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 science communication 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

MEMBERSHIPS

  • MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (MAAL), MEMBER
    Since 2022 (National)

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
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. Adnan, E., Pillai, S., & Shin, C. P. (2021). The perception of lexical stress in Malaysian English. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, 26(4), 1-14. doi: 10.17576/3L-2020-2604-01
  4. 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
  5. 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. 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.
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

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))
International
  1. 2022 - 2023, CLEC Grant, P.R. China
    Chinese traditional culture at your fingertips, The Center for Language Education and Cooperation, (CLEC) ( Co-Researcher)

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. 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)
  3. 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)
  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)
POSTER PRESENTER
  1. 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. 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)
  3. Perception and Production of Chinese Sentence Stress by Thai and Indonesian CSL learner, The 1st International Conference on Chinese Spoken Language Interlanguage Corpus (09 Jul 2015 - 11 Jul 2015)

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 English Lexical Stress Patterns of Thai and Chinese Speakers, LI XINRUI
  5. (2023) Production and Perception of Zero and Nasal Initials in Malaysian Cantonese, CHAN HUEY JIEN
  6. (2022) PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF L2 MANDARIN STOP CONSONANTS BY MALAYSIAN MALAY SPEAKERS, MAGDALENE A/P VETHANAYAGAM JAMES
  7. (2022) Instrumental Analysis of Monophthongs of Hadrami Arabic, AZAH AL-ABD ABDULLAH AL-TAMIMI
  8. (2021) AN ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF VOWELS /ɛ/ AND /ɔ/ IN THE KELANTAN DIALECT, RAJA NURUL NADIA BINTI RAJA ABDUL RAZAK
  9. (2020) THE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH SHORT AND LONG VOWELS BY MALAY YOUNG LEARNERS, RAJA ROSEMAWATI BINTI RAJA ABDULLAH