Ee-Ling Low is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Teacher Learning and concurrently a member of the institute’s senior management team as Head of Strategic Planning & Academic Quality at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics (Acoustic Phonetics) from Cambridge University, UK under the NIE/NTU Overseas Graduate Scholarship award. She is a Fulbright Advanced Research Scholar and she spent her Fulbright scholarship at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
Her main research area is in World Englishes from the perspective of how experimental phonetic and phonological methods can be used to investigate cross-varietal pronunciation features i.e. rhythmic patternings, vocalic and stress placement features, as well as the acquisition of rhythm and prosody in bi- and multi-lingual contexts.
She is currently the President of the Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics and is also the Series Editor for the Routledge-SAAL Series for World Englishes. Her latest published research monograph by Routledge (2015) is entitled, “Pronunciation for English as an International Language: From Research to Practice”.
For more her profile, please click on: http://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/low-ee-ling
Her main research area is in World Englishes from the perspective of how experimental phonetic and phonological methods can be used to investigate cross-varietal pronunciation features i.e. rhythmic patternings, vocalic and stress placement features, as well as the acquisition of rhythm and prosody in bi- and multi-lingual contexts.
She is currently the President of the Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics and is also the Series Editor for the Routledge-SAAL Series for World Englishes. Her latest published research monograph by Routledge (2015) is entitled, “Pronunciation for English as an International Language: From Research to Practice”.
For more her profile, please click on: http://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/low-ee-ling