If you go to any of the big bookstores, and peruse the English language shelves, you will probably find books that have either EFL or ESL written on the cover. These are […]
Kenapa perfect tense susah sangat
Note: experimenting with explaining English grammar in Malay. Apabila saya mengajar bab Tense dalam Bahasa Inggeris, saya sering mendengar keluhan pelajar pelajar saya yang mengatakan itu susah, ini susah. Paling kuat kedengaran […]
The English language and the imagined pedestal
I am sometimes surprised to hear archaic, misguided and misinformed ideas being rehashed today. more than a decade into the new millennium. This morning, I read of another such instance. Here is […]
What happens in your mind when you try to compose a sentence
Sam has an idea and he wants to put the idea into a sentence. [S] Sam’s idea is about A boy doing something to a ball [S [Boy][KICK][ball]] Sam realises that he […]
Not-so-strange ideas behind linguistics
A student once asked me to put linguistics in context. That was not such an easy thing to do but I looked up something and this a little of what I came […]
Haw tuu learn Iiingleesh
The day before yesterday, Dr Zahari suggested that I write tips for learning English for this blog. Yesterday, another friend asked me for suggestion on how she could get her four year […]
ENGLISH STUDIES FB GROUP
Interested in keeping up-to-date with curated news and views related to the discipline of English Studies? Then come to “English Studies @ OUM” FaceBook Public Group run by Dr David Lim, the […]
Cluster of Education & Social Sciences, OUM 