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YBHG. PROFESOR DR. YAP NGEE THAI
PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
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PROFESSIONAL

NAME :
(Ybhg. Profesor Dr.) YAP NGEE THAI
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PROFESSOR
ENTITY :
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION

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FIELD OF SUPERVISION
APPLIED COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS / DISCOURSE STUDIES / ENGLISH LANGUAGE / LITERACY STUDIES
EDUCATION
PHD
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DELAWARE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Graduated : 2006
MASTER (PENDIDIKAN)
UNIVERSITI MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR
Graduated : 1999
BACELOR SASTERA (PENDIDIKAN)
UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA, PULAU PINANG
Graduated : 1991
BOOK PUBLICATION
1. Language learning:Challenges, approaches and collaboration
    ISPN: 978-3-639-31043-6
2. Language Learning: Challenges, Approaches, and Collaboration
    ISPN: 978-3-639-31043-6
3. Recent Research Topics in Malaysian English Language Studies
    ISPN: 978-967-344-261-4
4. Laguage Learning: Challenges, Approaches and Collaboration
    ISPN: 978-3-639-31043-6
JOURNAL PUBLICATION
1. Construction of the Malay Cross-linguistic Lexical Task: A Preliminary Report
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
2. Nonexhaustive syllabification in Temiar
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
3. Lexical Access in Production of Idioms by Proficient L2 Learners
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
4. The Influence of Cross-linguistic Similarities on L2 Idiom Production
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
5. Learning English Vowels by Iraqi EFL Learners: Perceived Difficulty versus Actual Performance
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
6. The Interrelation between the Perception and Production of English Monophthongs by Speakers of Iraqi Arabic
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
7. Representation of English Front Vowels by Malay-English Bilinguals
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
8. Perception of 'voicing' among Malaysian ESL learners
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
9. Identification of Nigerian English idioms: A methodological perspective
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
10. Auxiliary Fronting in Peranakan Javanese
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
11. Effectiveness of Morphemic Analysis of Graeco-Latin Word Parts as a Vocabulary Learning Strategy among ESL Learners
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
12. Issues and Challenges in Courseware Development: A Project Manager?s Perspective.
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
13. Measuring Grammatical Development in Bilingual Mandarin- English Speaking Children with a Sentence Repetition Task
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
14. REPRESENTATION OF MEANING IN IDIOMS IN SAN GUA YAN YI AND THEIR TRANSLATION IN THREE KINGDOMS
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
15. Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
16. Cross-Language Perception of Non-native Stops and Fricatives among Malay and Hausa Native Speakers
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
17. PERCEPTUAL LEARNING OF SYSTEMATIC VARIATION IN MALAYSIAN ENGLISH AMONG LIBYAN EFL LEARNERS
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
18. The Association between Vocabulary Size and Language Dominance of Bilingual Malay-English Undergraduates
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
19. Perception of English Lexical Stress: Some Insights for English Pronunciation Lessons for Iraqi ESL Learners
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
20. Incidental and Intentional Learning of Vocabulary among Young ESL Learners
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
21. An acoustic analysis of English vowels produced by Nigerian and Malaysian ESL speakers
    Journal type: MYCITE
22. Production of English Vowel by Libyan EFL learners: Insights from Unnormalized and Normalized Data
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
23. Speech Intelligibility Level Determinants and Measurement Methods
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
24. The Multilingual Picture Database
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Science Citation Index (JCR)
25. A Corpus-Based Comparative Study on Syntactic Complexity in University Students’ EFL Writing in Southwestern China: A Case of Pu’er University
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
26. A Review of Syntactic Complexity Studies in Context of EFL/ESL Writing
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
27. Explaining the Diversity in Malay-English Code-Switching Patterns: The Contribution of Typological Similarity and Bilingual Optimization Strategies
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
28. Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
29. Acquiring L2 Phonology: Foreign Accent and L1 InfluenceIn
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
30. Insights Into L1 and L2 Vocabulary Size Association: A Perspective From Elementary Pashto-English Sequential Bilinguals
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ERA
31. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Chinese Intonation Systems: An Auto-segmental Metrical Framework
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
32. Exploring linguistic predictors of academic reading comprehension among ESL undergraduates at a public university: A preliminary study
    Journal type: MYCITE
33. The relationship between cognitive control capacity and language dominance among Malay bilinguals
    Journal type: MYCITE
34. Assessing vocabulary size in Malaysian preschoolers: insights from the Malaysian English cross-linguistic lexical task and parents of multilingual children questionnaire
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
35. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Chinese Intonation Systems: An Auto- Segmental Metrical Framework
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2006
PhD (Linguistics), University of Delaware, USA
1999
Master of Education (TESL), University of Malaya, Malaysia
1991
BA (Ed) with Honours in Mathematics and English
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2013
Associate Professor, English Language Department, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
2009
Senior Lecturer
2006
Lecturer
2000
Tutor
1993
Language Teacher
1991
English lecturer, Tunku Abdul Rahman College
1991
School Teacher, SMK Bakong Miri
(Ministry of Education Malaysia)
CONSULTANCY SERVICES
2010
Translation of poems for Anthology of Southeast Asian poetry for Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
2009
English Language Workshop for support staff at Bioscience Institute, UPM
2008
Lecturer for Language Development Module, Linguistics Council
2008
Course synopsis development for Diploma in English for Communication at Kolej Gemilang
2008
English Language Workshop for support staff at Faculty of Education, UPM
2000
Writing Workshop for academic and administrative staff Faculty of Design and Architecture
1998
English Courses for Administrative staff, Institut Latihan DBKL
1997
English Courses for Administrative staff UPM
1995
English Courses for Lecturers and Administrative staff, Malaysia France Institute
1995
English Courses for Factory workers and supervisors, Yuta Plastic Industries, Bangi
1994
Self Development and Effective Listening Skills, Buddhist Counselling Services
PUBLICATION
2025
Assessing vocabulary size in Malaysian preschoolers: insights from the Malaysian English cross-linguistic lexical task and parents of multilingual children questionnaire
2023
Acquiring L2 Phonology: Foreign Accent and L1 InfluenceIn
2023
Effects of orthographic transparency on rhyme judgement
2023
Insights Into L1 and L2 Vocabulary Size Association: A Perspective From Elementary Pashto-English Sequential Bilinguals
2023
Predicting EFL Expository Writing Quality with Measures of Lexical Richness
2023
Subcortical restructuring as a function of multilingualism: Insights from monolinguals, bilinguals, trilinguals and quadrilinguals
2022
A Corpus-Based Comparative Study on Syntactic Complexity in University Students’ EFL Writing in Southwestern China: A Case of Pu’er University
2022
A Review of Syntactic Complexity Studies in Context of EFL/ESL Writing
2022
Explaining the Diversity in Malay-English Code-Switching Patterns: The Contribution of Typological Similarity and Bilingual Optimization Strategies
2022
Speech Intelligibility Level Determinants and Measurement Methods
2022
The Multilingual Picture Database
2021
Production of English Vowel by Libyan EFL learners: Insights from Unnormalized and Normalized Data
2020
Intelligibility of English vowels produced by Nigerian and Malaysian speakers
2020
Performance in Nonword Repetition Tasks among Mandarin-English Bilingual Children in Malaysia
2019
PERCEPTUAL LEARNING OF SYSTEMATIC VARIATION IN MALAYSIAN ENGLISH AMONG LIBYAN EFL LEARNERS
2019
Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian
2019
Cross-Language Perception of Non-native Stops and Fricatives among Malay and Hausa Native Speakers
2019
Incidental and Intentional Learning of Vocabulary among Young ESL Learners
2018
The Association between Vocabulary Size and Language Dominance of Bilingual Malay-English Undergraduates
2018
Perception of English Lexical Stress: Some Insights for English Pronunciation Lessons for Iraqi ESL Learners
2016
Learning English Vowels by Iraqi EFL Learners: Perceived Difficulty versus Actual Performance
2016
The Interrelation between the Perception and Production of English Monophthongs by Speakers of Iraqi Arabic
2016
Identification of Nigerian English idioms: A methodological perspective
2015
Effectiveness of Morphemic Analysis of Graeco-Latin Word Parts as a Vocabulary Learning Strategy among ESL Learners
2012
Lexical Access in Production of Idioms by Proficient L2 Learners
2012
The Influence of Cross-linguistic Similarities on L2 Idiom Production
2010
Representation of English Front Vowels by Malay-English Bilinguals
2008
Auxiliary Fronting in Peranakan Javanese