Curriculum Vitae

DR. SOH SIAK BIE

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of English Language
    Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
  • sohsb
  • 0379673184

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PHD, (PHILOSOPHY)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • M.A, (APPLIED LINGUISTICS)
    Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
  • B.A, (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
    Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Committee Members
    05 Mar 2024 - 05 Mar 2025 (National)
  • Penyelaras Aktiviti dan Pembangunan Sahsiah Pelajar (HEP) Student Activities and Personality Development Coordinator (Student Affairs)
    01 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2024 (University Malaya)
  • Coordinator
    01 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2023 (Faculty)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Liang, Xiaoting; Soh, Siak Bie; Hamzah, Nurul Huda; Wang, Ping (2024). Research impacts and trends in feedback literacy: a bibliometric analysis, ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. . doi:10.1080/02602938.2024.2407945
  2. Soh, Siak Bie (2024). Collective learning in pre-service teacher education: exploring challenges, negotiations, and co-constructed solutions towards continuing professional learning and development, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION. . doi:10.1080/19415257.2024.2399047
  3. Wong, Shin Pyng; Soh, Siak Bie; Wong, Melissa Ling Lee (2022). Intercultural mentoring among university students: The importance of meaningful communication, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS. 91, 13-26. doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.08.008
Scopus
  1. Soh S.B. (2022). Task Complexity and Pre-writing Condition: Exploring Malaysian L2 Learners Perceptions on Argumentative Writing, 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature. 28(4), 29-48. doi:10.17576/3L-2022-2804-03
  2. Wong S.P., Soh S.B., Wong M.L.L. (2022). Intercultural mentoring among university students: The importance of meaningful communication, International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 91, 13-26. doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.08.008
Others
  1. Soh, S. B., Tam, S. S., & Nikitina, L. (2021). Peer Interaction in the L2 Classroom: A Study among Malaysian ESL Learners. Issues in Language Studies, 10(1), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.2592.2021
  2. Soh, S.B., Tam S.S., & Nikitina L. (2020). Designing and piloting a repeated-measures ANOVA study on L2 academic writing: Methodology and challenges. The Linguistics Journal, 14(1), 183-205.
  3. Soh, S.B., Tam, S.S., & Nikitina, L. . (2020). The Effects of Task Complexity and Peer Groupings on Individual L2 Argumentative Writing: A Study among Malaysian ESL Learners. Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, 1, 22-39.

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2023 - 2026, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    A Sociocultural Framework Of English Language Learning Orientation Towards Empowering Indigenous Youths In Rural Sabah ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2022 - 2025, UM International Collaboration Grant
    Perceptions And Attitudes Of University Learners Of Various Regions Towards Language Learning Between The Recovery And Post-pandemic Phases ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  3. 2023 - 2025, University Grant
    Promoting Student Feedback Literacy through Peer Feedback with Rebuttal Writing in the Second Language Writing Classroom ( Principal Investigator(PI))
International
  1. 2023 - 2024, International Funding
    Documentation Of Murut, Bookan (iso 639-3 Bnb) ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2023 - 2024, International Funding
    Documenting The Murut Paluan (plz) Language In Sabah, Malaysia ( Principal Investigator(PI))
University
  1. 2022 - 2024, UM International Collaboration Grant
    Perceptions and Attitudes of University Learners in Malaysia and Japan Towards Language Learning Before and After Pandemic ( Co-Researcher)

CONSULTANCY PROJECT

  • Perkhidmatan Verifikasi Draf Pelan Tempatan Kuala Lumpur 2040 Versi Bahasa Inggeris, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur
    21 Nov 2023 - 01 Jan 2024 (National)

PAPER PRESENTED

INVITED SPEAKER
  1. Perceptions and Attitudes of University Learners of Various Regions towards Language Learning between the Recovery and Post-pandemic Phases, 2023 JRS Sustainability Webinar Series (4) |, SATU (International) (28 Jul 2023 - 28 Jul 2023)
ORAL PRESENTER
  1. Task Complexity and Task Condition: Exploring Malaysian L2 Learners Perceptions on Argumentative Writing, 9th International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, International Association for Task-based Language Teaching (International) (29 Aug 2022 - 31 Aug 2022)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2024) External Assessor for The Apel.Q Master of Education in Teaching and Learning (Medtl) Program, National, (External Assessor)
  2. (2024) External Assessor for The Apel.Q Master of Education in Teaching and Learning Programmes, National, (External Assessor)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2024) Issues in Language Studies, National, (Expert Advisor)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN CHINESE CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH, HUANG DENGXIAN
  2. (2024) Engagement with Written Corrective Feedback to enhance L2 Writing Performance, BAI QINGXUE
  3. (2024) A Study on the Application of Constructivist Learning Approach in Special Purpose Foreign Language Courses in China, YANG JIANBU
  4. (2024) Research on the Effects of Boredom Coping Strategies on EFL Students’ Language Performance in Online English Classes, CHUFAN ZHANG
  5. (2024) A Comparative Assessment of the New Reading Test of New College English Test Band Four and the University English Textbooks from the Perspective of Linguistic Knowledge and Schematic Knowledge, YANMIN WANG
  6. (2024) domestic students' development of intercultural communication competence through language socialization in elf, WEI HUA
  7. (2024) GENRE DIFFERENCES IN SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC FEATURES BETWEEN CHINESE EFL LEARNERS AND NATIVE ENGLISH WRITERS, GUANJUN DUAN
  8. (2024) Pre- and post-test research on EMI Effectiveness based on Chinese postgraduate Students’ vocabulary Span and Metacognitive Reading strategies, Self-efficacy, and Academic Reading Comprehension, XUN HE
  9. (2024) Examining College Students’ Developmental Trajectories in Second Language Academic Writing: A Longitudinal Study, XIAOTING LIANG
  10. (2024) Contrastive Analysis of Register Features in English Research Writing Between Chinese and Anglophone Students – A Case Study of Chinese MA Theses and Anglophone Dissertations, ZHOU QIAN
  11. (2024) A STUDY OF CSL CHILDREN’S ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE COMPLEX DYNAMICS THEORY, LI QINGE
  12. (2024) DEVELOPMENTS IN SLL ON LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES: A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW, YIHUA WANG
  13. (2024) HOW TO IMPROVE THE STEREOTYPE AND REALIZE IT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING CLASSROOM? -----A STUDY ON COUNTRY IMAGE AND COUNTRY IDENTITY, WANG XUEFENG
  14. (2023) A STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF THE XU-ARGUMENT ON THE ADULT ESL CLASSROOM, Mingling Wang
  15. (2023) Lexical Borrowing in English Newspapers in Bangladesh, MD NURUL ISLAM
  16. (2022) Profiling Phrase Frame Use in L2-English Dissertations — Accuracy, Diversity and Sophistication, Meiqiong Yao
  17. (2024) The Impact of Corrective Feedback via Google Docs on Malaysian Primary ESL Writing, NURSYAZWANI BINTI HAMDAN
  18. (2023) Influence of Peer-to-Peer Scaffolding Episodes on Lexical Tasks among Chinese Adolescents, ZHANG QIYAO
  19. (2023) Teachers' Perceptions of ELT Practices in L2 Speaking and Writing Skills in Rural Sabah, FHRISCILLA MATIN
  20. (2023) Factors Influencing Chinese International Students' Willingness to Communicate in ELF Classrooms, XIAO KE
  21. (2023) Perceptions of Chinese EFL University Learners on Listening and Speaking Skills in English at Luoyang Normal University, XING MENGYUAN
  22. (2022) MALAYSIAN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF STEM TEACHERS' PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS IN TEACHING, Saifuddin Bin Saiful Bahri
  23. (2021) CHINESE EFL TEACHERS? ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE INCLUSION OF VARIOUS ENGLISH ACCENTS IN IN-CLASS LISTENING MATERIALS, Jingjing Song

TEACHING

Doctor Of Philosophy
  1. (2022) TVX8001 - Research Methodology
Master
  1. (2024) TQA7005 - English Language Acquisition and Development
  2. (2023) TQA7005 - English Language Acquisition and Development
  3. (2023) TQA7017 - Global Englishes
  4. (2023) TOX7016 - Multilingualism
  5. (2022) TQA7005 - English Language Acquisition and Development
Bachelor/First Degree
  1. (2023) TIE3003 - English for Specific Purposes
  2. (2023) TIX1032 - Introduction to Linguistics
  3. (2023) TIX2021 - Language Acquisition
  4. (2023) TIX1033 - Research Methodology
  5. (2022) TIX1033 - Research Methodology
  6. (2022) TIX2002 - Semantics & Pragmatics
  7. (2022) TIE2010 - World Englishes

COURSE ATTENDED

Internal / External Course
INTERNAL COURSE- ORGANIZED BY PTJ
  1. FRGS PROPOSAL ENHANCEMENT WORKSHOP, Dewan Persidangan (22 Jan 2022 - 22 Jan 2022)
  2. PREPARING ONLINE ASSESSMENTS USING QUIZ ON MOODLE (SPECTRUM) , Online (25 Mar 2022 - 25 Mar 2022)
  3. SHARING SESSION: MY FRGS JOURNEY, Microsoft Teams (27 Feb 2023 - 27 Feb 2023)
  4. ASSESSING WRITING , Dewan Persidangan Fbl (02 Nov 2023 - 02 Nov 2023)
RESEARCH
  1. KAJIAN RINTIS DI KAWASAN PEDALAMAN SABAH (MATLAMAT PEMBANGUNAN LESTARI KE-4), (04 Aug 2022 - 30 Aug 2022)