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YBHG. PROFESOR DR. YAP NGEE THAI
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
ntyap@upm.edu.my
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PROFESSIONAL

NAME :
(Ybhg. Profesor Dr.) Yap Ngee Thai
POSITION :
Profesor
ENTITY :
Faculty Of Modern Languages And Communication

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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