Ng Chiew Hong

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at National Institute of Education

At the tertiary level, skimming has been viewed as either an essential reading skill or dismissed as a skill too basic to be taught. As an exploratory study, this paper looks at theoretical conceptions of skimming, examines studies dealing with skimming as a reading skill and strategy, usage of skimming in reading academic texts as well as skimming...

This article deals with the challenges in training English language preservice teachers in the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach through adopting synchronous online teaching using Zoom and the development of CLT tasks in the time of COVID-19. It outlines the teaching context, explains the rationale for training preservice teachers in t...

This paper examines the incorporation of new literacies to an adapted framework by Parsons et al. in Journal of Computers, 2(4), 1-8, (2007) to design mobile learning applications for “Elements of Business Skills (EBS)” for a group of lower academic ability secondary school learners in Singapore. Accounts of the actual process of designing a mobile...

In this paper I explore four groups of pre-service teachers’ teaching of critical literacy in microteaching to examine how they translated critical literacy into teaching practice for secondary/upper middle grade students (the role played by peers undergoing microteaching). Firstly I discuss some key concepts and outline the pedagogical framework a...

This paper reviews research on teaching and learning English for international communication in diverse contexts for international medical graduates (IMGs) using medical English as a lingua franca. Through keyword searches in Scopus and EBSCOhost research databases of English-medium peer-reviewed refereed journals from 2008 to 2022, 33 articles wer...

This chapter provides a review of studies published between 2000 and 2022 that focus on the culture of research in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The authors reviewed 50 research articles found through searches of the Scopus and EBSCOhost databases using combinations of these key terms: teacher-researcher, TES...

Mindset theories have been applied to study motivation in various domains, with researchers talking about different mindsets in diverse academic domains. The domain specificity of mindsets has led second language researchers to suggest distinct mindsets concerning language ability and learning outcomes. While there is no lack of research on the app...

Growing interest in digital social reading (DSR) has led to research on the use of social annotations in digital learning, but there is yet to be a comprehensive review specifically on DSR for second language (L2). This paper aims to fill the gap by synthesizing 28 research papers published in English-medium refereed journals from 2010 to 2022 to d...

Educators have long recognized that a major challenge for students learning to read and write effectively may be related to the medium of instruction in schools. To identify and evaluate the current state of empirical evidence, this chapter synthesizes current research on the enactment of bi- and multilingual policy in two interesting former Britis...

This chapter synthesizes eighteen reflections on language teacher identity research through the analytic framework of pragmatistic, critical, hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches and perspectives. These eighteen applied linguistics scholars from Spain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Austria, Slovakia, New Zealand, Brazil, Columbia, Icela...

Much research has investigated the language policy of English language teaching in the European Union. However, a systematic review of research literature that focuses on the conceptual frameworks and the benefits and challenges of teaching and learning English at the tertiary level would offer a valuable means to bring together and unpack claims m...

The paper draws on two drama series in Asia and demonstrates that studying issues related to gender roles and equality through popular historical Asian drama series is both challenging and fruitful. The present study not only illustrates the complexity involved in studying gender roles and gender equality, but also suggests several teaching pedagog...

Besides enhancing Persian academic reading, in an English only research world, Persian academic stakeholders have to master English and/or Persian academic writing to disseminate findings globally to members of different disciplinary communities through Persian and English language as a lingua franca. This chapter uses the method of qualitative met...

This research investigates how elementary teachers mediate the learning of writing through a socio-cognitive approach. The study reveals how in effective instructions for writing development, teachers can build narrative knowledge in a socio-cognitive approach through these types of instructional scaffolding: explicit outcomes and expectations, mod...

With academic writing now viewed as an important part of English language instruction, research studies have seen an increased emphasis on the question of how innovations in writing instruction impact students’ writing outputs. Using the method of qualitative metasynthesis, this study provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of 60 empirical...

To understand the responses of diverse groups towards the issue of pulping of certain 'controversial' books such as And Tango Makes Three with a gay theme, especially in the context of public access of these books, this paper looks at the complexity of reading stances towards children's literature. Children's literature serves various purposes: gno...

This paper looks at teachers’ cognition (knowledge, beliefs, principles and theories) about grammar pedagogy. Teacher cognition in grammar teaching is examined in terms of approaches to grammar teaching; whether teachers’ lessons were influenced by their schooling experience, teacher education or classroom experience and whether the lesson plans su...

This study is an investigation into pupil's comprehension abilities, specifically the issue of whether students can improve their question answering and inferential skills after explicit teaching of two inferential comprehension strategies. MASTER OF ARTS(APPLIED LINGUISTICS)