PhD theses

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PhD and Master’s Theses

Rachel Hall. 2026. Doctoral thesis. From the page to the stage; the potential of picturebook dramatisation in the development of oral skills of young learners of English. Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ku-eichstaett/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/1027/file/HallFromthePagetotheStage.pdf

Eva Göksel. 2025. Doctoral thesis. Drama in teacher education: Radical spaces of possibility.
Dissertation. Doctoral thesis, University of Zurich. ZORA–University of Zurich Repository. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/entities/publication/6e3772fe-4ed1-4815-8dee-e1b67a1e19a3

Christina Zourna. 2025. Doctoral thesis. The impact of drama in education on career decision-making self-efficacy and career decision-making skills development of secondary education students: a mixed methods research study. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Macedonia.  http://dspace.lib.uom.gr/ handle/2159/32851

Kung Man Matthew Cheung (2021) Towards principles of performative pedagogy: Drama and additional language development (DALD)

https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Towards_principles_of_performative_pedagogy_Drama_and_additional_language_development_DALD_/15255678

Petra Schappert. 2020.  (PhD): Mit Dramagrammatik zu grammatikalischer Kompetenz: Eine empirische Untersuchung im Rahmen von Alphabetisierungskursen für Erwachsene. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag

Georgina Dragovic. 2019. (PhD): Fremdsprachenunterricht (ent-)dramatisieren: Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Effizienz des dramapädagogischen Ansatzes im schulischen DaF-Unterricht mit speziellem Fokus auf Grammatik. http://doc.rero.ch/record/327181?

Dany Weyer. 2019. (PhD thesis) Investigating trust in a multilingual theatre project: Potentialities for a humanising pedagogy. A case study of a multilingual theatre project of a primary school class and a video ethnographic that explored details of classroom practices, (inter-)actions, and activities. Open Access: http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/38971

Silja Weber. 2018. (PhD thesis) „The Role of Performance for Student Agency – a Discourse Perspective on Whole Group Interaction in Intermediate German Classes“. via ProQuest oder die Autorin.

Simona Floare Bora . 2018. (PhD thesis). Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills. Open Access): http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21287/1/Final%20PhD%20thesis%20Simona%20Bora.pdf

Kathleen R. McGovern. 2016. (Master’s thesis): „Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play“. Open Access: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/369/