Teh Hui Lin

Teh Hui Lin

Teh Hui Lin

  • Lecturer
English for Specific Academic Purposes

Biography

Teh Hui Lin has been teaching English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) since 2010. She was formerly a Personal Assistant to a Director in a shipping company for two years and had worked in a local bank for a year. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in English Language Studies (ESL) and a Master’s Degree in ESL from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and was involved in a research on literacy and graduate’s employability. Her PhD in English Language with a focus on academic writing and ESAP is nearing completion.

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Master in English Language Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia (2009)
  • BA (Hons) in English Language Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia (2004)

Research Interests

  • Academic reading and writing
  • Corpus analysis
  • ESAP and genre analysis
  • Teaching and learning

Notable Publications

  1. Teh, H. L., Abdullah, A. I., Tan, H., & Nimedchisalem, V. (2017, August). Information processing and eye movement analysis: Reading processes and identification of main ideas of ESL learners. Paper presented at the International Postgraduate Conference on Research in Education 2017, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
  2. Teh, H. L., Abdullah, A. I., Tan, H., & Nimedchisalem, V. (2016, November). Information processing and eye movement analysis in reading and writing. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2016, Melbourne.
  3. Teh, H. L. (2014). Scaffolding strategies as part of writing process: To improve academic writing skills in higher education. In Official Conference Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Language Learning 2014 (pp. 232–242). Retrieved from http://papers.iafor.org/wp-content/uploads/conference-proceedings/ACLL/ACLL2014_proceedings.pdf
  4. Teh, H. L. (2013, July). Reflections in informal peer observation: transformative tools for a novice teacher. Virtual paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Learning, Rhodes Island, Greece.
  5. Teh, H. L. (2012, May). Improving practice through peer observation. Paper presented at the 21st Melta International Conference, Kuala Lumpur.
  6. Teh, H. L. (2009). Literacies and employability in higher education and the workplace: Perceptions of academics and graduates from the Malaysian public universities’ (a sub-strand of FRGS research UKM-SK-05-FRGS0007-2006). Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor.
  7. Teh, H. L. (2004). A psychoanalytical study of four major characters in the play, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor.