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Dr Khin Khin Aye

Senior Lecturer
PhD (Language Studies) (NUS), MA (Applied Linguistics) (University of Brunei Darussalam), PGrad Dip (ELT) (Yangon University), BA (English) (Yangon University)

Faculty of Business, Design and Arts

Office No:+60 82 260 768
Room No: G613
Email: kaye@swinburne.edu.my

Biography

Dr Aye has been with Swinburne since 2009, and as Associate Dean, she is in charge of curriculum enhancement and accreditation of courses offered by the Faculty of Language and Communication. Prior to joining Swinburne, she started her teaching career at a tertiary level in 1986 and taught English (language, literature and linguistics) to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is currently teaching MA (TESOL) units.

Dr Aye obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2006 and her research looked at the history, grammar and contact features of Singapore Bazaar Malay, the former lingua franca of the multilingual community of Singapore. Her MA research, carried out in Brunei, focused on an analysis of errors found in the written production of Myanmar learners of Malay working in Brunei, to feed into teaching Malay as a foreign language to Myanmar learners.

Dr Aye’s research interests include linguistic changes induced by language contact, the influence of substrate language on the emerging contact language, learner language, learner errors and the influence of learners’ first language. She is also passionate about describing languages to which little academic attention has been given.

Research Interests

Contact-induced changes, syntax, morphology, language transfer, learners’ interlanguage, learners’ errors

Professional Memberships

  • Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL)
  • The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Asia TEFL)

Awards and Grants

  • NUS Postgraduate Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2001-2005
  • Brunei Darussalam Government Scholarship for ASEAN Citizen, University of Brunei Darussalam, 1998-2000

  • Publications

Publications

  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye, (Forthcoming) ‘Chapter 7: Identity and Variations in the Syntax of Singapore Bazaar Malay Noun Phrase’, in Asmah Haji Omar (ed.) Linguistic minorities, their existence and identity within larger Communities, UNIMAS PENERBITAN.
  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye and Sercombe, P 2014, ‘Language, Education and Nation Building in Myanmar’, in P. Sercombe and R. Tupas (ed.) Language Education and Nation-building: Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire. (pp. 148-164).
  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye and Sercombe, P 2014, ‘The Noun Phrase in Standard Malay and Myanmar/Burmese Compared: Pedagogical Implications for L1 Burmese Speakers’, in P. Sercombe, M.Boutin and A. Clynes (eds.), Advances in Research on Linguistic and Cultural Practices in Borneo, Borneo Research Council, Maine. (pp. 277-315).
  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye 2013, ‘Singapore Bazaar Malay’, in Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber (eds.) The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages Volume III Contact Languages Based on Languages from Africa, Australia, and the Americas, Oxford University Press.
  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye 2013, ‘Bazaar Malay Data Set, in S. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, and M. Huber (eds.) The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online, Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/67.
  • Book chapter Khin Khin Aye 2013, in: S. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M.Haspelmath and M. Huber (eds.) The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures, Oxford University Press.
  • Book chapter Bao Ziming and Khin Khin Aye 2012, ‘Bazaar Malay Topics’, in Ansaldo Umberto (ed.) Pidgins and Creoles in Asia,  Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins, pp. 151-167. (Published earlier in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, vol.25, no. 1, 2010).
  • Journal article Albury, NJ and Khin Khin Aye 2016, ‘Malaysia’s National Language Policy in International Theoretical Context’, Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), Volume 1, Issue 01 (2016).
  • Journal article Bao Zhiming and Khin Khin Aye 2010, ‘Bazaar Malay Topics’, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, [Special Issues: Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Context], vol. 25, no.1, pp. 155-172.
  • Conference presentation Khin Khin Aye 2017, ‘Exploration and implementation of Blended learning: challenges and attitudes towards the shift and impact’, The 15th ASIA TEFL -64th TEFLIN 2017 International Conference, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 13-15 July 2017.
  • Conference paper Khin Khin Aye 2011, The On-Going Process of Quality Assurance in a Foreign Branch Campus of an Australian University. Presented at EDULEARN11 International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, July 4-6 in Barcelona, Spain.
  • Conference paper Khin Khin Aye 2010, Identity and variation in the syntax of the Singapore Bazaar Malay Noun Phrase. Presented at International Conference on Minority and Majority: Language, Culture and Identity, November 23-24 at Hilton, Kuching.
  • Conference paper Khin Khin Aye 2010, Bazaar Malay lexicon and Hokkien as its substrate. Presented at Borneo International Conference on Language and Literature, June 8-9 at Riverside Majestic, Kuching.
  • Conference paper Khin Khin Aye 2010, Errors: Progress or Drawback. Presented at Asian EFL Journal – Providence University International EFL Conference, April 23-25 at Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan. 
  • Conference paper Khin Khin Aye 2009, Sudah in Bazaar Malay and Already in Singapore English. Presented at The First APiCS Conference, November 5-8 at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
  • Newspaper article Khin Khin Aye 2016, ‘Raising English Competence in Sarawak’, The Borneo Post, 16 March 2016. http://www.theborneopost.com/2016/03/16/raisingenglishcompetenceinsarawak/.