Resume JW Sew

Research Interest:
Malay Educational Linguistics, Dramatics and Performance, Youth Culture

Grant and Award
•Who’s Who in Asia, New York: Marquis 2007
•Outstanding Contribution Award CHIJ STC 2004
•Travel grant from the University of Melbourne 1998
•Full conference fee and accommodation from Universiti Malaya 1997
•The 125th Jubilee Anniversary of the University of Otago Scholarships 1996
•Postgraduate Scholarships National University of Singapore 1994-1995

Achievement
2006 - 53% Dist, 100 Passes for O Level Malay
2005 - 40% Distinction, 100% Passes for N Level Malay
2004 - 30% Distinction, 100% Pass for O level Malay; 100% Pass for N level Malay
2003 - 37.5% Distinction, 100% passes for N-level Malay
2002 - 63.6 % Distinction, 100% Pass for O-level Malay
2001 - 78.6% Distinction, 100% Pass for O-level Malay

Professional Membership
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) 1997-Present


Book
2007. Reduplicating Noun and Verb in Malay: A Conceptual Analysis.
Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Academic Press.


Articles in Malay and English

2007 Pembinaan Insan Generasi Y dimuatkan dalam Pemikir keluaran.
Pemikir 43 Julai-Sept

2007 Globalization and a Shifting Malay. California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-English%20Influence.pdf

2007 Sound Strategy for a Shifting Malay. California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-Coining%20Malay.pdf


Select Current Presentation

Acting in Second: Psycholinguistics in Dramatics, Parallel Session, Redesigning Pedagogy Conference, CRPP, Nanyang Technological University, 30 May 2007

Dramatics as Multimodal Learning in Second Language Acquisition,
Language Seminar, Centre of Language Studies, NUS, 17 May 2007.

Unhurried Drama Education, Teachers Network Workshop, 22 Feb. 2006
http://nsinte1.moe.edu.sg/project/wt/calendar.nsf/0/e8deb9b4ee385315482570ee000d0f01?OpenDocument


Current Reviews on Indonesian and Malay

2007 Review Article Alan M. Stevens and A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary, California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/pdf/Sew--Stevens%20Schmidgall-Tellings.pdf

2007 Review Article Abdullah Hassan & Ainon Mohd. Komunikasi Intim: Panduan Menjalin Hubungan Persahabatan, Kekeluargaan Dan Kasih Sayang Yang Memuaskan dan Berkekalan. California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/pdf/Sew-%20Hassan%20Mohd.pdf

2007 Review Article Liaw Yock Fang. 1999. Malay Grammar Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide. California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/pdf/Sew-Fang.pdf

2007 Drama in Education: Learning Development Through Drama.
California Linguistic Notes 32:2 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-LD%20Drama.pdf

Current Reviews on Educational Linguistics

2007 Review of Fogarty and Bellanca, Blueprints for Achievements in the Cooperative Classroom. California Linguistic Notes 32:2 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-BellancaFogarty.pdf

2007 Review of John Field, Psycholinguistics. California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-Field.pdf

2007 Review of Joel Kincheloe, Multiple Intelligences Reconsidered.
California Linguistic Notes 32:2
http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-Kincheloe.pdf

2007 Review of Cameron and Kulick, Language and Sexuality. Intersections 15
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15/sew_review.htm.

2007 Review of Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics
Pragmatics & Cognition 15:2, 400-403

Current Reviews on Educational Drama and Theatre
2007 Eight International Busker Festivals in Singapore 13-21 November 2004. California Linguistic Notes 32:2 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew%20Buskers.pdf

2007 Review Margaret Croyden, Conversation with Peter Brook. California Linguistic Notes 32 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-Conversations.pdf

2007 Review of Jonothan Neelands, Beginning Drama 11-14. California Linguistic Notes 32:2 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-Neelands.pdf

2007 Review of Theatre: The Return. Intersections 15 http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15/sew_review1.htm

2007 Review of Theatre: LovePuke. Intersections 15 http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15/sew_review2.htm

2007 Review of Theatre: Impenjarament. Intersections 15 http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue15/sew_review3.htm

2007 Review of The Flipside Arts Series: The Return, Love Puke, Impenjarament
California Linguistic Notes 32:2 http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sew-The%20Return.pdf



Work used in Promotion, Reference, Teaching, Training or Translation by Others

2006 Review of Rom Harre, Key Thinkers in Psychology
Pragmatics & Cognition 14:3, 607-610. Found in the portal CiteILike

2004 Review of Creating Conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 36:12, 2203-2207
Selected as a reference in a course in American College

2004 Review of Naomi Goldblum, The Brain-Shaped Mind.
Pragmatics and Cognition 12:2, 409-413. Used as promotion by Cambridge U Press.

2003 Review of Neil Smith, Language Banana and Bonobo
Leuvense Bijdragen 92, 217-220
Reprinted in: 2005 Linguistische Berichte, Vol 202
Reprinted in: 2004 New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 10:2, 120-124.

2002 Review of Jamaliah Mohd. Ali, Language Culture and Society Vol. 11
http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL/Articles.html#11 (purchased on-line)

1998 Review of Ungerer and Schmid: Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics.
The Web Journal of Modern Language and Linguistics 3.
Selected as a reference material of cognitive linguistics by an European linguist

1998 Review of Lin Shan: Chinese Names
New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies VI:1, 125-127
(quoted as a reference in a website on personal names)

1997 Review of Mary Crawford:Talking Difference.
Journal of Language and Social Psychology 16:1, 89-95. (Cited by a British author)

1997 Power Pragmatics in Asian Languages. Language Sciences 19:4. 357-367
Translated into French in 2006, selected as a reading for politeness studies

1996 Pragmatik Komunikasi Perempuan dengan Perempuan di Malaysia: Satu Kajian
Pelopor (Pragmatics of Woman-to-woman talk in Malaysia: A Pioneering Study).
Jurnal Dewan Bahasa 40: 107-118. (Assigned reading at NIE, NTU Singapore)