Dr FONG Yoke Sim – NUS CELC

Fong Yoke Sim

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6516 8879
Email: elcfys@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-21 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

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

Selected Publications (since 2019)

Fong, Y. S. (2022). The Internationalization of Higher Education: An exploration in course design and pedagogy. In M. Brooke (Ed.), INTEGRATING CONTENT AND LANGUAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LITERACY. Springer.
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)

Fong, Y. S. (2022). Virtual guest speakers to an online CLIL class: A study in mobility and impact. Paper presented (online) at SRHE Conference 2022, Mobilities in Higher Education, London, UK, 5-9 Dec 2022.
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.