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Faculty of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Faculty of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts

Associate Professor Dr Wong Bee Eng

Associate Professor

Academic Qualifications

PhD (Linguistics)                               
Bachelor of Education (TESL)            
Bachelor of Education (TESOL)

Areas of Interest
L2 acquisition of syntax, morphology, morphosyntax
L2 acquisition/learning of vocabulary
Language Assessment and Testing at the workplace
Discourse studies
TESL
Research

Project: Specific Language Development, Testing and Assessment at the Workplace
 

Postgraduate Supervision UCSI

15 PhD in Education

Publications

  • Mahdun, M., Chan, M. Y., Yap, N. T., Mohd Kasim, Z., & Wong, B. E. (2022). Production Errors and Interlanguage Development Patterns of L1 Malay ESL Learners in the Acquisition of the English Passive. Issues in Language Studies, 11(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.4023.2022
  • Wong, B. E. & Ho, S. W. (2021). A Targeted English Language for Specific Purposes Development Program for the Workplace. In Chiper, S. & Zorbas, V. (Eds), Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Pedagogy (pp. 62-73). Generis Publishing
  • Malaiappan, V. & Wong, B. E. (2020). Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Malaysian L1 Tamil Speakers. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 28 (1), 121-142; ISSN: 0128-7702; eISSN: 2231-8534
  • Quek, S. T. & Wong, B. E. (2020). Is that different from the? Journal of Studies in Education, 10 (3), 21 pp. ISSN 2162-6952
  • Kwan, Erica Lee Yin and Wong, Bee Eng (2016). Acquisition of the present perfect and the simple past by Malaysian Chinese ESL learners. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 24 (2). pp. 867-888. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534
  • Muhammad, Umar Aliyu and Yap, Ngee Thai and Chan, Mei Yuit and Wong, Bee Eng (2016). Identification of Nigerian English idioms: a methodological perspective. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 34 (4), 279-288. ISSN 1607-3614; ESSN: 1727-9461
  • Tay, L. C., Chan, M. Y., Yap, N. T., Wong, B. E. (2016). Discourse Particles in Malaysian English What Do They Mean? Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 172, 479-509.
  • Abd Samad, Arshad and Wong, Bee Eng and Arshad, Nurul Iman and Kalpany, Kaaminy (2016) Accuracy of English pronoun use among Malaysian ESL 5-6 year old childrenand teaching implications in the Malaysian pre-school education context. In: 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016), 11 - 12 Nov. 2016, Bandung, Indonesia. (pp. 84-90).
  • Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Ho, S. W. & Wong, B. E. (2015). Delivering the ELEx Package: An English Language Experience Approach for Developing Undergraduates' Language Proficiency. Journal of Language and Communication, 2 (2), 119-132.

International Award

The Innovation in Assessment Prize 2019 awarded by the British Council.

Professional Membership

Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia

Evaluator/ Reviewer (Selected)

I was an active reviewer and evaluator of manuscripts for Pertanika (published by UPM), the Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (e-FLT) (published by National University of Singapore), 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies (published by UKM) dan International Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research (JIMAR) for UiTM, Segamat, as well as occasional publications by Buriram Rajabhat University in Thailand.

Recent review: (May 2020) The Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (TJL ISSN: 1729-4649).