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Dr. Yap joined academic life as a senior lecturer in Faculty Languages and  Linguistics at the University of Malaya since 2016. She was a Programme Co-ordinator of  Chinese Programme at Department of Malaysian Languages and Applied Linguistics  (2017-2018). She completed her Doctoral programme (Applied Linguistics) at Minzu University of China, Beijing; her Masters of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya, and her BA (Chinese Language Studies) and Dip. Education (Chinese Pedagogy) at University of Malaya. Her main research interests are Global Chinese in general, and Teaching Chinese as a Second language (CSL) in particular, attitudes, motivations and identities towards and among CSL learners, and the implications of the spread of Chinese Language. Her teaching interests are broadly within Global Chinese, such, Chinese Specific Purpose(CSP) in Mass Media, language structure especially Chinese syntax.

She especially welcomes proposal for PhD or Master research project on any aspect of Global Chinese, areas of particular interest include:Chinese as a second language in higher education, Language ideological debates relating to global Chinese, Intelligibility issues relating to the spread of Chinese,  Attitudes and Motivation towards CSL, Chinese language in higher education contexts around the world, Chinese Specific Purpose (CSP) in Mass Media and Language structure-Chinese syntax.