Debbie Guan Eng Ho
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Academic Qualifications
Cert Ed (Singapore)
Dip Business Stud (Bournemouth)
BA (UBD)
PhD (Adelaide)
Teaching
- Discourse analysis
- Language & society
- Language acquisition
- World Englishes
- Analysing talk
- Bilingualism
- Systemic Functional Grammar
Research Interests
- Systemic Functional Grammar
- Cross-cultural Pragmatics
- Language & Discourse
- World Englishes
Current Research Projects
- Investigating the syntactic constraints in code-switched Malay-English casual conversations in Brunei (started in August 2011). (see here)
Research Publications (in chronological order)
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Interviews. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Focus groups. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Ho, D. G. E., & Henry, A. (submitted 2011, under review). A text-based approach to writing in the ESL classroom. In M. B. Paradowski & E. Gajek (Eds.), Fostering Multilingual and Intercultural Competence. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). The focus group interview: rising to the challenge in qualitative research methodology. In G. Walden (Ed.), Focus Group Research (pp. 295-310). New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
Ho, D. G. E., Henry, A., & Alkaff, S. (2012). You don’t seem to know how to work: Malay & English spoken complaints in Brunei. Pragmatics 22(3), 391-417. (PDF Version)
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Review of Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung (R)evolution, by Cecilia Ng, Maznah Mohamad, Tan Beng Hui. South East Asia 12, 37-38. (Online Version)
Chin, G. V. S., Ho, D., & Sharifah Nurulhuda Alkaff. (2012) The Teaching of English Literature in the Bruneian ESL Secondary Classroom: A Preliminary Investigation. The International Journal of Learning 18(9), 117-134.
Henry, A., & Ho, D. G. E. (2010). The act of complaining in Brunei – then and now. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(2), 840-855.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Systemic textual analysis in the ESL writing classroom: Does it work? RELC Journal, 40(3), 333-359.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Systemic Text Analysis: A potential instruction tool in the ESL writing classroom. Procedia Social & Behavioural Sciences (1), 660-664.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Exponents of politeness in Brunei English. World Englishes, 28(1), 1-17.
Ho, D. G. E. (2008). English in the expanding circle – a third diaspora? Asian Englishes, 11(1), 36-50.
Ho, D. G. E. (2008). Mandarin as mother tongue school language in Brunei Darussalam – a case study. Paper presented at SEAMEO Workshop, 19-21 February 2008, Bangkok, Thailand (details). (on-line version)
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). Classroom talk: Exploring the sociocultural structure in formal ESL learning. Bern: Peter Lang AG.
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). The focus group interview: Rising to the challenge in qualitative research methodology. ARAL, 29(1), 05.1 – 5.19.
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). I don’t want west. I don’t want east. So how leh? English Today, 22(3), 10-16.
Ho, D. G. E. (2005). Talking grammar in the formal ESL classroom: Teacher talk in one grammar lesson. Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 5(1&2), 17-29. (PDF version)