Research Grants

Our ELL faculty are active researchers involved in multiple research and teaching grants. This page features a selection of grants awarded in the last three years.

Year awardedProject TitleName of ELL FacultyFunding SourceAward Amount
2023Transforming Pedagogy in the Digital Era: An Exploration of Digital Literacy and Its Empowering Potential in Singapore’s Secondary Chinese Language Classrooms

Han Yiting [PI]
A/P Victor Lim Fei [Co-PI]

Singapore Ministry of Education Ring-Fenced Fund $235,207.20
2023Evaluating Reading Gain from a Mobile Library Intervention in a Low-Income NeighbourhoodA/P Loh Chin Ee [PI]NUS Singapore Mobility Foundation Grant$49,550
2023The Singapore Student Digital Literacies ProfileA/P Victor Lim Fei [PI]ERFP - MOE$127,336
2021Designing School Libraries of the Future (LOTF Study)

A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI]
A/P Victor Lim Fei [Co-PI]

ERFP - MOE$279,879
2021Literate lives: Youth’s emotive-embodied experiences of literacyA/P Csilla Weninger [PI]ERFP - MOE$149,944
2021Investigating Enactments of Values Pedagogy in Two Schools in SingaporeA/P Suzanne Choo Shen Li [PI]ERFP - MOE$149,798
2021Developmental trajectories of English-Mandarin bilingual children A/P Vahid Aryadoust [PI]ERFP - MOE$1,025,532.5
2020A Study on Children’s Home ICT Use on their Language and Development (CHILD)A/P Victor Lim Fei [PI]Temasek Foundation$699,066.78

* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator

Year awardedProject TitleName of ELL FacultyAward Amount
2023The ethnolinguistic repertoires and linguistic practices of Malay and Indian bilinguals in SingaporeAsst/P Jasper Sim Hong [PI]

$50,000

2023Student perception and engagement with automated written corrective feedback provided by Grammarly: Case studies from Singapore and Hong KongA/P Cheung Yin Ling [PI]$2,249
2023Deepening Multimodality and Technology Research for Teaching and LearningA/P Victor Lim Fei [PI]$9,934
2023Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing: A Scoping ReviewA/P Cheung Yin Ling [PI]$99,717.33
2023Reading Southeast Asia in the World (1967 – 1990)Asst/P Ann Ang Su Lee [PI]$50,000
2023Singapore Speaks: Studying the varieties of spoken Singapore EnglishAsst/P Geraldine Kwek [PI]$78,030
2023Language processing in multilingual and multidialectal contexts: the case of Singapore EnglishAsst/P Jasper Sim Hong [PI]$9,985
2023Understanding and evaluating English language teaching practice: A secondary analysis of CORE Dr Loh Kok Khiang Jason [PI]$17,044
2022Teacher Language and Talk in the Primary English Language Classrooms

Dr Kiren Kaur [PI]
Dr Lim Ching-Tse [Co-PI]

$18,665
2022Grammar as a Meaning-Making Resource for Literacy DevelopmentDr Christine Xavier [PI]$19,322
2022Reading Futures and Mobilities: A Life History Study of Learning to ReadA/P Loh Chin Ee [PI]$49,807.30
2022Enactment of expert teaching by award-winning EL teachers in Singapore: An evaluation study 

Dr Loh Kok Khiang Jason [PI]
Dr Yeo Kah Sin Dennis [Co-PI]
Dr Kiren Kaur [Co-PI]

$19,710
2022Grant for book project Understanding Ian McEwanAsst/P Tan Xing Long, Ian [PI]$9,500

* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator

Year awardedProject TitleName of ELL FacultyAward Amount
2024UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA)’s grantA/P Vahid Aryadoust [PI]£500
2023Literatures of Southeast AsiaAsst/P Ann Ang Su Lee [PI]$9,998.60
2023Deepening The Dialogic Discourse and Thinking of NTU Students Through Student-Led Book Clubs on Children’s Literature: Strengthening Prevailing PracticesDr Jo Ann Shek [PI]$10,000

* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator