Welcome to my NIE homepage. The National Institute of Education, Singapore is an institution of the Nanyang Technological University.

NIE, Singapore provides academic and professional education to pre- and in-service teachers in Singapore and the region. It offers a wide range of postgraduate diploma and degree programmes up to the doctorate level. I teach on a number of these programmes and supervise postgraduate research in the English Language & Literature Department.

Academic Qualifications
Ph. D. (Linguistics)  The University  of Lancaster
M.A. (Applied English Linguistics)  The University of Birmingham
B.A. Hons (English) The University of Malaya

Professional Qualifications

Dip. Ed. (English) The University of Malaya

Cert. (Language Syllabuses & Language Teaching) SEAMEO Regional Language Centre , Singapore

Linguistics and English Language Education

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Teaching and assessment of  speaking, listening and pronunciation
• Oracy, thinking and academic learning
• First and second language acquisition and development
• Listening comprehension processes & speech processing
• Learner metacognition and strategies
• Discourse intonation
• Research methods for applied linguistics
  

Programmes I teach on:

• MA in Applied Linguistics
• M Ed (English Language Education)
• BA (English/ Education)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary English)
• Postgraduate Diploma in ELT
• Advanced Diploma in English