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Research Grants
Our ELL faculty are active researchers involved in multiple research and teaching grants. This page features a selection of grants awarded in the last three years.
| Year awarded | Project Title | Name of ELL Faculty | Funding Source | Award Amount |
| 2024 | 2023 Translation Project of Chinese Academic Works: English Translation of Modern Chinese Sociology (Revised and enlarged edition) | Mao Feng (moderator) | Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences | 450,000 RMB (before tax) |
| 2024 | Assessment as learning in writing classrooms supported by technology and AI | Prof Icy Lee [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $340,242 |
| 2024 | Reading Futures Study: A Longitudinal Cross-Case Comparison of Adolescents’ Print and Digital Reading Practices | A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI] A/P Victor Lim Fei [Co-PI] | ERFP - MOE | $2,060,209 |
| 2023 | Transforming Pedagogy in the Digital Era: An Exploration of Digital Literacy and Its Empowering Potential in Singapore’s Secondary Chinese Language Classrooms | Han Yiting [PI] | Singapore Ministry of Education Ring-Fenced Fund | $235,207.20 |
| 2023 | Evaluating Reading Gain from a Mobile Library Intervention in a Low-Income Neighbourhood | A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI] | NUS Singapore Mobility Foundation Grant | $49,550 |
| 2023 | The Singapore Student Digital Literacies Profile | A/P Victor Lim Fei [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $127,336 |
| 2021 | Designing School Libraries of the Future (LOTF Study) | A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $279,879 |
| 2021 | Literate lives: Youth’s emotive-embodied experiences of literacy | A/P Csilla Weninger [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $149,944 |
| 2021 | Investigating Enactments of Values Pedagogy in Two Schools in Singapore | A/P Suzanne Choo Shen Li [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $149,798 |
| 2021 | Developmental trajectories of English-Mandarin bilingual children | A/P Vahid Aryadoust [PI] | ERFP - MOE | $1,025,532.5 |
| 2020 | A Study on Children’s Home ICT Use on their Language and Development (CHILD) | A/P Victor Lim Fei [PI] | Temasek Foundation | $699,066.78 |
* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator
| Year awarded | Project Title | Name of ELL Faculty | Award Amount |
| 2024 | The role of Prosody in Singapore English word recognition (ProSE) | Collaborators: | $89,945.33 |
| 2024 | Understanding AI prompt literacy as an aspect of Digital Literacy | A/P Csilla Weninger [PI] | $43,306 |
| 2024 | Coalition for International Research on Young People’s Lived Experiences of Reading | A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI] | $9,900 |
| 2024 | Alternative Modernities, Alternative Methodologies: Literary and Cultural Southeast Asia post-WWII to the 1960s | Asst/P Ann Ang Su Lee [PI] | $7,800 |
| 2023 | The ethnolinguistic repertoires and linguistic practices of Malay and Indian bilinguals in Singapore | Asst/P Jasper Sim Hong [PI] | $50,000 |
| 2023 | Student perception and engagement with automated written corrective feedback provided by Grammarly: Case studies from Singapore and Hong Kong | A/P Cheung Yin Ling [PI] | $2,249 |
| 2023 | Deepening Multimodality and Technology Research for Teaching and Learning | A/P Victor Lim Fei [PI] | $9,934 |
| 2023 | Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing: A Scoping Review | A/P Cheung Yin Ling [PI] | $99,717.33 |
| 2023 | Reading Southeast Asia in the World (1967 – 1990) | Asst/P Ann Ang Su Lee [PI] | $50,000 |
| 2023 | Singapore Speaks: Studying the varieties of spoken Singapore English | Asst/P Geraldine Kwek [PI] | $78,030 |
| 2023 | Language processing in multilingual and multidialectal contexts: the case of Singapore English | Asst/P Jasper Sim Hong [PI] | $9,985 |
| 2023 | Understanding and evaluating English language teaching practice: A secondary analysis of CORE | Dr Loh Kok Khiang Jason [PI] | $17,044 |
| 2022 | Teacher Language and Talk in the Primary English Language Classrooms | Dr Kiren Kaur [PI] | $18,665 |
| 2022 | Grammar as a Meaning-Making Resource for Literacy Development | Dr Christine Xavier [PI] | $19,322 |
| 2022 | Reading Futures and Mobilities: A Life History Study of Learning to Read | A/P Loh Chin Ee [PI] | $49,807.30 |
| 2022 | Enactment of expert teaching by award-winning EL teachers in Singapore: An evaluation study | Dr Loh Kok Khiang Jason [PI] | $19,710 |
| 2022 | Grant for book project Understanding Ian McEwan | Asst/P Tan Xing Long, Ian [PI] | $9,500 |
* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator
| Year awarded | Project Title | Name of ELL Faculty | Award Amount |
| 2024 | UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA)’s grant | A/P Vahid Aryadoust [PI] | £500 |
| 2023 | Literatures of Southeast Asia | Asst/P Ann Ang Su Lee [PI] | $9,998.60 |
| 2023 | Deepening The Dialogic Discourse and Thinking of NTU Students Through Student-Led Book Clubs on Children’s Literature: Strengthening Prevailing Practices | Dr Jo Ann Shek [PI] | $10,000 |
* PI: Principal Investigator
* Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator