PhD Applied Linguistics

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No.	Name of Students	Country	Title of Thesis/Dissertation	Status of Study	Name of Supervisor/s
1.	Prof. Dr. Riyadi Santosa Professor Faculty of Cultural Sciences; Surakarta, Indonesia Universitas Sebelas Maret, Solo, Indonesia	Indonesia	Forms and Meanings of Conjunctive Relation in Adult, Teenage, and Children Indonesian Popular Magazines and Their Impact on Language Styles: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach	Graduated - 2010	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
2.	Dr. Fadi Maher Saleh Alkhawsawneh Senior lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Translation, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.	Jordan	Metacognitive Vocabulary Strategies in English for Science and Technology among Jordanian University Students	Graduated - 2013	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
3.	Dr. Ali Saleh Ali Alward Senior Lecturer at University of Science and Technology, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen	Yemen	Interlanguage Pragmatics: A Pragmatic Study of Hedging Devices and Intensifiers Employed by Yemeni Arab Learners of English in Academic Essay Writing	Graduated - 2014	Dr. Chua Choon Mooi Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
4.	Dr. Bayatee Dueraman Senior Lecturer at the Southern College of Technology, Nakhon Sitammarat, Thailand.	Thailand	The Development of Writing Skills among English Majors at Two Universities in Thailand	Graduated - 2014	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
5.	Dr. Ameer K. Rasheed English Teacher at an Iraqi International School, Kuala Lumpur	Iraqi	The Effects of Using Authentic Materials on Speaking among Iraqi Secondary School Students in Malaysia	Graduated - 2014	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
6.	Dr. Asmaa Abdulhameed Mohammad Al-Saqqaf Postgraduate Programme Coordinator, Faculty of Psychology and Education and Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)	Yemen	The Relationship between Oral Communication Strategy with Language Motivation and Language Anxiety among Yemeni Postgraduates in Malaysia.	Graduated - 2015	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
7.	Dr. Norma Saad Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages, Civilisation and Philosophy, UUM	Malaysia	A Comparative Study of Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Malay ESL Speakers’ and Native Speakers’ Refusals	Graduated - 2016	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
8.	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wardatul Akmam Din Deputy Director of Centre for Internationalisation and Global Engagement and Associate Professor at Universiti Malaysia Sabah	Malaysia	Integrating Process Writing Approach with Scaffolding Strategies in Developing ESL Writing Skill	Graduated - 2016	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
9.	Dr. Rai Zahoor Assistant Professor at the English Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan. Vehari Campus.	Pakistan	The Effect of Task-Based Language Teaching on Productive Skills of ESL Pakistani Learners	Graduated - 2016	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
10.	Assistant Prof Dr. Nayef Jooma Jooma Department of Western Languages and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey	Syria	The Use of Citation Practices in the Literature Review of PhD Theses by EFL Students in Malaysia	Graduated- 2017	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
11.	Mohammad Husam A. Aziz Alhumsi.	Jordan	The Effect of Phonemic Segmentation on Word Recognition Through the Use of Interactive Whiteboard among Jordanian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Beginning Readers.	Graduated - 2017	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
12.	Salma Hasan Almabrouk Khalifa	Libya	The Effect of Vocabulary Learning Strategies in Enhancing Vocabulary Learning among Secondary School Students In Bani-Walid Libya.	Graduated - 2017	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
13.	Dr. Mohammad Ado Ahmed Head of Department Department of English and Literary Studies Bauchi State University, Gadau. Nigeria.	Nigeria	Language Use of Reconciliation: The Case of Nigerian Syariah-based Courts	Graduated -2018	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
14.	Pimpisa Rattanadilok (deceased in August 2017)	Thailand	Native Language Interference on Students’ Writing of Thai EFL University Learners	Graduated - 2018 Awarded Posthumous	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
15.	Md Kamrul Hasan	Bangladesh	The Correlation and Prediction of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge to Academic Reading Comprehension among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners of Tertiary Level in Bangladesh.	Graduated - 2018	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
16.	Hani Qasem Mohammed Asaad	Yemen	The Roles of Morphological Awareness in Academic Writing through the Mediation of Productive Vocabulary Knowledge among L2 Postgraduate Students	Graduated - 2019	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
17.	Dr. Ghulamullah	Pakistan	The effects of explicit and implicit phonetic and phonological instruction on the intelligibility and comprehensibility: A study of teaching English pronunciation in the Pakistani context	Graduated - 2019	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
18.	Dr. Farhath Unissa Begum	India	The relationship between teacher motivation, self-efficacy and teaching reading comprehension skills: The case of ESL teachers in Hyderabad, India	Graduated - 2019	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
19.	Dr. Muhammad Waleed Shehzad	Pakistan	The roles of self-efficacy and metacognition in reading comprehension among Saudi EFL learners	Graduated - 2019	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Dr. Rafizah binti Mohd Rawian
20.	Dr. Arkan Abdulhassan Nasar Assistant Instructor/ Iraq Ministry of Education	Iraq	Invitation Refusal and Politeness Strategies among Iraqi Arabic Speakers	Graduated - 2020	Dr Norma Saad Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
21.	Wang Fei	China	The Relationship between Language Learning Anxiety and Language Learning Strategy Use with Language Proficiency in Computer-Aided English Language Learning Environment among Tertiary Students in China	Graduated - 2020	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
22.	Melisa Charles Benedict	Malaysia	The Effects of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Use on the Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Performance among L2 Pre-University Students	Graduated - 2021	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
23.	Dr. Ali Alghorbany	Algeria	Second language speaking anxiety and its relationship with emotional intelligence and oral communication competence among ESL learners	Graduated - 2021	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
24.	Vimala a/p Darvmanathan	Malaysia	Social Networking and Students Writing Performance: An Error Analysis Comparing Generations Y and Z	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
25.	Furrakh Abbas	Pakistan	Sociolinguistic Perspective of Attitudes toward a Minority Language in Pakistan: A Case of Siraiki	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
26.	Belbali Abdel Aziz	Algeria	Intercultural Communication in English as a Lingua Franca Context: A Comparative Study Among Malaysian Undergraduates at UUM	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
27.	Samia Tahir	Pakistan	How Social Order and Structure is Imposed and Maintained in Pakistani Society through an Element of Constant Negation: A Mediated Discourse Analysis	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
28.	Tehniyat Rizvi	Pakistan	The Use of Politeness Strategies and Request Strategies by Nurses in Nurse-Patient Interaction in Pakistan Public Hospitals.	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
29.	Mohamad Iqbal Bin Mohamad Zubir	Malaysia	The Analysis of the Language of Ambush Marketing Advertisement : Flouting the Grice's Maxim of Cooperative Principle	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
30.	Eny Haziany Binti Hamzah	Malaysia	The Effects of Vocabulary Learning Strategies on Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension among Low Proficiency ESL Tertiary Students	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin (Former Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin)
31.	Moin Hasan	India	The Use of Scaffolding Approach to Enhance Students' Writing Skills in EFL Situation	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
32.	Zaka-Ur-Rehman	Pakistan	The Effects of Using Humour in Improving Speaking Performance among University Students	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
33.	Afiqah binti Mohamad Afendi	Malaysia	The Impact and Perception of Translanguaging among Vernacular-Primary School Pupils in Learning English at National Secondary School.	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
34.	Noor Aishah binti Idrishah	Malaysia	Communication Apprehension among Malaysian Uniform Personnel	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Siti Jamilah Bidin
35.	Zaman Abed Lafta	Iraq	Psycho-social Issues in Dostoeveky's Crime and Punishment	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
36.	Bajilan Luwaytha Salah Habeeb	Iraq	Interactive Aspects of Miscuing in Net-Texting	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
37.	Javed Iqbal Berki	Pakistan	Representation of Ethnicity in English and Urdu Text Books in Pakistan.	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin Dr Norma Saad
38.	Muhammad Imtiaz S/O Muhammad Yaqoob	Pakistan	Use of Cohesive Devices in PTB English Text Book at Higher Secondary Level	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
39.	Lin, Chaohai	China	A Study on the Comparative Metaphor of Chinese Four-Character Idioms and English Idioms	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin Prof. Madya Dr. Hariharan a/l N. Krishnasamy
40.	Hina Durrani	Pakistan	Impact of Metacognitive Strategies on Learning Writing Skills at Tertiary Level in Baluchistan, Pakistan	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin Dr Norma Saad
41.	Shamim Akhter	Pakistan	Collocation Usage Among EFL Pakistani Learners in Creative Writing at Secondary Level : A Corpus-Based Study	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
42.	Yasmina Aidoune	Algeria	Problems of Using a Bilingual Dictionary in the Translation of Homonyms form English into Arabic – The Case of 1st year LMD English students at the department of Algiers	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
43.	Samarah Nazar	Pakistan	A Corpus Based Study of Nuances in the Styles of Writing of Female and Male Columnists of Asia	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
44.	Guechi Ryma	Algeria	The Position of Culture Teaching and Learning in EFL Classrooms	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin Prof. Madya Dr. Hariharan a/l N. Krishnasamy
45.	Ashraf Helmi Ahmad Balawneh	Jordan	Arab Postgraduate Students' Difficulties with Academic Writing in Malaysian Universities	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
46.	Hamzah Mohammed Hussein	Iraq	Pragmatic Deviation in Trump’s and Biden’s Political Speeches	Ongoing	Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
47.	Mohammad Abdallah Ali Bani Bakar	Jordan	Directive Speech Act & Politeness Strategies Employed by Jordanian Front-Desk Staff when Interesting With Guests	Ongoing	Dr Norma Saad Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
48.	Wu, Yong Ping	China	Study on Presupposition in Chinese and English Advertising Texts	Ongoing	Dr Hasliza Abdul Halim Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
49.	Azilah Binti Mahammed	Malaysia	Test Condition as The Moderator for The Relationship Between Reading Affective Factors and Reading Comprehension Achievement of Tertiary Level Students	Ongoing	Dr Rafizah Mohd Rawian Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
50.	Nur Asyrani Binti Che Ismail	Malaysia	Refusal And Politeness Strategies In The Speech All of Rejection Among Students of Higher Education	Ongoing	Dr Norma Saad Dr Nur Rasyidah Mohd Nordin
51.	Muhammad Yaseen	Pakistan	Effect of corrective feedback on the writing accuracy of EFL, SSC level students	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Dr. Minah binti Harun
52.	Mekhzoumi Oualieddine	Algeria	Factors influencing the acceptance of mobile applications for English language learning among students in UUM	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hariharan a/l N. Krishnasamy
53.	Loae Fakhri Ahmad Jdetawy	Jordan	Euphemism in Arabic : A case study of the Jordanian university students' daily conversations	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hariharan a/l N. Krishnasamy
54.	Issa Mohammad Muflih Naser	Jordan	Pronunciation Difficulties Observed Among Jordanian Learners of English as a Foreign Language. Contrastive Analysis and Investigation of Phonemic and Phonotactic Structure	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
55.	Asma Abdul Aziz	Pakistan	EFL teachers' beliefs about CALL use and integration in EFL instruction : The case of Pakistani universities	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Dr. Mohan a/l Rathakrishnan
56.	Alaa Abdullah Mesleh Alsaleem	Jordan	The attitude of Jordanian PhD students studying in Malaysia universities towards English language and culture	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
57.	Najah Ahmed Khamis Bin Hadjah	Yemen	Production and perception of English consonants by Yemeni EFL learners of English	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
58.	Edrina Sharlisa Binti Nordin	Malaysia	Acoustic phonetic study on English vowel production by Malaysian English speakers	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
59.	Malik Muhammad Saleem	Pakistan	A lexico-grammatical study of noun phrase in Pakistani English	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
60.	Qistina Muhamad Marzuki	Malaysia	Using cognitive multimedia learning framework in enhancing vocabulary learning among Malaysian students	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hariharan a/l N. Krishnasamy
61.	Shazma Razzaq	Pakistan	Investigating the association between metacognition, willingness to communicate and writing performance among Pakistani ESL students	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
62.	Rashda Perveen	Pakistan	Teacher's attitude towards English language: A comparative study of Urdu and English Language at middle school level	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
63.	Syazwina Binti Mohd Shahrir	Malaysia	An acoustic analysis of vowel duration affected by vowels and consonants in Kedah Malay variety	Ongoing	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
64.	Hammad Nazir Zaki	Pakistan	The Effects of code-switching in EFL writing oral instructions on its assessment in Pakistani universities	Ongoing	Dr. Nur Rasyidah binti Mohd. Nordin Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Hilmi Hamzah

Our PhD programme aims to prepare students for rigorous research in various areas in Applied linguistics including language assessment, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, phonetics and phonology, modern English linguistics, morphology and syntax, sociolinguistics and pedagogical grammar. Students will be exposed to ways of doing research based on the chosen area of specialisation with the guidance from the supervisor(s) at the Applied Linguistics Unit.

In pursuing the doctoral studies, students are required to take two courses namely Research Methodology and Academic Writing at the beginning of their enrolment. The former aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop and carry out a research where students are exposed to the research design, strategies, research method and process. The latter course exposes students to the practical and rhetorical strategies for developing effective writing. This course focuses on producing well-formed, accurate and comprehensible research reports that meet the standards and conventions of academic style.

To prepare students for the proposal defence, a colloquium session is available which is organised by the Applied Linguistics Unit, School of Languages, Civilisation and Philosophy (SLCP). The session enables students to present the initial ideas of their research work to others and to receive feedback from the Applied Linguistics lecturers acting as panellists and their peers. The colloquium presentation is compulsory before students are allowed to defend their proposals as required by the graduate school.

Applied Linguistics lecturers and students at one of the colloquium parallel sessions.

Group photo at the end of the colloquium and certificate presentation to participants.

A student’s presentation at the colloquium session (left) and an online proposal defence session conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic (right).

Our realm is a multicultural setting. We have local and international doctoral students who come from diverse backgrounds including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine and Yemen. Together, they form a rather close-knit group who are seen assisting each other in their own unique ways in ensuring that the research is done effectively.

Career opportunities

Applied linguistics degree provides students with a wide range of career opportunities including teaching, translation, interpreting, research, consulting, marketing, publishing, journalism, law, medicine, information technology, language and speech expertise, broadcasting, communication, public and international relations.

Students will also be exposed to other languages and cultures of their peers and as a result, develop the necessary cross-cultural and intercultural skills.