Dr FONG Yoke Sim is Senior Lecturer at CELC. Over the past 25 years, she has enjoyed teaching courses in Business Communication, EAP, English Assist, Graduate English, Intensive English, EMI, and Ideas and Exposition. Her pedagogical efforts have been recognised in various Annual Teaching Excellence Awards at centre, college and university levels. Her research interests include intercultural communication, language education, learner strategies and motivation. She is author of the book, Learners in Transition: Chinese Students' Journeys from EFL to ESL and EIL (2019), book chapters and journal papers. She holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham, an MSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from the University of Singapore, besides a Dip-Ed and a Dip RSA.

Recent Modules/Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

• UTW1001F The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Impact and Challenges
• ES5101 Technical Communication for Engineers

Awards & Recognition

• Long Service Medal, National Day Awards 2022
• Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award (AY2020/21)
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2018-2019
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2018-2019 (GEC)
• Award for International Participation at TESOL 2019 (one of four awards)
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2016-2017 (GEC)
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2015-2016
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2015-2016 (GEC)
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2012-2013
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2009-2010
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2005-2006
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2002-2003
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2001-2002
• CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence 2000-2001

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Selected Publications (since 2019)

• Tan, D., & Fong Y. S. (2021). Engaging international music students: Interventions in an English for Academic Purposes classroom. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 11(2). 93-109. https://nus.edu.sg/cdtl/engagement/publications/ajsotl-home/asian-journal-of-the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning/v11n2-Tan-Fong
• Fong, Y. S. & Tan, Y. R. D. (2021, February). The Three Cs of our Mentoring Partnership. SoTL Matters. Centre for English Language Communication, NUS. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/macadresources/2021/02/01/mentoring-partnership/
• Fong, Y. S. (2019). Learners in Transition: Chinese Students' Journeys from EFL to ESL and EIL, 1st Edition. Abingdon & New York: Routledge.

 

Selected Presentations (since 2019)

• Tan, D., & Fong, Y. S. (2022). Engaging International Music Students: Interventions in an EAP Classroom. Paper presented at the 6th CELC Symposium (Online), Teaching English Language and Communication in a Changing Landscape: Innovations and Possibilities, Singapore, 30 & 31 May 2022.
• Fong, Y. S. (2021). Following the Sun from China to Singapore: A Chinese student's journey from EFL to ESL. Paper presented at SRHE Conference 2021, (Re)connecting, (Re)building: Higher Education in Transformative Times, London, UK, 6-10 Dec 2021.
• Fong, Y. S. (2021). Following the Sun from Shandong to Singapore: A Chinese student's journey from EFL to ESL. Paper presented at ELC2021 Conference, Converging & Diverging Paths: ELT in a Changing Environment, at Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, PR China, 23-25 April 2021.
• Fong, Y. S. (2019). Learners in transition: A Singapore case study of PRC students in Southeast Asia. Paper presented at 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA), at Raffles Town Club, Singapore, 6 and 7 December 2019.
• Fong, Y. S. (2019). Learners in Transition: Chinese Students in Study-Abroad Contexts. Paper presented at TESOL 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXPO, at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 12-15, 2019.