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School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences

Associate Professor Ts Dr Tan Kian Lam (Andrew)

Professor Dr. Anna Christina Abdullah

Senior Lecturer

Next Faculty Member

Education/Qualifications

  • PhD (Preschool Education) 
  • Masters (Education)
  • Bachelor of Arts [Humanities (Hons) with Education]

Experience

  • Teacher (History, Geography, English Language) 
  • Research Officer, Project InSPIRE, IDRC, USM
  • Professor of Early Childhood Education, USM

Areas of Interest

  • Early Childhood Education
  • Intercultural Competence
  • Programme Evaluation
  • Language Development of Children

Professional Highlights

  • Member of the Ministry of Education’s English Language Quality and Standards Council (ELQSC)
  • Director of Community Engagement in the Division of Industry & Community Network of Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • Malaysian Qualifications Agency Panel of Assessors
  • Thesis External Examiner of Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Published Work

Total No of Publications

Over 120 publications that include articles in refereed and high impact journals, book chapters, monographs, modules and teaching videos.

Publication Highlights

  • The Consonant Realizations of Malay-, Chinese- and Indian-Influenced Malaysian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 33(1), 3-30. (ISI, Impact Factor:0.2)
  • Unveiling Malaysian Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions and Attitudes in Multicultural Early Childhood Education.  Asia Pacific Education Researcher. Vol. 22 Issue 4, pp.427-438 (ISI, Impact factor: 0.98)
  • Multicultural Early Childhood Education: Practices and Challenges in Malaysia. The Australian Educational Researcher. 40, 615-632.(ISI, Impact factor: 0.26)
  • Acquisition of Consonant Clusters and Acceptable Variants in Chinese-influenced Malaysian English-speaking children.  American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Vol. 24 • 517–532 ;(ISI Impact Factor: 2.397)
  • Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education Questionnaire (ICTE-Q); Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences. v 27 (3): 1691 – 1707

Awards & Recognition

  • Visiting Professor, Centre for International Cooperation in Education (CICE); Hiroshima University, Japan
  • Endeavour Research Fellowship awarded by the Department of Education, Science and Technology, Australia, Macquarie University, Sydney & University of Queensland, St. Lucia Brisbane
  • Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia, 
  • Visiting Scholar, School of Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology, Australia