EP3/01 GCM Teachers'  knowledge and beliefs about English Language teaching: effects on classroom  practices (2002-2005). Principal Investigator. (Team menbers: Lawrence Zhang, Koh Guat Hua and  Ng Chiew Hong )

EP11/0 LEL An  acoustic analysis of Singapore English with special reference to its  pedagogical applications. (2000 -  2003) With Low Ee Ling, Principal Investigator

RP 19/92 LB An instrumental study of the sounds and prosodies of current Singapore English pronunciation with special reference to contrastive and pedagogical applications (1995 -1997). With Leszek Biedrzycki, Principal Investigator. 

Design and validation of an instrument  for  assessing metacognitive awareness about second langauge listening  (Metacognitive Awareness in Listening Questionnaire /MALQ (Collaborators: Larry Vandergrift , Catherine Mareschal and Marzieh Tafagdohari; University of Ottawa)  (2004- 2006)

Process-based listening lessons for the development of metacognitive knowledge and strategy use  in second language listening  (Collaborator: Liu Xuelin) (2003- 2005)

Acquiring English in a diglossic society: Variations in children's  decontextualised oral language (2001-2006)

Discourse intonation of English  speakers from Singapore and China:  Variations and pragmatic implications  (2004 - 2007)

Spoken grammar: Pedagogic relevance and teacher education in Asian ELT  contextx (2006 - )

The use of group work for oracy  and cognitive development  amongst first and second language speakers of English (2007 -  )