ALDS PhD candidates Lina AlHassan and Olga Makinina have successfully defended their theses and are set to graduate. Lina AlHassan’s thesis, An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Formulaic Sequences in Upgrading EAP Students’ Academic Writing Skills, was defended April 20th, while Olga Makinina’s thesis, Factors Impacting Collocation Recognition and Controlled Production by ESL Speakers, was defended May 8th. Both were supervised by Dr. David Wood, Director of SLALS.  Congratulations to Dr. AlHassan and Dr. Makinina!

Thursday, May 10, 2018  |  Categories: Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, Success Stories