Teaching

Courses Taught
(Postgraduate and Undergraduate)
  • Introductory courses in Linguistics, e.g.
    • Foundations of Linguistics
    • Nature of Language
    • Fundamentals of Linguistics A: Mind and Meaning
    • Language Puzzle
  • Semantics
  • Advanced Semantics
  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • Bilingualism and Cognition
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Child Language
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language and Society in Asia
  • Language and Gender
  • Structure and Development of English
  • World Englishes
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Research Methodology in Linguistics
Supervision of Graduating Students
Supervisor Students’ Research Topics

  • A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Discourse Level Feedback in NNS-NNS Dyads.
  • Beyond Spatial Terms: A Naturalistic Account of Maternal and Child Use of ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘under’.
  • Questions in Japanese L2 Classrooms: A Comparison of Japanese Native Speaker and Japanese Non-native speaker Teachers.
  • Bilingual Language Acquisition: A Case Study
  • Teacher and Non-Teacher Perception of Learner Speech
  • Attitudes and Prior Language Learning Experience in Tertiary Beginner Language Learners
  • Attitude and Motivation: Their Relationship with Foreign Language Achievement.
  • Cohesive ties in the writing of Indonesian ESL learners
  • Requests and Apologies: A Study in Cross-cultural Pragmatics of Native Chinese Speakers, ESL Chinese Speakers and Native Australian Speakers.
  • Language contact and Sign language in Singapore
  • Sentiment Analysis in Indonesian
  • Bilingualism and Autism
  • Language and emotion in bilingual Singapore
  • Translanguaging in multilingual Singapore