Profile

 Name: Goh Khong Phong, Happy
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Telephone: 6516 6095
Email: elcgohkp@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-12 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Academic Qualifications

  • MA (English Language), National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • BA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Dip Ed, Institute of Education, Singapore

Modules/Courses Taught

  • Bridging Courses, Basic English and English for Academic Purposes
  • Business and Professional Communication modules: CG1413, ES2002, ES2007D, ES2007S
  • Writing modules: EG1413, SP1202

Research Interests

  • Materials curriculum and design
  • Assessment
  • IT

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • STETS Special Projects (secretary) – helped to organize a STETS-BESIG conference, 16 - 18 September 2005 at RELC for over 80 participants
  • Member of the Secretariat and Accommodations and Exhibitions of the AILA Organising Committee for AILA 13th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (held at Suntec City, 16 -21 Dec 2002); Chair of Sub-Committee, Executive Board and International Committee (EB/IC meetings were held from 13 -15 Dec 2002 at the Oriental)
    Oct 2000 – Dec 2002
  • STETS auditor (checked and reviewed every item in STETS accounts), August 2004 to July 2005
  • Member of  CELC newsletter Editorial Board,  2001-2004

Committee Duties

  • Test of Communicative Competency Committee (member), July  2010 - present
  • Chair, Undergraduate Professional Communication Course and Testing Committee August 2010 - July 2012
  • CELC symposium 2013, Chair of  Subcommittee Hospitality and Logistics, July 2011- present
  • Chair, Undergraduate Course Committee, July 2009 - July 2010
  • Module Assessment Committee (member), August-November 2010
  • Remuneration Committee (member), August 2009
  • CELC Symposium 2010, Chair of Subcommittee Hospitality and Logistics, 2008-2010
  • Co-chair, Course and Testing Committee (Course), 2007-2009
  • Department Review Committee – non-academic staff, 2007-2008
  • Handbook Committee, 2007-2008

Publications

  • Lee, K.C. and Goh, H. (July 2011). A Review of Online Reading Sites for ESL Students. In ELTWorldOnline.com

  • Chui W.K., Goh, H, Tan, M.L. and Richard, Dara (2010). Enhancing Effective Communication among NUS pharmacy undergraduates: An Intercollegiate Collaboration which was published  in CDTL October/November 2010, Vol 13. No 2.

  • Lee, K.C.,Goh, H., Chan, J. and Yang, Y (September 2009). Effective College Writing: A Process-Genre Approach. 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)
    The book received good reviews from institutions who had adopted the book. The book is adopted in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. The SM2 and SM3 students and tutors gave positive and encouraging feedback of how useful the book is. As a result, a second edition was written.

  • Norhayati bte Mohd Ismail and Goh, Happy. (2009). Interacting with Peers and Tutors. In T. R.F. Tupas et al (Eds.) Communicating in the University Culture. Singapore: CELC, NUS.

  • Goh, H and Wu S.M. (2009). NTUC Workplace Literacy Series level 2 (Trainer’s manual and Trainee’s manual).
    This project required the writers to design 30 lessons for adult English language learners. Each lesson is about 3 hours. Level 2 is for basic learners

  • Wu, et al. (2008). Students’ Written Errors: A summary of preliminary results. SAAL Quarterly, 83 .
    This project required the markers to identify and categorize errors based on a framework of errors that was developed by the three main investigators. To ensure inter-rater reliability, the markers had to attend 2 sessions on application of the framework.

  • Lee, K.C.,Goh, H., Chan, J. and Yang, Y (2007). Effective College Writing: A Process-Genre Approach. McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)

  • Goh, Happy (2006). A review article on Anne Pallant’s ‘English for Academic Study: Writing’  STETS Language & Communication Review, Vol 5, No.1, 2006.

  • Goh, Happy and Tan Kim Luan (2003) Reflections of ESL and EFL Students Through Email: An Exploratory Study. In Gek Ling, Lee et al (Eds.) Teaching English to Students from China (pp 54 – 72).Singapore: Singapore University Press

Seminars and Conferences

  • Goh, H. (2012). Actual outcomes via virtual platform. Paper presented at The Second Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom, 26-28 April, 2012  Osaka, Japan
  • Goh, H. and Chan, P. (2012). Persuasion and Perception  in presentations. Paper presented at The 11th Asia-Pacific Conference of the Association for Business Communication, March 29-31, 2012   Seoul, Korea
  • Goh, H. and Lee, G.L. (2011). Who vs How . A paper presented at The 16th English in South-east Asia Conference, English for People Empowerment, 8-10 December, 2011 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • Lee, K.C. and Goh, H. (2011). Effective College Writing–a process genre approach. A seminar conducted in Wisma Makara Universitas Indonesia, 8 December2011 Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Lee, G.L. and Goh, H. (2011). Ebony and Ivory.  Paper presented at the Tenth  Biennial National Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning Forging New Directions in Academic Language and Learning, 24-25 November 2011  Adelaide, Australia
  • Lee, G.L, Goh, H, Griner, B. Ng, M., Richard, D and Pui, P. (2011). Speaking Up! Presented a joint paper at CELC Staff Seminar, National University of Singapore, 14 September 2011.
  • Lee, K.C., Tupas, R. et al (August 2010). Frameworking from the ground: The practice of ELT materials writing in Southeast Asian context on the Temasek Project on designing materials in  the 8th  Asia TEFL Conference in Hanoi, 6-8 August 2010.
  • Goh, H. (June 2010). The World of Pharmacists. Paper presented at the Second Conference of the Asia-Pacific Rim Language for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association: Collaboration and Engagement, 15-17 July 2010, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
  • Goh, H (September 2010). I can read you know. Presented a report at CELC Staff Seminar, National University of Singapore, 30 September 2010.
  • Lee, KC and Goh, H. (February 2009). Making Sense of Writing for Weak Students: Effective Strategies and Activities. Paper presented at the 5th Annual CamTesol Conference on English Language Teaching, 21-22 February 2009.
  • Goh, H. and Lee, K.C. (July 2008). Striking a Balance: Dilemma of Text Selection. Paper presented  at URUTESOL National Convention: “Challenge and Achievement”, Monevideo, Uruguay, 4-6 July 2008.
  • Goh, Happy, Chan, Janet & Lee, K.C. (June 2007). Bridging the gap between teaching and writing assessment: An alternative scoring scheme for essays. Workshop conducted at the second CELC Symposium for English Language Teachers "The English Language Teaching and Learning Landscape: Continuity, Innovation and Diversity", Singapore, 30 May - 1 Jun 2007.
  • Wong, L.A., Chan, Peggie, Fong Y.S., Goh, H., Ho, P.W., Lee K.C., Nerney, S.,Norhayati bte Mohd ismail, Sadorra, L. and Zhu, Shenfa. (Feb 2007). A Report on CELC Study Tour to China. Presented a report at CELC Staff Seminar, National University of Singapore, 14 February 2007.
  • Lee, K.C. & Goh, Happy (January 2007). From boardroom Decisions to Classroom Practice: Experience from an Intensive English Programme. Paper presented at the International Conference on "Managing Change in ELT", from January 27-28, 2007, Abu Dhabi
  • Lee K.C., Goh, Happy, and Chan, Janet (June 2006). Assessing Argumentative Essays: the Genre-based Analytic Approach. Paper presented at the 15th MELTA Conference "Reading and Writing: Preparing ESL Learners for the Real World," Subang Jaya, Malaysia, 5 - 6 Jun 2006. 
  • Goh, H., Janet Chan and Lee K.C. (Feb 2006). The use of the genre-based analytic marking scheme. A workshop conducted for SM2 part-timers at CELC, National University of Singapore, 21 February 2006.
  • Chew, M.L., Janet Chan, Patrick Gallo, Happy Goh, Lee K.C. , Ho P.W., Radhika Jaidev, Richard Seow, Susan Tan, Susan Nerney, Jessie Teng and Wu S.M. (September 2005). Reviewing Some Issues in English Language Testing. Paper presented at CELC Staff Seminar, National University of Singapore, 28 September 2005.
  • Goh, Happy. (2005). Taking charge of one's learning. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 24-29 2005.
  • Goh, Happy and Tan, K.L. (1999). Reflections of ESL and EFL Students through Email. Paper presented at the Second language Teaching: Reading, Writing and Discourse conference, HKUST and Guangzhou, China, 22-25 June 1999.
  • Lim, C. and Goh, H. (1999). Active Learning in Tertiary Education. Paper presented at the 19th TESOL International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 January 1999.