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Recent PhD theses 2000-the present

Boswood, Timothy S (2000) Strategic writing and organizational identities. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Lowe, Cecilia Torda (2000) The outsider's voice: Discourse and identity among Filipino domestic workers (FDWs) in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Ouyang, Huhua (2000) Remaking of face and community of practices: An ethnographic study of what ELT reform means to local and expatrate teachers in today's China. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Vyas, Rita (2001) Advertising in multicultural contexts. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Drave, Neil (2002) Vague language in intercultural conversation. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Jiang, Qin (2002) Corrective feedback, learner noticing, and their interrelation in second language acquisition: An observational study of EFL classes in a secondary school in Shanghai. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Kwan, Hoi Yan (2002) The learning of English vocabulary by local students and Chinese immigrant children: A critical and sociocultural analysis. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Pan, Xiaping (2002) Newspaper coverage of post-colonial Hong Kong: Case studies of language and ideology. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Miller, Lindsay (2003) Academic lectures and listening in a second language: An ethnographic case study. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Qi, Luxia (2003) The intended washback effect of the National matriculation English test in China: Intentions and reality. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Kong, Stella Wai Yu (2004) Writing in the Hong Kong immersion classroom: Developing students' content knowledge and English language proficiency. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Liu, Jianda (2004) Measuring interlanguage pragmatic knowledge of Chinese EFL learners. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Kwan, Becky Siu Chu (2005) A genre analysis of literature reviews in doctoral theses. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Leong, Solomon Ling Kong (2005) Perspectives on 'race' and identities in contemporary Hong Kong: A triangulated approach. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Lung, Jane Wing Yi (2005) Applied genre analysis: Cases in business and law. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
So, Bronia Po Chun (2005) Analysing newspaper genres with a view to developing a genre-based pedagogy for the teaching of writing in Hong Kong schools. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Bremner, Stephen (2006) The construction of workplace writing: Texts, contexts and interaction in an academic administration. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Li, Yongyan (2006) Writing for international publication: The case of Chinese doctoral science students. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Loong, Yvonne Chi Wan (2006) Construction of femininity: Contemporary gender discourse of international women's magazines in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Shum, So Po (2006) Oral retelling and story writing development: A case study of Hong Kong primary 4 students. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Forest, Richard W (2007) 'Tell us what you really think': Collocation and discourse in an intertextual corpus. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Li, Qingping (2007) The effect of instruction on the development of requests in adolescent learners of English as a foreign language in China. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Cao, Dechun (2008) Multiplied cultures and market information communication behaviours. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Lee, Sherman (2008) A study of language choice and language shift among the Hakka-speaking population in Hong Kong, with a primary focus on Sha Tau Kok. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
Yan, Mei Yee Edith (2008) The interrelation between linguistic and visual modes in school science: A study on a secondary 4 biology class in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.