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Dr Alan Libert

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OfficeMC 106, McMullin Building

Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions4
Total current UoN PhD EFTSL0.9

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

CommencedProposed
Completion
ProgramSupervisor TypeResearch Title
20112015PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorThe Influence of High Power Distance in the Student-Teacher Relationships and it's Effects on the Proficiency of the Reading Skill: a Case Study of Saudi Students in the EFL Classrooms at Albaha University in Saudi Arabia
20112015PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorSegmental Oppositions in English Coronal Obstruents
20102014PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorTopics in the Grammar of Zahrani Spoken Arabic
20102014PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorESL Vocabulary Teaching Strategy: The Effects of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches on the Acquisition of ESL Vocabulary for Chinese University Students

Past Supervision

YearProgramSupervisor TypeResearch Title
2013PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorWord Structure in Kisa
2011PhD (Linguistics)Co-SupervisorThe Impact of Nominal Anglicisms on the Morphology of Modern Spoken German
2009PhD (Linguistics)Principal SupervisorNaturalism, Indeterminacy, Analogy, Connectionism and Linguistic Theory: A Philosophy of Psychobiolinguistics
2007PhD (Philosophy)Sole SupervisorNatural Semantics: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Language, Comprising an Examination of the Possibility of a Theory of Grammatical Semantics, and the Development of a Translation Theory Based upon a Reconciliation between Tarski's Truth Theory and Grammatical Semantics or How Meanings are Made in Nat
2005PhD (Linguistics)Principal SupervisorSyllabic Consonants in English