Staff Research Interests 

BAI Rui

• Language Learning Strategies
• Writing Strategies
• Second Language Acquisition
• Cross-cultural Communication

CHAN Ling Ling

• Language teaching methodology
• Language acquisition
• Education management

CHAN Soon Keng

• Academic writing of postgraduate students
• The art of abstracting: strategies and behaviors of novice writers
• Applying explicit knowledge
• Writing for the work place

CHIN Soo Fun

 

 

 

 

• Language Teaching and Learning Strategies
• Teaching and learning grammar
• Education management

GONZALEZ Ruiz, Cristina

• Learning Strategies
• Developing Language Skills in the Classroom
• Effects of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• Curriculum and Course Design

HEAH Lee Hah, Carmel

• ELT course design and assessment
• Pedagogical grammar
• Business communication
• Discourse analysis
• Language contact
• Lexical semantics

Frank van't  HOOG

• The use of technology based learning in foreign language teaching
• Classroom management from an interpersonal perspective; the effect of teacher behaviour on the teaching process
• The effect of the grading process on motivation and learning

Sujata Surinder KATHPALIA

• Discourse Analysis
• Academic Writing
• Cohesion & Coherence
• Composition Theory
• Methods of Teaching

KHOO Phaik Suan, Susan

• Child language development
• Adult language acquisition eg. effects of factors such as motivation, learning styles, intelligence, personality, and age on language learning

KIM May Lin, Grace

• Mediated Learning
• Differentiated Instruction 

KOO-CHEAH Swit Ling

• Second Language Learning
• Interactive Classroom Learning

LAI Phooi Ching

• Intercultural communication in employment interviews
• Education Administration

LEE Chien Ching

• Writing
• Student response to feedback
• Graphic organizers
• Strategy and self-regulation instruction
• Computer-supported collaborative learning

LEE Hwee Hoon

• ICT in education
• Grammar and discourse
• Teacher and learner beliefs in language teaching and learning

LEONG Ping, Alvin

• Systemic Functional Grammar 
• Discourse Analysis

LI Shu Yun

• EAP Writing
• ESL Writing
• Feedback on Writing

Beatriz Paredes LORENTE

• Language, identity and power
• Language and migration
• Language policy and planning
• World Englishes

Joe MACKINNON

• Language Teaching Methodology
• Cross Cultural Communication
• Language Learning Strategies

Noela MURPHY

• Personal pedagogies of teachers and learners
• Research higher degree supervision
• Coping strategies for ESL thesis and report writing
• Classroom dynamics
  

NG Cheng Cheng, Aileen

• E-Learning in SLA
• Varieties of English in SEA
• Stylistics
• Curriculum Development in TESL
• Classroom Dynamics

Kenneth ONG Keng Wee

• Bilingual Metacognition
• Societal Bilingualism
• Effects of Computer-Mediated Communication on Language Learning and Use
• Pragmatics

PANG Su Woon

• Foreign and second language learning styles and strategies

Anil Laxman PATHAK

• Internet Communication
• Professional Writing
• New Media Discourse

Stefan Karl SERWE

• Conversation Analysis
• Language Contact
• Language Acquisition

Aida Sarah Anggara SITUMEANG

• Discourse Analysis
• Second Language Acquisition

Shamala SUNDARAY

• New technologies in education
• Multilingual acquisition
• Communication disorders

TAM-WONG Moh Kim

• Oral communication and technical report writing

TAN Mia Huan

• Language Learning Strategies in L2 learners
• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

Santha THANASINGAM

• Linguistics in Language Teaching
• Language Teaching Pedagogy
• Language Testing
• Language Learning Styles

Roger WINDER

 

 

• Critical Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Language Teaching Methodology