Teaching

• Pengantar Linguistik Melayu
• Semantik dan Pragmatik
• Bahasa dan Aksara
• Fonetik dan Fonologi Bahasa Melayu
• Sintaksis Bahasa Melayu
• Bahasa dan Kewartawanan
• Bahasa dalam Penulisan
• Melayu Islam Beraja

Research Interests

• Phonetics/Phonology: analysis of Brunei Malay phonemes, auto segmental phonology, acoustic phonetics
• Sociolinguistics: language use, shift, and change in Negara Brunei Darussalam; code-mixing, multilingualism, and register
• Syntax: Analysis of adverbial ordering, based on Universal Grammar
• Discourse Analysis: coherence and cohesion in any kind of text and speech, implicature, conversational analysis

Research Projects

• Berita Nasional RTB and The Third Space: A Critical Discourse Analysis. (Collaboration with Dyg Siti Badriyah Binti Haji Mohamad Yussof).
• Text-to-speech Project on Brunei Malay Dialect database setup. (Collaboration with Nanyang Technology University, Singapore). (see here)
• Kajian Tentang Sikap Masyarakat Melayu Terhadap Bahasa Melayu. (Project organized by MABBIM. A pilot study has been conducted on SMSMJA students and St. Andrews students. The project is expected to be completed by 2012.)

Publications

2015. Sikap Bahasa Generasi Muda terhadap BM: Kajian Kes Sekolah Menengah Chung Hwa E-Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference On Social Sciences Research 2015 (pp. 925–938). (ICSSR 2015). e-ISBN: 978-967-0792-04-0.

Siti Badriyah Haji Mohamad Yusof & Exzayrani Sulaiman. (2015). Sikap Generasi Muda Terhadap Tulisan Jawi: Kajian Kes Pelajar Institusi Pengajian TInggi di UBD. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 15, 8–16. (PDF Version).

2014. Kajian Ketermanfaatan Pedoman Umum Pembentukan Istilah (PUPI) oleh Pembentuk Istilah. Jawatankuasa Penyelidikan MABBIM Brunei Darussalam. In Rampak Serantau (pp. 372–396). Indonesia: Badan Bahasa.

Conferences, Papers, and Presentations

• The Application of Cinque’s Theory to Brunei Malay Adverbial: Functions and Position. Presented in International Conference On Humanities, Languages And Social Sciences (ICHLSS), 2015, Singapore.
• Sikap Bahasa Generasi Muda terhadap BM: Kajian Kes Sekolah Menengah Chung Hwa. Presented in The International Conference on Social Science Research, ICSSR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Aksara Jawi: Kelangsungan & Perspektif Generasi Muda. Presented in Seminar Antarabangsa Universiti Brunei Darussalam Dan Universitas Negeri Jakarta Indonesia themed ‘Memperkukuhkan Bahasa Dan Budaya Melayu/ Indonesia’, 15 January 2015, Jakarta Indonesia.
• Sikap Generasi Muda Terhadap Tulisan Jawi: Kajian Kes Pelajar Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Presented in Persidangan Serantau Tulisan Jawi dan Arab, 17-18 September 2014, Brunei Darussalam.

Professional Bodies

• 2008: Assistant Editor for Persatuan Siswazah Magazine
• 2010-Present: Member of Persatuan Linguistik Brunei
• 2011: MABBIM committee on “Kajian Kajian Tentang Sikap Masyarakat Melayu Terhadap Bahasa Melayu” project