PROFILE
UPM's Staff Profile
PROF. MADYA DR. CHAN MEI YUIT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
cmy@upm.edu.my
PROFESSIONAL
NAME :
(Prof. Madya Dr.) CHAN MEI YUIT
POST :
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ENTITY :
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
FIELD OF SUPERVISION
APPLIED COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS / DISCOURSE STUDIES / ENGLISH LANGUAGE / LITERACY STUDIES
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
B.A. Education (Hons.) (USM). Double major programme, specialising in English Language and Mathematics.
M.Sc. (HRD) (UPM). Research focus: Training and Development.
Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics) (Malaya).
TEACHING
Discourse analysis
Second language acquisition
English syntax and morphology
Seminar in applied linguistics studies
Psycholinguistics
Reading theory and practice
AREA OF SPECIALISATION
Applied linguistics
Discourse and communication studies
Language learning and acquisition
Language for specific purposes
RESEARCH AREA
Institutional and professional discourse practices
Language and communication in health and medical contexts
Discourses of indigenous communities
Language and cognition
RESEARCH PROJECT
2015
Developing a rhetorical and linguistic framework for the teaching and assessment of medical students; case presentations. Funded by GIPP-UPM. Principal investigator. 2015-2017.
2015
Investigating community level influences for successful entrepreneurial process: Towards developing an indigenous entrepreneurship education and training model for the Orang Asli community. Funded by FRGS. Co-investigator. 2015-2018.
2014
Effect of bilingualism and multilingualism on grey matter volume in the brain of Malaysian bilingual and trilingual speakers in Malaysia. Funded by FRGS. Co-investigator. 2014-2017.
2013
Conception of health and healthcare among the aboriginal Semai community: A discursive-ethnographic investigation. Funded by FRGS. Principal investigator. 2013-2016.
2013
Veterinarian-client-patient Language Use and Communication During Wellness Appointments in Veterinary Practice. Funded by UPM-Geran Putra (HNB Cluster). Co-investigator. 2013 - 2015.
2012
Interaction of Aural and Visual Cues in the Processing of Grammatical Morphemes in Online Self-paced Reading. Funded by UPM-RUGS. Co-investigator. 2012 - 2014.
2012
Genre analysis of oral case presentations by medical students. Funded by UPM-RUGS. Co-investigator. 2012-2014.
2012
Communication structure and dynamics of bedside teaching and learning. Funded by UPM-RUGS. Principal investigator. 2012-2015.
2011
Communication in Primary Healthcare Among Healthcare Providers in a Multilingual Society: An Exploratory Study. Funded by ERGS. Co-investigator. 2011 - 2014.
2011
Oral Communication Skills: Test Implementation and Validation, Stakeholders’ Perceptions, Instructional Strategies, and Vocabularies. Funded by UPM-RUGS. Co-investigator. 2011 - 2013.
2009
Participation in Public Discourse through Online Writing: Evaluating Malaysian Tertiary Students’ Readiness to Write the Talk. Funded by UPM-RUGS. Principal investigator. 2009 - 2011.
2008
Evaluation of the ELLIS language learning courseware. Funded by FBMK research grant. Co-investigator. 2008.
2004
Perceived Needs vs Wants: Exploring UPM Employees’ Goals of Learning English. Funded by FBMK research grant. Principal investigator. 2004.
PUBLICATION
2025
Unprompted Self-Disclosure in First Encounter Interactions: An Analysis of Getting-to-Know-You Conversations between New Acquaintances
2025
The effects of task types and working memory capacity on the writing production of Chinese EFL learners
2024
Drawing on social approval as a linguistic strategy: A discourse semantic analysis of Judgement evaluation in suspected online romance scammer dating profiles
2023
A Systematic Review of Second-Person Knowledge Acquisition in First-Encounter Interactions
2023
Overpassivisation in L2 Acquisition: An Examination of L1 Malay ESL Tertiary Students’ Passivisation of Intransitive Verbs in English
2022
Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: a linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals
2022
Question design in veterinary consultations: Question forms and client responses in accomplishing problem presentation in a Malaysian context
2022
Production errors and interlanguage development patterns of L1 Malay ESL learners in the acquisition of the English passive
2021
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts
2021
A Preliminary Study on the Use of Epithets in Kenyah Long Wat
2020
Discursive work in resisting stereotypic representations of the Chinese among Chinese students
2019
Doing Legitimacy in Talk: The Production of Leader-Follower Relationship in Spiritual Consultation Interactions
2019
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Product Information Brochure: How is Generic Structure Used to Persuade Potential Users?
2019
Scripted communication for service standardisation? What analysis of conversation can tell us about the fast-food service encounter
2018
English language needs of medical students in their clinical years: Lecturers’ and students’ perspectives
2017
Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia
2016
Discourse Particles in Malaysian English: What Do They Mean?
2016
Regularities and Irregularities in Rhetorical Move Structure of Linguistics Abstracts in Research Articles
2015
The Oral Case Presentation: Towards a Performance-Based Rhetorical Model for Teaching and Learning
2014
Hidden participation in the public sphere: Understanding Malaysian university students? public discourse practices in cyberspace
2012
Learning Culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian Undergraduate Students
2011
Engaging Students in Public Discourse Using iCT
2010
Encouraging participation in public discourse through online writing in ESL instruction
2009
NEEDS VS WANTS: COMPARING JOB-RELATED AND PERSONAL NEEDS OF UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING