regulation and learning approaches (Second supervisor: Dr Rowena Kasprowicz)

Current (as second supervisor):

• Areen Badri: Teaching Vocabulary through Listening: An experimental study with Saudi Visually Impaired EFL learners (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
• Nick Davies: Examining the effects of mathematics workshops on pre-service teachers’ mathematics anxiety (First supervisor: Professor Elizabeth McCrum)
• Gail Hickman: An exploration of the impact of a self-regulatory strategy intervention and a morphology awareness instruction on English vocabulary acquisition and motivation of English second language learners (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
• Lara Wilkinson: Accountability, values and school leadership: bridging accountability obligation and professional values (First supervisor: Dr Karen Jones)
• Yang, Huining: The development of learners’ listening comprehension, self-efficacy, and anxiety within an informal digital learning of English listening (IDLEL) context: Examining the role of frequency, diversity of use, and self-regulation (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)

Completed

• James Bury: Developing and enhancing communicative competence among foreign language learners in Japan (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)