People: PhD Research Scholars

Victor Lim Fei

Victor Lim Fei, is currently on the prestigious Ministry of Education (MOE)  Postgraduate Scholarship, with full-tuition fees waiver from NUS, for his PhD. He was previously on the Public Service Commission Scholarship for his BA (Hons) and completed the Accelerated Masters Programme under the NUS Research Scholarship. He joined MOE in 2004 as a General Paper Lecturer and held concurrent positions as Level Head and School Staff Developer. He was also awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and 2006 as well as the Teacher Researcher Award in 2006 and 2007.  
 
Victor’s research interests include multimodal discourse analysis, multimodal literacy, applied linguistics and language pedagogy. He has also published several papers in these areas.

Contact: Victor Lim Fei (victorlimfei@nus.edu.sg)

Liu Yu

Liu Yu is a research scholar in the Department of English Language and Literature in National University of Singapore. He received his MA (Language Studies) from NUS in 2005. He was a lecturer at Sichuan International Studies University, China and taught in the area of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). He was also a certified TOEFL IBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language, Internet-based Test) instructor.

His main research interests are Multimodal Discourse Analysis from Systemic Functional Perspectives (SF-MDA), multimodality in educational contexts and comparative studies of grammar with a cognitive approach. He authored three journal papers on English teaching and learning in China and a paper for the Fourth International Conference on Comparative Studies of Chinese Grammar held in Wuhan, China, Oct. 2007.

Liu Yu holds a NUS PhD Research Scholarship.

Contact: Liu Yu (liu.yu@nus.edu.sg)

Monica Owyong

Monica Owyong is a research scholar pursuing her postgraduate degree in the Multimodal Analysis Lab at the National University of Singapore. She is an alumna of Methodist Girls’ School. In her undergraduate days, Monica majored in Mathematics and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Merit) degree, before completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in the English Language. Upon graduation, she taught General Paper in Hwa Chong Junior College and found her passion for teaching there. After completing her six-year teaching bond, she returned to NUS to pursue her graduate studies.

Her main research interests include the construction, enactment and communication of multimodal semiotic meaning in animation film texts and digital gaming texts. She is particularly interested in examining how various ideological constructs are created in these texts and how these affect and influence animation viewers and gamers.

Monica Owyong holds a NUS PhD Research Scholarship which was upgraded from MA degree.

Contact: Monica Owyong (owyong@gmail.com)

Sabine Tan

Sabine Tan is a research scholar in English Language Studies at the National University of Singapore, pursuing her PhD at the Multimodal Analysis Lab. She received her Master of Arts in English Studies from the National University of Singapore in 2005. Prior to joining the academic field, she worked in the finance sector as an assistant vice president in administrative management, corporate communications, anti-money laundering, and compliance.

 
Her main research interests include social semiotics, visual communication, and multimodal discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in applications of systemic functional theory and its derivatives to the analysis of business discourses, corporate television advertisements, corporate web-pages, televisual and internet-based news discourse, and other emergent multimodal discourse genres. 

Sabine Tan has been awarded a NUS PhD Research Scholarship.

Contact: Sabine Tan (sabinetan@nus.edu.sg)