BAO, ZHIMING
Associate Professor
PhD M.I.T.

Tel: 65-6516-7833
Office: AS5-05-20
E-mail: ellbaozm {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellbaozm
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellbaozm/

Currently teaching:
• EL2202 The Sound System of English (Sem 1)
• EL3201 Morphology and Syntax (Sem 1)
• EL5202 The Grammar of Modern English (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Contact linguistics – theories of creole genesis
• Theoretical linguistics – tone, accent, and stress

HIRAMOTO, MIE
Asssitant Professor
PhD MA BA Hawaii Manoa

Tel: 65-6516-3932
Office: AS5-05-08
E-mail: ellmh {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:

Currently teaching:
• EL3211 Language in Contact (Sem 2)
• EL6770 Graduate Research Seminar (Sem 2)

Research interests:
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KIM, CHONGHYUCK
Assistant Professor
PhD Delaware., MA BA Chonbuk National University Korea

Tel: 65-6516-6036
Office: AS5-05-33
E-mail: ellkc {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellkc

Currently teaching:
• EL2201 Structure of Sentences and Meanings (Sem 1)
• EL3880A Semantics in Generative Grammar (Sem 2)
• EL4201 Syntax (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Syntax-Semantics Interface: Number, Reflexives, Pronominals, Question, Negation
• Comparative Syntax/Semantics: Korean, Japanese, Javanese, Indonesian
• First Language Acquisition

LAZAR, MICHELLE M
Associate Professor
PhD Lanc., MA BA (Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-3700
Office: AS5-03-12
E-mail: ellmml {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmml

Currently teaching:
• EL4254 Language, Ideology, and Power (Sem 1)
• EL5253 Textual Construction of Knowledge (Sem 1)
• EL3254 Media, Discourse, and Society (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Multimodality (special interest in Visual Semiotics)
• Gender and Feminism
• Media Discourse
• Political Discourse

MOHANAN, K. P.
Professor
PhD MS M.I.T., MA Meerut, BSc Kerala, Dip TE CIE&F Langs

Tel: 65-6516-6042
Office: AS5-05-11
E-mail: ellkpmoh {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellkpmoh/

Currently teaching:
• EL5200 Linguistic Argumentation (Sem 1)

Research interests:
• Linguistic theory (syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology)
• Academic inquiry; Critical and creative thinking in education

OH, TOMASINA
Assistant Professor
PhD MPhil Camb., BA Sci. U.Malaysia

Tel: 65-6516-6125
Office: AS5-05-21
E-mail: elltmoss {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elltmoss

Currently teaching:
• EL3206 Psycholinguistics (Sem 1)
• EL5206 Advanced Psycholinguistics (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Spoken language impairments, Bilingual aphasia
• Language and the brain
• Construction of assessments for patients with language impairment

O'HALLORAN, KAY
Associate Professor & Director of the Multimodal Analysis Lab at the Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI), NUS
PhD Murd., BEd (Hons 1st Class) BSc DipEd W.Aust.

Tel: 65-6516-3999
Office: AS5-03-02
E-mail: ellkoh {at} nus.edu.sg, idmkoh{at}nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/Course/ellkoh/

Research interests:
• Multimodal Discourse Analysis
• Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)
• Scientific and Mathematical Discourse; Multisemiotic Texts
• Relations between Language, Discourse, Ideology and Power

OOI, VINCENT B Y
Associate Professor
PhD Lanc., MA BA (Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-6032
Office: AS5-05-12
E-mail: vinceooi {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellooiby
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellooiby

Currently teaching:
On Sabbatical leave in Sem 1.
• EL3216 Language and the Internet (Sem 2)
• EL4216 Lexicology and Lexicography (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Corpus-based language studies; Notions of standard English
• Theory and practice of the lexicon; Lexicogrammar
• Language and the Internet; the English of e-communities in Southeast Asia

PAKIR, ANNE
Associate Professor & Director, International Relations Office (IRO)
PhD Hawaii, MA UC Berkeley, BA (Hons) DipEd Univ of Singapore

Tel: 65-6516-6040
Office: AS5-05-24
E-mail: ellannep {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellannep

Research interests:
• Language Policy; Language Planning
• World Englishes; English in Southeast Asia
• Baba Malay

PARK, JOSEPH SUNG-YUL
Assistant Professor
PhD UC Santa Barbara, MA Texas (Arlington), MS Hanyang (Korea), BS Seoul National University

Tel: 65-6516-6043
Office: AS5-05-18
E-mail: ellpjs {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellpjs

Currently teaching:
• EL2251 Social Variation in English (Sem 1)
• EL3251 Language, Society and Identity (Sem 2)
• EL5250 Sociolinguistic Argumentation (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Language ideology; linguistic construction of identity
• Language & globalisation; English as an international language
• Discourse analysis; conversation analysis; interactional linguistics

TALIB, ISMAIL S
Associate Professor
PhD E.Anglia, MA NUS, BA (Hons) Univ of Singapore

Tel: 65-6516-6045
Office: AS5-03-04
E-mail: ellibst {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellibst
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/ellibst/index.html

Currently teaching:
• EL3880B Cinematic Discourse and Language (Sem 1)
• EL4221 Narrative Structures (Sem 2)
• GEK1049 Introduction to Narrative (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Narratology; Stylistics
• Postcolonial theory ; Postcolonial literatures and Singapore literature in English

TAN, PETER KOK WAN
Senior Lecturer
PhD Edin., BA (Hons) Univ of Malaya

Tel: 65-6516-6038
Office: AS5-06-04
E-mail: elltankw {at} nus.edu.sg

Web pages:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elltankw
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elltankw

Currently teaching:
• EL4252 Interactional Discourse (Sem 1)
• EL2211 Historical Variation in English (Sem 2)
• TS4213 Stylistics of Drama (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Literary stylistics
• Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis and pragmatics
• History and development of English, especially in Singapore and Malaysia

WEE, LIONEL H A
Associate Professor
PhD UC Berkeley. MA BA (Hons) NUS

Tel: 65-6516-6047
Office: AS5-03-16
E-mail: ellweeha {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellweeha

Currently teaching:
• EL3252 Language Planning & Policy (Sem 1)
• EL4255 English as a World Language (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Cognitive linguistics, especially metaphor and metonymy
• Language policy and language planning; Political discourse
• Structure of Malay, Singapore English

WANG, XIN
Assistant Professor
PhD MA Arizona. BA Beijing Lang & Culture U

Tel: 65-6516-3918
Office: AS5-06-07
E-mail: ellwx {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellwx

Currently teaching:
• EL3208 Bilingualism (Sem 1)
• EL1101E The Nature of Language (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Second Language Processes and Acquisition
• Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism

WIGNELL, PETER F.
Visiting Senior Fellow
PhD Sydney, MA Macquarie, BA Hons Sydney

Tel: 65-6516-3940
Office: AS5-03-13
E-mail: ellpfw {at} nus.edu.sg

Currently teaching:
• EL4880 Topics in English Language: Systemic Functional Grammar (Sem 1)
• EL5881 Linguistic Theories and Frameworks (Sem 1)
• EL5270 Explorations in Applied Linguistics (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• The role of language in the construction of specialised knowledge
• The application of systemic functional linguistic theory to literacy education
• Discourse analysis

ZIEGELER, DEBRA P.
Visiting Fellow
PhD BA (Hons) Monash

Tel: 65-6516-3926
Office: AS5-05-19
E-mail: ellzdp {at} nus.edu.sg

Web page:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellzdp

Currently teaching:
• EL3203 Semantics and Pragmatics (Sem 1)
• EL3880C Grammaticalisation (Sem 2)

Research interests:
• Grammaticalisation, Grammatical semantics, Gricean pragmatics, international Englishes