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English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2010

Benny P. H. Lee
Benny P. H. Lee*
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English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singaporebenny.lee@nie.edu.sg
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The National Institute of Education in Singapore (which is part of the Nanyang Technological University) is the leading national pre-service and in-service teacher training tertiary institution. It offers diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The academic departments are called Academic Groups (AGs). The English Language and Literature (ELL) AG has over 70 academic staff with very diverse research interests. The sheer size of the AG results in several clusters of research interests in language teaching methodology and curriculum, language teacher training, language learning, literacy issues, classroom discourse, and sociolinguistic issues of relevance to Singapore and other parts of Asia. In this report, I highlight some of the recent research, completed in the years 2008–2009.

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Research in Progress
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Language Teaching , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 368 - 374
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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