Sem. 2 2023/24

LAM1201, LAM2201, LAM3201, LAM3202, LAM4201, DYOC 1401L01

Lecturer Sem. 1 2023/24

• 2023/24 Sem.1. DYOC 1401 Spoken Cantonese; LAM3201 Malay 3; LAM3202 Malay 4.

Coordinator Sem. 1 2023/24

• LAM1201 Malay 1; LAM2201 Malay 2

Teaching

• 2022/23 Sem 2: LAM1201; LAM3201; LAM4202
• 2022/23 Sem. 1: LAM1201; LAM2201; DMA 1401L01 Cantonese
• 2021/22 Sem. 2: LAM3201; LAM2201
• 2021/22 Sem. 1: LAM3202; LAM2201; DMA1402L01 Cantonese Nostalgia (17)
• 2020/21 Sem. 2: LAM2201; LAM3201.
• 2020/21 Sem. 1: LAM2201; LAM3202; DMA1401L01 Cantonese (39 + 1)
• 2019/2020 Sem. 2: LAM 2201: Malay 2 (50); LAM 3201: Malay 3 (12); DMA1401CLS: Hokkien (38 + 3)

Administration

• Invited supervisor DMA1401L01 by Moses Ang [Social work] 4 Jan 2024
• Invited Internal Review. Singapore 1 Nov.
• Invited External Review Malaysia 8 Sept 2023
• Invited External Review USA 28 Aug 2023 
• Review Committee Member, MOE 2023 -2028
• Invited supervisor DMA1401L01 by Meryl Chua [Engineering] 31 May 2023
• Invited referee for Languages, 15 Jan 2023
• Invited Supervisor DYOM1401L01 by Madelene Kim Lee Hui [Engineering]
• Convenor of Malay Language Programme.
• Editor and Review Editor of Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching [Scopus] 2015 - present
• International Advisory Board Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication [Scopus] 2017 - present

Awards

• Member of Learning Circle funded by Teaching Grant from CDTL, NUS, Apr 2021-Mar 2022
• Visiting lecturer at University of Malaya (2019)
• AUA Scholar (2019-2020)
• Hadiah karya kencana DBP Kuala Lumpur (2011)
• Outstanding Contribution MOE Singapore (2004)

Work selected as resource

• http://malaycivilization.com.my/items/show/131090
• https://repository.globethics.net/handle/20.500.12424/2465692
• http://www.malrep.uum.edu.my/rep/Record/my-ukm.journal.10018 

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Forthcoming. Grammaticalization via lenition/fortificattion of glottis in Malay. in revision.

Sew, J. W. (2023). Spoken Cantonese assessments in “Design Your Own Course” [Paper presentation]. In Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) 2023, 7 December, National University of Singapore. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/hecc2023proceedings/spoken-cantonese-assessments-in-design-your-own-course/

Sew J.W. (2023). Sepintas wajah politik. Dewan Masyarakat 60 Dec.

Sew J.W. (2023). Media televisyen lantunan suara demokrasi. Dewan Masyarakat 60 Aug.

Sew J.W. (2023). Applying dedicatory pantun of separation in oral assessment as blended learning outcome. Melayu: Jurnal Antarabangsa Dunia Melayu 16(2), 287-314.

Sew J. W. (2022). Tanpa ayat tiada wacana. Pelita Bahasa 34(11), 21-23.

Sew, J.W. (2022). Penilaian Kemahiran Mendengar Bahasa Melayu. Pelita Bahasa 34(8), 38-39.

Sew J. W. (2022). Review of  J.C. Wakefield ed. 'Cantonese as Second Language'. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 18(1), 227-232. [Recommended in ResearchGate]

Sew J.W. (2020). Digitized identity of Malay language learners at tertiary level. Journal of Malay Studies 31(1).

Scopus-cited publication

Sew J. W. (2020). Hokkien as heritage language of citizenry in Singapore. Issues in Language Studies 9(2).

Sew, J.W. (2020). Teaching noun classifiers in Malay as foreign language: A case of application of translanguaging method.                                                                               Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 17, Suppl. 2, 505-521.

Sew, J.W. (2018). Pengajaran keratabahasa Melayu peringkat universiti. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 15, Suppl. 1, 214-228.

Sew, J.W. (2017). Watching Singapore drag comedian: A semiotic analysis of Kumar in a YouTube video. Archipel 94, 121-142. [ISI]

Sew, J.W. (2017). Laporan Pencapaian Universiti: Satu Renungan dari Asia Tenggara. Kajian Malaysia 35(1), 117-131.

Sew, J.W. (2016). Aspect in Malay: Realigning time and volition to Malay events. Issues in Language Studies 5(1), 44-63.

Sew, J.W. (2014). Penilaian Jurnal Akademik. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies 32(2), 113-144.

Sew, J.W. (2015). Semiotics of performing in Najwa Latif’s music videos. Malaysian Journal of Communication 33(2), 299-321.

Sew, J.W. (2015). Assessing Malay proficiency at tertiary level: Criteria features in learner language. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies 33(1), 19-41.

Sew, J.W. (2015). Cultural literacy in Chinese and Malay. WORD 61(2), 165-177. [ISI]

Sew, J.W. (2015). Aspects of cultural intelligence in idiomatic Asian cultural scripts. WORD 61(1), 12-24. [ISI]

Sew, J.W. (2013). Ke Arah Penilaian, Perkembangan dan Pemupukan Bahasa Melayu Supranasional. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies 31(2), 87-104.

Sew, J.W. (2012). Ummi's Obedience in Marriage: A critical study of Shahnon's Ummi & Abang Syeikhul. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities 19(2), 79-103.

Sew, J.W. (2012). Learning Malay Online At Tertiary Level. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies 12(1), 147-162.

Sew, J.W. (2011). Pandangan Alternatif Pada Analisis Semantik Kognitif Imbuhan BeR-. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 11(2), 155-170.

Sew, J.W. (1998). Sutanto Atmosumarto 'Colloquial Indonesian: A Complete Language Course'. Language Problems and Language Planning 22.

Sew, J.W. (1997). Power Pragmatics in Asian Languages. Language Sciences 19(4), 357-367.

Book-length publications

Sew, J.W. (2017). From face to screen: Interactive multimodal semiotics at work. Kota Samarahan, Sarawak: UNIMAS Press. [Reviewed in Kajian Malaysia]

Sew, J.W. (2010). Persembahan@Media.com. Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press.

Sew, J.W. (2009). Semiotik persembahan wacana. Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press.

Sew, J.W. (2007). Reduplicating nouns and verbs in Malay: A conceptual analysis. Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press. Available on Shopee.

Cited in Wikipedia

Sew, J.W. (2006). Review of Literacy in the New Media Age. Discourse & Society 17(1) in Literacy in the New Media Age.

Sew, J.W. (2009). T. Kawaguchi & F. Yamakawa, D.D.D. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 16 in Fuyuki Yamakawa

Sew, J.W. (2006) Review of Joe L. Kincheloe's Multiple Intelligences Reconsidered. Discourse in Society, 17 in Joe L. Kincheloe

Sew, J.W. (2017). Watching Singapore drag comedian: A semiotic analysis of Kumar in a YouTube video. Archipel 94, 121-142. [ISI]

Other publications

Sew, J.W. (2019). Kekuatan Bahasa Melayu. Dewan Bahasa 19(4), 48-51.

Sew, J.W. (2019). Ah Tong dan pembelajaran bahasa. Dewan Bahasa 19(2), 22-24.

Sew, J.W. (2019). Supranahu memacu Bahasa Melayu. Dewan Bahasa 19(1), 40-44.

Sew, J.W. (2019). Review of 'Seri Sembang Munsyi: Peribahasa'. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 17(1), 172-175.

Sew, J.W. (2018). Pantun dan pelajar asing. Dewan Bahasa 18(10), 58-62.

Sew, J.W. (2018). Pembauran kod dalam pedagogi bahasa Melayu. Dewan Bahasa 18(9), 48-51.

Sew, J.W. (2018). Muhamad Haji Salleh, ‘Pantun: The Poetry of Passion’. Archipel 96, 187-188.

Sew, J.W. (2017). ‘Chinese as Second Language, Vol. 51’. WORD 63(1), 100-114.

Sew, J.W. (2017). Learning Malay with poems: From understanding stylistics to blogging poetic expressions. Issues in Language Studies 6(2), 45-64.

Sew, J.W. (2016). Analisis kajian sastera: Semiotik dalam novel Anwar Ridhwan. Akademika 86(2), 53-63.

Sew, J.W. (2010). Ramesh Meyyappan (Singapore) in collaboration with Spike Theatre (UK), Gin and Tonic and Passing Trains. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 23. Retrieve April 18, 2019 from http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue23/sew_review.htm

Sew, J.W. (2009). T. Kawaguchi & F. Yamakawa, D.D.D. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 16. Retrieve April 18, 2019 from http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue20/sew_review.htm

Sew, J.W. (2007). Aidli 'Alin' Mosbit (Writer & Director), Impenjarament [Imprisonment]. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 15. Retrieve April 18, 2019 from http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue15/sew_review3.htm

Sew, J.W. (2007). Eighth International Busker Festival in Singapore. California Linguistc Notes 32(2). Retrieve April 18, 2019 from http://english.fullerton.edu/publications/clnArchives/pdf/sew_busters.pdf

Sew, J.W. (2006). Parinya Charoenphol (Nong Toom), Boxing Cabaret. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 14.  http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue14/jyh_review.html

Iconicity. The Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 1, edited by Philipp Strazny (pp. 487-488). New York: Routledge. (2005). Peer-cited

Onomatopoeia, & Standard Language. The Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 2, edited by Philipp Strazny (pp. 796-797).  New York: Routledge. (2005).

Standard Language. The Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol. 2, edited by Philipp Strazny (pp. 1036-1037).  New York: Routledge. (2005).

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Peer-citation 2024

Hokkien as a heritage language of citizenry in Singapore 

• Z Szklarz - 2024 Chinese Economic Behavior in Southeast Asia: A Historical and Cultural Overview of the Migration Patterns, Culture, and Business Practices of the Chinese Diaspora. Bachelor Science, Business School. Uni. of Montana. 

Applying dedicatory pantun of separation in oral assessment as a blended learning outcome. Melayu: Jurnal Antarabangsa Dunia Melayu 16(2), 287-314.

• Ainah, Jumadi & Dwi Wahyu C. D. (2024). Variasi pantun dan fungsinya dalam komunikasi sosial, Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 6(1), 32-42.

 

 

Peer-citation 2023

Aspects of cultural intelligence in idiomatic Asian cultural script. Word, 61(1), 2015.

• Suryadimulya Agus Suherman et al. (2023). Unveiling cultural intelligence: A comparative study of Japanese and Indonesian idiomatic expressions. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 13(1), 1-12. 

Reduplicating nouns and verbs in Malay: A conceptual analysis. Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press, 2007.

• RTA Mohamed Salleh, B.D. Biase, & S. Kawaguchi (2023). The bilingual development of plural marking in a Malay-English child. In S. Kawaguchi  B.D. Biase, Y. Yamguchi (eds.), Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• RTA Mohamed Salleh, et al. (2022). The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Hokkien as heritage language of citizenry in Singapore. Issues in Language Studies 9(2) [Scopus].

• Ong, T.W.S., & Ting, SH. (2023). Children deciding the family language in Chinese families in multiethnic Malaysia. Notion: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Culture 5(1), 32-46. 

Pandangan alternatif pada analisis semantik kognitif imbuhan BeR. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 11(2), 155-170.

• Burhan M.B, Sharil N.S., Rohaidah K. (2023)  Penelitian Kajian Tentang Perkembangan Imbuhan Bahasa Melayu dalam Kalangan Kanak- Kanak. In Nurul Fadly Habidin, Tuan Waheda Tuan Chik, Ummu Aiman Muhamad (eds.),  Isu-Isu Penyelidikan dalam pendidikan dalam sains sosial di Malaysia, pp. 80-90. Tanjong Malim, Perak: Kaizentrenovation Sdn Bhd.
• Burhan M. Baharon, Sharil N. Shari', & Rohaidah Kamaruddin. (Jun, 2022). Penggunaan imbuhan bahasa Melayu dalam kalangan kanak-kanak berumur 8 tahun. Persidangan Antarabangsa Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan ke-7, hlm. 237-249. Serdang, Selangor: UPM
• Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini (2021). Polisemi Kata “Bebas”: Analisis Semantik Kognitif. INTERNATIONAL YOUNG SCHOLARS JOURNAL OF LANGUAGES 4(1), 124-139.

 Analisis Kajian Sastera: Semiotik Dalam Novel Anwar Ridhwan. Akademika 86, 53-63.

• Saipuddin, M.S. et al. (2023). Puisi konkrit: Satu pendekatan berdasarkan analisis semiotik. Pendeta 14(1), 1-12. 
• M Mohammad Shahmin - 2023. Kontradiksi aspek didaktik dalam puisi terpilih Usman Awang: kajian daripada teori semiotik. Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Honours' Thesis.
• A. Amat, R Adama (2021). Dunia Hampir Bergabung dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Laron oleh Jasni Matlani: Satu Bacaan Realisme Magis. Akademika 91(1).

From South Asian echo formation to Cantonese phonetic repetition. The International Journal of Language, Society and Culture 24. 72–83.

• Van Hoey, T. (2033). ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics 34.

Review of John Lyons. Linguistics semantics: an introduction. Journal of Linguistics 33(2), 643-651.

• Development of an Arabic test for assessment of semantics for the Arabic-speaking children. The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology 39. (2023).
• Adrian, MRF Nugraha. (2022). Analysis of Semantic relation in short Story. Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa 9(2). 

Review of Othman, Z., & Atmosumarto, S. (1996). Colloquial Malay: A Complete Language Course. Oceanic Linguistics, 35(2), 317.

• M.S. Ismail & A. Sarudin 2023. Systematic Literature Review: Interpretation of “Lah” Discourse Particles in Malaysian Speech. GEMA Online: Journal of Language Studies 23(1).

Review of Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts Psycholinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. Linguistische Berichte. (pp. 481-484).

• Fardilla A. & Daulay S.H. 2023. Language Acquisition Process in Children Aged 4 Years: Syntactic Development Stage. Elite Journal 5(1).

Author Acknowledgment: Man, emotion, and humor in Malay Proverbs. In Abdul Wahad Md. Ali (2022). Keluarga dalam Kitab Kitaran Budi. Dewan Budaya 44(3),40-43.

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Invited Talk and Conferences

Spoken Cantonese Assessments In Design Your Own Course. Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) 2023, Shaw Foundation, NUS, 7 Dec.

A Pedagogy Design for Spoken Cantonese. AUA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON CORPUS LINGUISTICS, University Malaya, 24-25 Nov 2023 

The ABC of Spoken Cantonese as DYOC at NUS. CLS Chat Session, The Deck NUS, 6 Oct., 2023.

Organizing Spoken Cantonese: From the Virtual to Real Classroom. 12th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Penang, August 2023.

Dedicatory Pantun in Malay Conversation as Blended Learning Outcome. HIGHER EDUCATION CAMPUS CONFERENCE 2022: Forging Ahead Beyond the Pandemic 7-8 Dec. 2022.

Blended learning outcome in Malay oral: Reminiscing alienation with pantun. THE 9TH CLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Foreign Language Education in the 21st Century: Review Re-conceptualise and Re-align 1-3 Dec. 2022.

Assessing a Spoken Cantonese module based on Student Feedback. 3rd International Conference on Language Studies, UNIMAS, Kuching, Sarawak, 8-9 Sept. 2021.

What do students want? DYOM Learning Circle Discussion, CDTL Project, NUS, July 2021.

Reflective remediation in teaching Malay noun classifiers. 1st Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Learning Symposium, NUS, 9-10 Dec. 2019.

Education linguistic reflections on teaching noun classifiers in Malay. Dept. of Malaysian languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, 24 July 2019.

Unifying noun classifiers for teaching Malay at tertiary level. 7th University of Malaya Int’l. Conference on Discourse, Society & Interaction, 1-2 Aug. 2019, Hotel Villa Subang, Selangor.

Envisaging the Exigencies of Independent Spouses: Novel Reading in Intermediate Malay. The Asian Conference for Language Learning, 16-18 May 2019. Toshi Centre Hotel, Nagatacho, Tokyo, Japan.

Teaching noun classifiers in Malay as foreign language. CLASIC2018: THE EIGHT CLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, 6-8 Dec.

Hokkien as a heritage language for citizenry exploit in Singapore. 16th Malaysia Singapore Forum: Heritage as Process and Way of Life, University of Malaya, 20-21 Sept. 2018.

Developing onomatopoeia as teaching materials. 53rd RELC International Conference on 50 Years of English Language Teaching and Assessment - Reflections, Insights and Possibilities, 12 - 14 Mar 2018.

Teaching onomatopoeia as a strategy to cultural intelligence. 6th Discourse and Society International Conference, 5-6 Dec. 2017, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Malay mimetics in Asian onomatopoeia: Towards observational adequacy. Symposium on Common Languages in Southeast Asia. 19-20 June 2017 INALCO Paris.

Workshop: How to teach onomatopoeia in Intermediate Malay. Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference 31 May-2 June 2017. Nanyang Technnological University, Singapore.

Manuscript Review 2023-24

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Manuscripts reviewed in 2021-22

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• 4123
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• two book reviews
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• 21_03
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