Curriculum Vitae

DR. CHIEW POH SHIN

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics
    Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
  • chiewpohshin
  • 0379673166

BIOGRAPHY

CHIEW Poh Shin (周宝芯, 周寶芯) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She earned her Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD from Nanjing Normal University, specialising in Chinese language and linguistics.

Her primary research interests include phonetics and phonology, language variation, and language acquisition. Currently, she focuses on sociophonetics and prosodic studies, particularly in the varieties of Chinese like Hokkien, Cantonese, and Mandarin. She has a deep passion for human speech and wants to explore how speech sounds connect with cognition, society, and culture.

Beyond academic research, she enjoys engaging in popular science work, sharing the fascinating world of linguistics with the public. Here is her first experience on a podcast.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • DIALECTOLOGY
    Humanities, Linguistics, Linguistics And Applied Linguistic
  • LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (INCLUDING FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, SLA, BILINGUALISM, FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING, MALAY AS SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
    Humanities, Linguistics, Linguistics And Applied Linguistic
  • PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (INCLUDING LABORATORY PHONETICS, PROSODY AND SPEECH SCIENCE)
    Humanities, Linguistics, Linguistics And Applied Linguistic

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • Degree of Doctor of Arts, (Language)
    Nanjing Normal University
  • Master of Arts (Chinese Philology), (Chinese Philosophy)
    Nanjing Normal University
  • B.A (Chinese Language and Literature), (Language)
    Nanjing Normal University

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Programme coordinator of PhD, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
    01 Mar 2023 - 28 Feb 2025 (Faculty)
  • Programme Coordinator
    05 Aug 2021 - 31 Aug 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Jawatankuasa Kurikulum Fakulti, Ijazah Pertama, Fakulti Bahasa & Linguistik
    02 Jun 2018 - 03 Jun 2023 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Ahli Jawatankuasa Ijazah Dasar (JKID)
    21 Sep 2020 - 20 Sep 2021 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Programme Coordinator
    01 Aug 2018 - 31 Aug 2019 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Coordinator
    21 Nov 2017 - 20 Nov 2018 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Ahli Jawatankuasa UM111 Universal Fest "CELEBRATING LANGUAGE & CULTURE"
    23 Apr 2016 - 23 Apr 2016 (Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics)
  • Ahli Jawatankuasa Sekretariat dan Resepsi untuk Persidangan Antarabangsa "University of Malaya Discourse and Society" (UMDS) 2015
    14 Nov 2015 - 16 Nov 2015 (International)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (MAAL), MEMBER
    Since 2022 (National)
  • ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQU E (AILA), MEMBER
    Since 2022 (International)
  • LOGISTICS COMMITTEE OF THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS WORLD CONGRESS (AILA 2024) ORGANISING COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE MEMBER
    2024 to 2024 (International)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP

  • Excellence Service Award
    2023, Universiti Malaya
  • Certificate of Excellent Service
    2021, Universiti Malaya
  • Certificate of Excellent Service
    2020, Universiti Malaya

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Ng, Bee Kee; Chiew, Poh Shin (2024). Phonetic variation of initial stop consonants in Malaysian English, ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE. . doi:10.1075/eww.24005.ng
ESCI
  1. Adnan, Ernie; Pillai, Stefanie; Chiew, Poh Shin (2020). The Perception of Lexical Stress in Malaysian English, 3L-LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS LITERATURE-THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES. 26(4), 1-14. doi:10.17576/3L-2020-2604-01
Scopus
  1. Ng B.K., Chiew P.S. (2024). L1 Influence on Stop Consonant Production: A Case Study of Malaysian Mandarin-English Bilinguals, Asian Englishes. . doi:10.1080/13488678.2023.2251743
  2. Ren X., Chiew P.S. (2024). An Acoustic Study on the Citation Tones in Malaysian Mandarin, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 32(4), 1367-1389. doi:10.47836/pjssh.32.4.07
  3. Yamaguchi, T., & Chiew, P. S. (2020). Is there conflation? An acoustic analysis of vowels in Japanese English. Asian Englishes, 22(1), 35-51. doi:10.1080/13488678.2018.1563665
  4. Adnan, E., Pillai, S., Chiew, P. S. (2019). The level of awareness and production of English lexical stress among English language teacher trainees in Malaysia. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9(1), 98-107. doi: 10.17509/ijal.v9i1.15767
Others
  1. Chiew, P. S. (2021). A Preliminary Study on Third Tone Sandhi in Malaysian Mandarin. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2.
  2. Chiew, P.S. (2019). The Phonological System of Klang Hokkien in Selangor, Malaysia. Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, 22, 71-112.
  3. Lau Su Kia & Chiew Poh Shin. (2018). Malai xuesheng wu zhong Hanyu juxing yuxu pianwu fenxi ji jiaoxue jianyi (A word order error analysis of five types of Chinese sentences of Malay students in Malaysia and pedagogical suggestions). Overseas Chinese Teaching, 40(1), 46-59.
  4. Chiew Poh Shin, Wang Xiaomei. 2015. A Review of Language Situation of Indonesian Chinese. Hong Kong: Chinese Language Review Volume 109 :12-18.
Chapter in Books
  1. Adnan, E., Pillai, S., & Chiew, P. S. (2024). Malaysian student teachers' perception of lexical stress in English. In W. A. Wan Aslynn, S. Pillai & S. Y. Chew (Eds.), Contemporary Malaysian English pronunciation. (pp. 121-139). IIUM Press.
  2. Raja Rosemawati, R.A., & Chiew, P. S. (2024). The production and perception of English monophthongs by Young Malay Learners in Malaysia. In W. A. Wan Aslynn, S. Pillai & S. Y. Chew (Eds.), Contemporary Malaysian English pronunciation. (pp. 42-73). IIUM Press.
  3. Chiew, P. S. (2021). Oral Reading Fluency in Mandarin Chinese by Thai and Indonesian Learners [in Chinese]. In W. Zhao, B. Zhang, & X. Cao (Eds), Selected Papers from The 5th International Academic Conference On Construction And Application Of Chinese Interlanguage Corpora (pp. 194-204). Nanjing University Press.
  4. Chiew, P.S. (2020). Phonetic Error in L2 Mandarin Chinese [in Chinese]. In Xiao Xiqiang et al (Eds.). Case Study on Error Analysis in second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese (Updated Edition) (pp. 2-51). Beijing: Peking University Press.
  5. Chiew, P. S. (2019). Lexical Tone and Tone Sandhi in Klang Hokkien. In Yap, N.T & Setter, J. (Eds.), Speech Research in a Malaysia Context (pp. 99-119). Serdang, UPM Press.
  6. Zhou Bao Xin (Chiew Poh Shin). 2015. Error Case Analysis of Chinese Phonetic. In Xiao Xiqiang et al (Eds.). 2015. An Error Case Analysis of Chinese Language L2 Learners, pg 2- 49. Beijing: Beijing World Publishing Corporation.
Article in Proceeding
  1. Chiew Poh Shin. (2018 August). Taiguo Yinni xuexizhe Hanyu langdu kouyu de liulidu yanjiu (Reading fluency in Chinese Spoken by Thai and Indonesian CSL Speakers). Paper presented at the 5th International Academic Conference on Construction and Application of Chinese Interlanguage Corpora, Nanjing, China.
  2. Chiew, P.S. (2016, Nov). Production Development of Chinese Prosody by Malaysian Malay CSL Learners. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference of Construction and Application to Chinese Interlanguage Corpus, Yangzhou, China.
Other Publications
  1. Chiew P. S. (2022). Hainanese dialect (Phonetic Transcription). In Pillai, S. (Eds). The Mousedeer and The Crocodiles: A Malaysian Folktale in 100 languages (Special Anniversary Edition). University of Malaya Press - Original Writing
  2. Chiew P. S. (2022). Hakka dialect (Phonetic Transcription). In Pillai, S. (Eds). The Mousedeer and The Crocodiles: A Malaysian Folktale in 100 languages (Special Anniversary Edition). University of Malaya Press - Original Writing
  3. Chiew P. S. (2022). Teochew dialect (Phonetic Transcription). In Pillai, S. (Eds). The Mousedeer and The Crocodiles: A Malaysian Folktale in 100 languages (Special Anniversary Edition). University of Malaya Press - Original Writing
  4. Chiew, P.S. (2019, September 04). Perception of Sentence Focus, Effective in Communication (tingbian ju zhongyin, youxiao zujin goutong). Nanyang Siang Pau (Online), http://www.enanyang.my/news/20190904/%E5%90%AC%E8%BE%A8%E5%8F%A5%E7%84%A6%E7%82%B9-br%E6%9C%89%E6%95%88%E4%BF%83%E8%BF%9B%E6%B2%9F%E9%80%9A/ - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Acoustic Phonetics (phonetics)
  • Sociophonetics (phonetics)
  • Prosodic phonology (phonetics & phonology)
  • Varieties of Chinese (Chinese dialectology) (dialectology)
  • Mandarin Chinese as international/second language teaching and learning (language learning)

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2023 - 2025, University Grant
    Tones in Mandarin variety spoken in Malaysia ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2019 - 2022, RU Geran - Fakulti Program
    A Sociophonetic Study On Tonal Variation Of The Klang Hokkien ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  3. 2016 - 2018, Bantuan Kecil Penyelidikan (BKP)
    A Comparison of Prosodic Features of Malaysian Huayu and Mainland Chinese Putonghua ( Principal Investigator(PI))
Private
  1. 2024 - 2025, Private Funding
    Penyelidikan Aktiviti Pengajaran Dan Pembelajaran (pdp) Bahasa Cina Di Sekolah Menengah Di Negeri Terengganu Dan Pahang ( Principal Investigator(PI))

CONSULTANCY PROJECT

  • Content Creation for Ytl Foundation's Learn from Home Community Project, FrogAsia Sdn. Bhd.
    26 Dec 2023 - 29 Feb 2024 (National)
  • Consultation On Language for Kindergarten Chinese Reading Programme, Penerbitan Pelangi Sdn. Bhd.
    24 Jun 2024 - 30 Aug 2024 (National)

PAPER PRESENTED

INVITED SPEAKER
  1. Interesting stories about a multilingual society, Webinar "Language as a window into culture: The colourful of Malaysian Chinese Society", Faculty of Chinese Language and Culture, ng University (International) (15 Dec 2022 - 15 Dec 2022)
  2. Get to know the Chinese prosody , THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITI MALAYA (TU-UM) SUMMER PROGRAMME 2022, Faculty of Languagues and Linguistics, UM (International) (21 Aug 2022 - 31 Aug 2022)
ORAL PRESENTER
  1. PHONETIC VARIATION OF CANTONESE ZERO AND NASAL INITIALS IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF MALAYSIA, THE 3RD MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (MAALIC 2023), Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics (International) (05 Sep 2023 - 06 Sep 2023)
  2. The Effect of Lexical Stress in Malaysian English on Chinese Interpreters Comprehension, THE 3RD MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (MAALIC 2023), Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics (International) (05 Sep 2023 - 06 Sep 2023)
  3. Cross-linguistic Influence in the Syntactic Features of Malay-English Bilinguals Learning Mandarin as a Third Language, THE 3RD MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (MAALIC 2023), Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics (International) (05 Sep 2023 - 06 Sep 2023)
  4. Acoustic analysis of Klang Hokkien checked tone of the old generation, The Malysia-Taiwan Conference on Chinese Dialects, University Malaya & Academia Sinica (International) (16 Jul 2021 - 17 Jul 2021)
  5. A preliminary study on third tone sandhi in Malaysian Mandarin, I-RoLE 2021, Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Melaka (International) (23 Mar 2021 - 24 Mar 2021)
  6. The acoustic characteristics of the lexical tone in Malaysian Mandarin: A preliminary report, I-RoLE 20221, Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Melaka (International) (23 Mar 2021 - 24 Mar 2021)
POSTER PRESENTER
  1. Production of Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi by the Young generation in Malaysia, The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Chinese and Oriental Languages Information processing Society (COLIPS) (International) (18 Nov 2023 - 20 Nov 2023)
  2. Tonal Variation of Southern Min Dialect: A Case Study of Klang Hokkien in Malaysia, The Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Chinese and Oriental Languages Information processing Society (COLIPS) (International) (18 Nov 2023 - 20 Nov 2023)
PRESENTER
  1. The Perception on Focus in Mandarin Chinese by Malaysian Chinese Listernera: Comparision of Different Contexts, Forum on Malaysian Mandarin Studies, Xiamen University Malaysia (International) (21 Oct 2019 - 21 Oct 2019)
  2. The Perception of Focus in Mandarin Chinese by Malaysian Chinese Listeners, Chinese Colloquium of the UMDS 2019 Conference., Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya (International) (01 Aug 2019 - 02 Aug 2019)
  3. Taiguo Yinni xuexizhe Hanyu langdu kouyu de liulidu yanjiu (Reading fluency in Chinese Spoken by Thai and Indonesian CSL Speakers), The 5th International Academic Conference on Construction and Application of Chinese Interlanguage Corpora, Nanjing University (International) (10 Aug 2018 - 12 Aug 2018)
  4. A comparison study of prosodic features of Malaysian Huayu and Mainland China Putonghua - theoretical framework and research methodology, Speech Research in a Malaysian Context, Universit Putra Malaysia & University of Reading (National) (24 Jul 2017 - 24 Jul 2017)
  5. Production Development of Chinese Prosody by Malaysian Malay CSL Learners, 4th International Conference of Construction and Application to Chinese Interlanguage Corpus, Yangzhou University, China (International) (12 Nov 2016 - 13 Nov 2016)

ACADEMIC/ PROF. SERVICES

Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2021) Pakar Rujuk Bagi Pembangunan Kurikulum Bidang Bahasa Cina Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan (Pismp), National, (Expert Advisor)
  2. (2020) Reviewer of the Pertanika Journal of Sosial Sciences and Humanities, University Putra Malaysia, National
  3. (2020) Reviewer of Journal issues in Language Studies, The Faculty of Language and Comunication, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, National
  4. (2020) Professional Consultation-2020_Evaluator_TVX8001 Proposal presentation evaluation, The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, University
  5. (2019) Conducting a workshop What can I do with statistics? , Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University
  6. (2019) Peer Review for the Journal of Modern Languages (JML), in Phonetics & Phonology, Journal of Modern Languages, National
  7. (2019) Reviewer of JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION (JLC), Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, UPM, National
  8. (2018) Research member of Project 17YYC002 (A study on the Classification and Communication Mechanism of Jiangsu Regional Culture from the Perspective of Chinese International Promotion), Jiangsu Planning Office of Philosophy and Social (P.R. China), International
  9. (2018) Reviewer of the International Journal of Language Eduacation and Applied Linguistics (IJLEAL), the International Journal of Language Eduacation and Applied Linguistics, University Malaya Pahang
  10. (2016) Manuscript Review (Chinese as second language learning), International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics (IJLEAL), National
  11. (2016) Research member of Project 16CYY026, Waiguo Xuesheng Hanyu Tongsu Dan Shuang Yinjie Tongyi Fuci Xide Yanjiu (Acquisition Study of Chinese Adverbs Project, National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social (P.R. China), International
Contribution to event
  1. (2021) Online Session to Postgraduate Students of Nanjing Normal University, University, (Course Facilitator)
  2. (2021) Pembentang Webinar Read@UM: "Chap Goh Meh" Atau "Yuan Xiao Jie"? Variasi Bahasa Cina Di Malaysia, University, (Course Facilitator)
  3. (2021) Tone and Intonation of Chinese Language, University, (Course Facilitator)
  4. (2021) An Introduction to Data Visualization Using Excel, University, (Course Facilitator)
  5. (2021) An Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel, University, (Course Facilitator)
Media appearance
  1. (2023) Producer of Pop-Linguistics Podcast You (Speech Make Sense) At You Streaming, Astro Radio Sdn. Bhd., National, (Host)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2023) The Production and Perception of Lexical Stress in Malaysian English, ERNIE BINTI ADNAN
  2. (2023) Influence of L1 on Initial Stop Consonants in Malaysian English, NG BEE KEE
  3. (2023) Pitch Realisation and Creaky Phonation of Malaysian Mandarin Tones, YONG ZHIEN BAO
  4. (2023) Production and Perception of Zero and Nasal Initials in Malaysian Cantonese, CHAN HUEY JIEN
  5. (2022) PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF L2 MANDARIN STOP CONSONANTS BY MALAYSIAN MALAY SPEAKERS, MAGDALENE A/P VETHANAYAGAM JAMES
  6. (2022) Instrumental Analysis of Monophthongs of Hadrami Arabic, AZAH AL-ABD ABDULLAH AL-TAMIMI
  7. (2021) AN ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF VOWELS /ɛ/ AND /ɔ/ IN THE KELANTAN DIALECT, RAJA NURUL NADIA BINTI RAJA ABDUL RAZAK
  8. (2020) THE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH SHORT AND LONG VOWELS BY MALAY YOUNG LEARNERS, RAJA ROSEMAWATI BINTI RAJA ABDULLAH

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES

  • Invited Guest of Aifm Broadcast Programme "Boshi Lai Liao"-- My Story With Chinese Dialects, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (Rtm), (18 Jul 2020 - 18 Jul 2020) (National)
  • Interview from Astro Radio News, On The Issue of English as a Medium of Instruction in Mathematics and Science Subjects, (21 Feb 2020 - 21 Feb 2020)
  • Invited Guest of Aifm Broadcast Programme "Chinese New Year Greeting and Norm", Radio Televisyen Malaysia (Rtm), (04 Feb 2020 - 04 Feb 2020)
  • E-Filing Workshop: Preparing and Managing Your Course Files With Google Tools, (27 Apr 2018 - 27 Apr 2018)
  • Tv Interview of "Galeri Nasional Mandarin" (Tv2) About Chinese Dialects Transcription of The Mousedeer and The Crocodiles: a Malaysian Folktale in 111 Languages, (16 Nov 2017 - 17 Nov 2017)
  • Newspaper Interview About Chinese Dialects Transcription of The Mousedeer and The Crocodiles: a Malaysian Folktale in 111 Languages (Nanyang Siang Pau), (03 Oct 2017 - 03 Oct 2017)
  • Speaker for Upskill Programme: "Plan and Write With Power!", (23 May 2017 - 23 May 2017)