National Institute of Education | ELL / CRPP

Dr Paul Doyle

EDUCATION

2003  Ph.D. Linguistics, Lancaster University, England.

1991  MA Applied English Linguistics, Birmingham University, England.

1985  RSA Diploma in TEFL, Moray House, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1983  RSA Certificate in TESLA, Stevenson College, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1980  BA Hons. English Studies with Education, Stirling University, Scotland.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 - 2008 Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

1999 - 2003 Lecturer, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

1992 - 1999 Senior Training Consultant, Business Communication Unit, The British Council, Singapore.

1988-1991 Senior Teacher, English Language Centre, The British Council, Singapore.

1986 - 1988 Assistant Director of Studies, English Language Centre, The British Council, Indonesia

1985 - 1986 Senior Teacher, ATT-Daramawan Language Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia.

1984  Lecturer, EAP, Juba University, Sudan.

1982-1983 English Teacher, Port Sudan Government Boys School, Sudan.

1980 - 1981 English Teacher, Cameron High School, Falkirk, Scotland.

PUBLICATIONS

• Doyle, P. (forthcoming) Language development in Singapore classrooms: A corpus-based description of the 'school variety'. In Rita Silver, Christine Goh and Lubna Alsagoff (Eds.), Language Learning in New English Contexts: Studies of Acquisition and Development. London, Continuum.
• Doyle, P. 2007.  Teaching grammar with a learner corpus. In T. Ruanni F. Tupas, Yuan Yi and Christianty Nur (Eds.), Changing Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar, Singapore: Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics, 77-86.
• Doyle, P. 2005. Replication in corpus linguistics: Lexical networks in text. In Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series, Vol 1, No 1, Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham University. [www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC ]

PRESENTATIONS

• 2008  Viewing Language: Online Corpora and Language Awareness
• 2008  A variety of 'errors'? Automated analysis of teacher and pupil talk in Singapore classrooms
• 2008  Annotating, indexing and querying a multilingual, multimodal classroom discourse corpus
• 2006  How effective is classroom concordancing?
• 2005  Replication in corpus linguistics - Lexical networks in text

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Member, Singapore Association of Tertiary English Teachers.

COURSES TAUGHT

AAE434 Lexicology and Lexicography

MAE815 Corpora in Applied Linguistics

GRANTS & CONTRACTS