Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Science Malaysia

Extinction of languages has encouraged many relevant stakeholders to seriously consider actions to preserve languages in danger, especially heritage languages. With the ongoing efforts in preserving heritage languages that are greatly exposed by language shift in the family domain, this paper looks into the role of technology in further ensuring la...

This study critically examines Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, focusing on how the work reflects Victorian England's cultural and ideological biases. FitzGerald’s version, while renowned for introducing Khayyam’s philosophy to the Western world, is also a product of its time, shaped by the Victorian worldview. By an...

English medium instruction (EMI) as a language policy in higher education is based on monolingual conceptions and limits the use of the full linguistic repertoire of bilinguals/multilinguals in the university classroom. Informed by the constructs of language ideology (Spolsky, Bernard. 2009. Language management. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University...

This systematic review explores the academic, sociocultural, and psychological adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese international students in Malaysian higher education institutions, synthesizing findings from 24 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2024. It highlights Malaysia's distinct adaptation context, characterized by uni...

While previous research has explored simplification in literary translation studies, this study's focus on universals in audiovisual translation studies(AVT), especially in subtitling. In the era of advancing technology, where machine translation and automated translation analysis tools play a crucial role, the study of simplification as a universa...

This study examines the use of English film subtitles to cultivate critical language awareness (CLA) and enhance language skills via a corpus-based approach. Creating and analyzing a specialized corpus of film subtitles reveals the cultural, social, and ideological dimensions of language usage. The findings show that film subtitles provide an authe...

Culture is embedded in and reflected by language. Malaysian Standard English encompasses a vast number of indigenised words borrowed from Malay, Chinese, and Indian cultures (Baskaran, 2005). Malaysian Indians, the third-largest ethnic group in Malaysian society, have played a significant role in shaping Malaysian Standard English (MSE) through lex...

The study of linguistic landscapes (LL) in Malaysia has emerged as a prominent area of research in Asia, predominantly focused on Kuala Lumpur, the capital city. Despite Chinese constituting over one fifth of Malaysia’s population, the presence of Chinese in the LL remains insufficiently explored. This empirical study addresses this gap by examinin...

This study aims to gather information about the lacks and wants of existing ESP for medical students at Ibb University (IU) in Yemen as a part of a needs analysis with descriptive quantitative and qualitative methods. In this study, the quantitative data were collected using questionnaires (n=200) via the maximum variation purposive sampling strate...

The news media's role in shaping knowledge about mental illness has long been recognised as one of the primary conduits through which the public learns about people with mental health conditions. Despite a proliferation of research on media portrayals of mental illness, there seems to be a lack of studies critically examining how people with mental...

English proficiency, especially speaking skills, is crucial for academic and professional success in Jordan. However, many undergraduates struggle with fluency, particularly those majoring in English Language and Literature (ELL). Traditional teaching methods in Jordan emphasize exam preparation over practical language use, leading to superficial k...

This study employs a bibliometric analysis to assess trends in Audiovisual Translation (AVT) research from 2004 to 2023 using the Web of Science Core Collection as resources. The analysis targets identifying key researchers, influential institutions, principal research topics, and current and emerging hotspots in AVT. This study utilized CiteSpace...

This paper focuses on the English translation of Xi Jinping’s political discourse. This translation is not only a key component of China’s external publicity efforts but also embodies Xi Jinping’s diplomatic narrative style and the diplomatic thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, the latter of which mainly refers to the d...

Language used in newspapers can influence the readers' view on the issues published in them. Language is no longer a mere means of communicating information; but it also generates and shapes the social interaction with such issues. This could be achieved through the effective representation of these issues using linguistic expressions. Therefore, t...

The English translation of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China showcases advanced translation practices within Chinese political discourse, crucial for facilitating cross-cultural communication. As a seminal work of 21st-century Marxism and a primary text of Chinese political thought, it represents the principles of socialism with Chinese character...

This research focuses on the needs analysis and perspectives in evaluating English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses designed for medical students. The study intends to identify the medical students’ perceptions of the frequency and importance of using English language skills. Two different instruments, questionnaires and semi-structured intervie...

In the global era, translating Chinese political discourse is key to enhancing international understanding and diplomacy. This research employs the narrative paradigm to assess the translation of Chinese political discourse, with the goal of enhancing the effective narrative comprehension of such translations for international communication. It app...

Background and Purpose: This study examined the comprehensiveness and sufficiency of academic integrity (AI) policies of selected Malaysian higher education institutions. The investigation of eight public and private universities’ AI policies were guided by the five core elements of exemplar AI policy framework developed by Bretag, Mahmud, Wallace,...

Addressing the global increase in social media users, platforms such as Instagram introduced automatic translation to broaden information dissemination and improve cross-cultural communication. Yet, the accuracy of these platforms' machine translation systems is still a concern. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the potential of Neural Machine...

Malaysian Japanese speaking graduates with Japanese language proficiency (JLP) and business Japanese competence (BJC) employed in Japanese companies (JC) in Malaysia are considered an asset by their employers. However, to what extent are their JLP and BJC sufficient to function in JC is an under researched area and deserves further scrutiny. Theref...

The purpose of this analysis is to investigate the syntactic problems while translating English legal texts from English into Arabic. Syntactic differences between English and Arabic result in many syntactic problems that hinder the translation process. To analyzed these problems, three models of translation are adopted; Nord's Model of translation...

This paper aims to investigate some forms of interrogatives in Standard Arabic (SA), two Jordanian Arabic dialects (JAD): urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) and rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA), and their impact on the Jordanian people's use of English Interrogative forms. It also examines how SA, and the two JAD are similar and different based on their form...

Abstract Subtitling is one of the most widely used translation practices in the localization of video games and enjoys great popularity among the end-users. Given the language-bound nature of subtitling practices, the present study seeks to shed light on the subtitling practices followed in Persian game localization and empirically provide a descri...

Teacher cognition research has been the subject of scholarly investigation since the 1970s, but there has been a significant increase in research interest in this field in recent years. The beliefs of the language teacher are important factors in any specific classroom instructional decision, including the role and provision of oral corrective feed...

Globally, educational psychology and theory have advanced the knowledge of various ways college students learn and retain information. Low academic performance in college education is directly attributed to learning disabilities. Using the underlying mechanism of mobile-assisted language learning, the present study explored how self-monitoring impa...

The goal of this study is to better understand the language learning techniques (LLS) that students use to improve their speaking abilities. A survey, drawn from the Oxford (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) Version 7.0, was given to a hundred undergraduate students enrolled in the private Jordanian university Irbid National Uni...

This research provides a detailed and structured narrative of written feedback provided by thesis supervisors in response to the thesis drafts of their EFL graduate students, as most prior research focused on the students’ perspectives. Specifically, the objective of this research is to identify the best practises in written feedback by thesis supe...

The current study provides literature review on research conducted over the past four decades focused on written corrective feedback (WCF). This metanalysis reveals that, although the field of WCF has matured, there is still considerable debate among research scholars over its efficacy. This article provides a synthesis of the literature on WCR in...

A Genre-Based Pedagogy to Promote Orang Asli Students' Writing Performance is an academic book that aims to equip low-proficiency upper secondary students with the necessary writing skills in order to be competent in English communication to prepare them for real-world situations. This book incorporates the topics, objectives, learning outcomes and...

Success and progress in learning a foreign language depend mainly on students correcting language errors. Using repairs for addressing errors inside language learning classrooms helps them solve the problems of speaking, listening, hearing, and others. It assists them in modifying their talk and prevents communication breakdowns. This study aimed t...

Background: Feedback provided to learners' writing is a construct of identifying a learner's performance, and it can be identified and trifurcated as grammatical form, location in the text, and pragmatic functions. Second language researchers worldwide consider written corrective feedback (WCF) as a vital and valuable teaching tool that enables lea...

The virus takes a toll on people worldwide regarding the economy and social life, control the spread of this virus and taking the vaccine are most problems faced by the governments. This article examines the news coverage of the Coronavirus vaccine, focusing on the Covid-19 vaccine and how it has been exploited politically and ideologically in the...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, has exponentially changed how education is delivered to higher education students in Malaysia and Thailand. The current teaching and learning routine, which relied heavily on face-to-face interaction between educators and learners, as well as blended education to some level, was disrupted when the w...

Gender relations of the Malaysian Sikh community are strongly influenced by gender ideology. Understanding gender ideology, as perceived by the Sikhs, influences how gender equality is practised in various aspects of life. Sikh religion originated from the Indian state of Punjab. Punjabi society is heterogeneous in terms of religion, region, class,...

The sudden increase in the statistical outbreak of Coronavirus in Malaysia had urged the government to impose a movement control order (MCO) starting 18 March 2020 for Malaysians to stay at home to stop the virus from spreading even more. Since the virus had been spreading rapidly across the globe, the situation demanded the closure of schools and...

The sudden increase in the statistical outbreak of Coronavirus in Malaysia had urged the government to impose a movement control order (MCO) starting 18 March 2020 for Malaysians to stay at home to stop the virus from spreading even more. Since the virus had been spreading rapidly across the globe, the situation demanded the closure of schools and...

This study aims to explore teachers’ perceptions of the importance of culture in teaching German as an international language in secondary schools in Malaysia based on the interrelationship between language and culture which are closely related. The quantitative method through questionnaires was conducted to collect data. A total of 66 Malaysian se...

English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has been implemented in the context of higher education in non-native English-speaking countries mainly to attract international students through internationalisation while helping local students achieve success in the job market and pursue further education both locally and globally. In the context of Malay...

Computer-mediated feedback (CMF) has recently gained attention in L2 (second language) classes because it offers numerous advantages, such as flexibility and timesaving. However, not much is known about how it affects the accuracy of L2 learners and how the mediating variables, such as learners’ preferred perceptual style, influences the efficacy o...

Purpose – In the 21st century, the importance of having good English proficiency in Malaysia and globally has impacted educators, especially in terms of their pedagogical practices. Although students are exposed to 11 years of English language instruction in Malaysia, Orang Asli students still possess low English proficiency and poor writing skills...

Purpose-In the 21 st century, the importance of having good English proficiency in Malaysia and globally has impacted educators, especially in terms of their pedagogical practices. Although students are exposed to 11 years of English language instruction in Malaysia, Orang Asli students still possess low English proficiency and poor writing skills....

Evolution of English medium instruction (EMI) in non-native English-speaking countries in recent years has inspired researchers to investigate the various dimensions of this phenomenon. Internationalising higher education, realising the local needs of English-speaking graduates, and eliciting the economic and social benefits of English are often re...

Fishman's (1972) domain analysis was used to investigate the sustainability of Punjabi language among Malaysian Sikh youth in their home domain. Data were collected through survey questionnaire. The main finding indicates a shift in language choice and use according to the type of relationship with interlocutors. Punjabi is the most preferred langu...

The Malay-English relationship in Malaysia has witnessed a pendulum shift and ignited critical debates. The Malay nationalist discourse on language policy is evident. Nonetheless, the concurrent significance of English in the era of globalisation is undeniable. This article highlights English (and Malay) language policy and planning (LPP) in Malays...

Although substantial evidence exists showing written corrective feedback (WCF) helps second language (L2) learners improve their writing accuracy, there is a paucity of research that has examined L2 writing accuracy in connection with both revision behavior and processing of WCF. Using a quasi-experimental research design, 44 learners from four Aca...

New norms of linguistic ideology and practices emerged as English grows in higher education in non-English speaking countries. English Medium Instruction (EMI) has been formalised by overlooking the role of other (e.g. native) languages in knowledge construction and communication. This study investigates STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and...

Teacher cognition research has provided useful insights into complex, dynamic, and contextual teaching processes. Yet, there is no systematic framework for describing the complex, dynamic and contextual features of teacher cognition. This research applied complexity theory to the analysis of characteristics of teacher cognition systems of an Englis...

Japanese EFL international students may experience high levels of apprehension when communicating in English due to their culture, educational background, attitudes towards the role of English in their society, and lack of opportunities to practice speaking in English. Although the students in this study had studied English before joining the Engli...

Education is about creating sustainable innovations for future learning. This tagline emphasizes the role of education policymakers and educators to ensure successful learning for digital natives and neo digital natives as the education landscape is currently challenged by the great disruptors. Knowledge, as capital and technological innovations, h...

Japanese EFL international students may experience high levels of apprehension when communicating in English due to their culture, educational background, attitudes towards the role of English in their society, and lack of opportunities to practice speaking in English. Although the students in this study had studied English before joining the Engli...

This study discusses English Language Communicative Competence (ELCC) of university interns during their eight-week internship. The aim of the study is to identify the importance of workplace oral and written communicative tasks from the lens of university interns. Quantitative methodology using an adopted questionnaire was employed among sixty-eig...

Cognition plays an important role in language teacher decision-making. A number of sources, including schooling, influence the cognition of language teachers. The concept of schooling is identified as the history of teachers' own personal education influences on the teachers’ knowledge, also referred to as apprenticeship of observation (AO). Throug...

The construction of teacher beliefs through teacher education programs and their impact on classroom practices has drawn enormous attention in the concurrent literature. Yet in Bangladesh, little is known about the construction of teacher beliefs through teacher education programs and the impact of teacher beliefs on their classroom practices. Pert...

Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published materials. This review article covers several key is...

The relationship in commerce and business between Japan and Malaysia has been rapidly developing and expanding in recent times. As a result, there is a dramatic rise in the demand for individuals who have Japanese language proficiency to work in Japanese companies. However, a very limited number of studies have focused on the requirements of Japane...

Fuelled by nationalism, public universities in Bangladesh adopted Bangla as their MOI. In contrast, considering the role of English in the processes of internationalization, globalization and economic benefit attached to English, private universities in Bangladesh have adopted English as their MOI. Through the exploration of lecturers’ MOI ideologi...

Lack of proficiency in Japanese language is a hindrance for successful intercultural communication between Malaysian Japanese speaking employees (MJSE) and Japanese employers (JE) in Japanese companies (JC) in Malaysia. Therefore, this quantitative study using Japanese Language Questionnaire (JLQ) investigated Japanese language use in intercultural...

Bias and unfairness of test items in language proficiency tests have been an issue of scholarly investigation. Unfair test items and cultural biases in international English language proficiency tests such as TOEFL and IELTS have received considerable attention. However, such unfairness and biases in proficiency tests conducted at the national leve...

Translation of culture-bound lexical items in texts has been uneasy task because languages differ from one culture to another and so not all linguistic items can be translated from the source language (SL) into the target language (TL). Sometimes translation may not meet the intent of the original author of a text. Translators, therefore, find them...

In an increasingly globalized world, English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has now become a common phenomenon. Recent research, however, has shown that EMI is not without its problems. This article reports a case study of a private university from Bangladesh. Employing Spolsky’s language policy framework, the study made a critical an...

Focusing on the perspective of lecturers, this qualitative research investigated the academic reading and writing challenges faced by international English-as-a-foreign-language master's students at a Malaysian university. Data was collected through semi-structured, in-depth, one-on-one interviews with 16 lecturers who taught international students...

English-medium instruction (EMI) has been perceived as a key strategy through which universities, propelled by academic, political, social and economic motives, respond to the influence of globalisation (Altbach & Knight, 2007). This has been fuelled by the fact that English, defined as the global common language, is needed to create the knowledge...

This conference paper reflects on the challenges that teachers face in teaching Business English as an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course in the context of tertiary education in Bangladesh.The study discussed three critical issues related to ESP which is distinctive from English for General Purposes (EGP)

The advent of personal computing and the Internet have tremendous influence on the enhancement of creativity in language learning classrooms. One of many Internet game-based student response systems that promote creativity in classroom learning is Kahoot!. According to Gee (2003), well-designed video games are learning machines. Kahoot! is currentl...

The study focuses on the implementation of communicative English language curriculum reform of four secondary school teachers in Bangladesh. The study is explorative, interpretive, and qualitative in nature. A phenomenology approach, under the qualitative method, was adopted to explore how teachers experience the phenomenon of communicative languag...

Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published materials. This review article covers several key is...

This study investigated the impact of reading learning strategies (RLS) mediated by smartphone features and applications on the learners' psychological autonomy in English as a foreign language (EFL) reading context among undergraduates in Saudi Arabia. A total of 70 male students in two intact reading classes participated in this study. A question...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate and understand academic English language-related challenges in listening and speaking faced by English as a foreign language (EFL) international Master students enrolled in various taught Master programs in a Malaysian university from the viewpoint/lens of 16 lecturers teaching the students. Des...

This research assesses the understanding of plagiarism among first year Malaysian university students. The assessment is crucial to chart future directions in promoting good academic practices and academic integrity among the first year university students at the initial stage of their academic journey. Specifically, the research objectives are to...

This research assesses the understanding of plagiarism among first year Malaysian university students. The assessment is crucial to chart future directions in promoting good academic practices and academic integrity among the first year university students at the initial stage of their university academic journey. Specifically, the research objecti...

This study investigated the impact of social strategies mediated by smartphone features and applications on socio-cultural autonomy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading context among undergraduates in Saudi Arabia. Two EFL reading classes of 70 students acted as an experimental and a control group participated in this study. A questionnai...

The aims of English literature component in the Malaysian English Language curriculum as outlined by the Ministry of Education (MoE) (2009) are to improve the students’ proficiency through reading, respond to texts, understand and appreciate other cultures and relate events and characters to one’s own life. Therefore, the purpose of this research i...

The present research provides insights into the different forms of adaptation strategies employed by international graduate students to overcome the challenges faced in the academic writing practices and gain access to their disciplinary communities of practice at Master’s level. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured in-depth focus...

This study focuses on the selected factors affecting teachers' implementation of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) curriculum in secondary schools in Bangladesh. The study is explorative, interpretivist, and qualitative in nature. A phenomenology approach, under qualitative method, was adopted to explore how teachers experience the phenomen...

Play is a social-centred process, able to boost motivation and promote learning across all levels and ages. With the growing push for creativity in the classroom as well as the application of effective technology in teaching and learning, it can be a daunting task for educators to find fitting competitive or game-based learning platforms. Foremost,...

This paper presents a case study that investigated and compared the stated beliefs and observed classroom practices relating to Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) of two ESL teachers. The findings of the study revealed that both the teachers hold similar complex beliefs that mostly contradict the philosophy of CLT. The practices were not in line...

The Academic Word List (AWL) was compiled by Coxhead (2000) and consists of 570 word families. Along with 2,000 of the most common English words, knowledge of the words represented in this list is vital for the overall academic performance of students. It is widely acknowledged that the most acute linguistic need for students is vocabulary, followe...

The Academic Word List (AWL) was compiled by Coxhead (2000) and consists of 570 word families. Along with 2,000 of the most common English words, knowledge of the words represented in this list is vital for the overall academic performance of students. It is widely acknowledged that the most acute linguistic need for students is vocabulary, followe...

Language learning strategies (LLS) and learner autonomy (LA) are believed to achieve a sustainable long-life learning process leading to a more reading competence (O’malley & Chamot, 1990; Oxford, 1990). LA is a pedagogical imperative inasmuch as language is largely an autonomous activity (Kumaravadivelu, 2006). This study examines the improvement...