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Academic Qualifications
- Cert Ed (Singapore)
- Dip Business Stud (Bournemouth)
- BA (UBD)
- PhD (Adelaide)
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Teaching
- Discourse analysis
- Language & society
- Language acquisition
- World Englishes
- Analysing talk
- Bilingualism
- Systemic Functional Grammar
Research Interests
- Systemic Functional Grammar
- Cross-cultural Pragmatics
- Language & Discourse
- World Englishes
Current Research Projects
- Investigating the syntactic constraints in code-switched Malay-English casual conversations in Brunei (started in August 2011). (see here)
Publications
International Journals
Ho, D. G. E., & Deterding, D. (2016). The grammar of Brunei English. World Englishes, 35(4), 542–553.
Henry, A., & Ho, D. G. E. (2016). Code-switching in Bruneian online retail transctons. World Englishes, 35(4), 554–570.
Ho, D. G. E., Henry, A., & Alkaff, S. (2012). You don’t seem to know how to work: Malay & English spoken complaints in Brunei. Pragmatics 22(3), 391–417. (PDF Version)
Chin, G. V. S., Ho, D., & Sharifah Nurulhuda Alkaff. (2012) The Teaching of English Literature in the Bruneian ESL Secondary Classroom: A Preliminary Investigation. The International Journal of Learning 18(9), 117–134.
Henry, A., & Ho, D. G. E. (2010). The act of complaining in Brunei – then and now. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(2), 840–855.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Systemic textual analysis in the ESL writing classroom: Does it work? RELC Journal, 40(3), 333–359.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Systemic Text Analysis: A potential instruction tool in the ESL writing classroom. Procedia Social & Behavioural Sciences (1), 660–664.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Exponents of politeness in Brunei English. World Englishes, 28(1), 1–17.
Ho, D. G. E. (2008). English in the expanding circle – a third diaspora? Asian Englishes, 11(1), 36–50. (on-line version)
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). The focus group interview: Rising to the challenge in qualitative research methodology. ARAL, 29(1), 05.1 – 5.19.
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). I don’t want west. I don’t want east. So how leh? English Today, 22(3), 10–16.
Local Journals
Ho, D. G. E. (2005). Talking grammar in the formal ESL classroom: Teacher talk in one grammar lesson. Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 5(1&2), 17–29. (PDF version)
Books
Ho, D. G. E. (2006). Classroom talk: Exploring the sociocultural structure in formal ESL learning. Bern: Peter Lang AG.
Book Chapters
Ho, D. G. E. (2021). Chinese dialects in Brunei: Shift, maintenance or loss? In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 67-93). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_5
Ho, D.G.E. (2017). Thematic options and success in ESL writing. In P. Mickan & E. Lopez (Eds.), Text-based research & teaching: A social semiotic perspective of language in use (pp. 281–304). London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Ho, D. G. E. (2016). The attitudes of university students towards their native and non-native English speaking lecturers in Brunei. In Noor Azam Haji-Othman, J. McLellan & D. Deterding (Eds.), The use and status of language in Brunei Darussalam: A kingdom of unexpected linguistic diversity (pp. 97–123). Singapore: Springer. (Pubisher's Link).
Ho, D. G. E., & Henry, A. (2014). A text-based approach to writing in the ESL classroom. In M. B. Paradowski (Ed.), Teaching Languages off the Beaten Track (pp. 209–230). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). The focus group interview: rising to the challenge in qualitative research methodology. In G. Walden (Ed.), Focus Group Research (pp. 295–310). New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
Ho, D. G. E. (2009). Mandarin as mother tongue in Brunei Darussalam: A case study. In K. Kosonen & C. Young (Eds.), Mother tongue as bridge language of instruction: policies and experiences in Southeast Asia (pp. 139–147). Bangkok: The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) Secretariat.
Encyclopedia Entries
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Focus groups. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 2130–2136). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Interviews. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 2839–2843). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Book Reviews
Ho, D. G. E. (forthcoming). Review of English in Malaysia by Toshiko Yamaguchi & David Deterding. Asian Englishes.
Ho, D. G. E. (2014). Review of Review of Singapore English: Structure, Variation, and Usage, by Jacob R. E. Leimgruber, South East Asia 13, 34–35. (PDF Version).
Ho, D. G. E. (2013). Review of Brunei English: A New variety in a Multilingual Society, by David Deterding and Salbrina Sharbawi. South East Asia 13, 40–41. (PDF Version).
Ho, D. G. E. (2012). Review of Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung (R)evolution, by Cecilia Ng, Maznah Mohamad, Tan Beng Hui. South East Asia 12, 37–38. (Online Version)
Conference Presentations
Ho, D. G. E. (2008). Mandarin as mother tongue school language in Brunei Darussalam – a case study. Paper presented at SEAMEO Workshop, 19–21 February 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.