Ngô Nhật Thanh Trà

Read about the research being undertaken by Ngô Nhật Thanh Trà (Clarrie), a PhD student in Linguistics

Thesis title

Masked semantic priming in Vietnamese ESL learners: a question of symmetrical priming effect (tbc)

Supervisors

A/Prof Irina Elgort and A/Prof Anna Siyanova

Biography

Ngo Nhat Thanh Tra (Clarrie) is currently pursuing her PhD in Applied Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She holds an M.A. in TESOL (Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages) at University of Northampton, England and an B.A. in English Language at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, language processing, cross-language influence, bi/multilingualism and second language acquisition.

Publication

Tra, N. N. T., Han, W., & Pill, S. (2025). Willingness to Communicate, L2 Self-Confidence, and Academic Self-Concept: A Mixed-Methods Study of Vietnamese University Students in the UK. Behavioral Sciences, 15(9), 1176. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15091176

Funded Projects

(P)Urb@n Project, University of Northampton, England, United Kingdom, Academic year 2023 – 2024 (fully funded)
*Topic: Unlocking Thesis Writing Challenge at University of Northampton (UON): Perspective on academic Writing in Southeast Asian Postgraduate Theses through Positioning Theory
*Role: Co-author and Student Researcher
*Project Leader: Dr. Winnie Sin Wai Pui, Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), University of Cambridge, UK.
*Research Output: https://padlet.com/uon1/urb-at-n-posters-2023-24-zfmmr0pq9x9rzjvu

Student-led Research Project, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam, academic year 2021 – 2022 (fully funded)
*Topic: Oral corrective feedback in Legal English-speaking class
*Role: Leading author and student researcher
*Project leader/supervisor: MA. Le Nguyen Thao Thy, Faculty of Legal Languages, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam

Presentations