Welcome to the Language Centre! Our dedicated staff actively engage in book translation projects and conduct pioneering research in the fields of language education and linguistics. Their findings are regularly published in esteemed journals and presented at prestigious conferences, showcasing our commitment to advancing knowledge and excellence in language studies.
Language Centre Books Showcase
The Bruneian Folklore Series
The Bruneian Folklore Series is an exciting collaborative project between the academic staff of the Language Centre and Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei (Brunei Language and Literature Bureau). This series aims to collect, preserve, and promote the rich heritage of Brunei’s folklore. Through extensive research and translation efforts, the project seeks to make Brunei’s traditional stories, myths, and legends accessible to a broader audience.
Staff Publications
• Bryn Fabian, F., Sintian, M., & Mohd Yusof, M. N. (2022). Penelitian asas numerasi dalam lagu rakyat kanak-kanak Dusun Bundu sebagai asas pembelajaran matematik [Basic research of numeracy in children’s folk songs of the Dusun Bundu as a basic of mathematics learning]. Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 6(3), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.33306/mjssh/204 (Link)
• Chua, N. A., Soon, G. Y., Ibrahim, M. Y., Noh, C. H. C., Mansor, N. R., Eusoff, A. M. E., … & Shen, M. (2022). THE MANDARIN ORAL MASTERY PROGRAMME AS PERCEIVED BY NON-NATIVE LEARNERS. Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), 7(1), 1-23. (Link)
• Deterding D., Gardiner, I. A., & Noorashid, N. (2022). The phonetics of Malay (Elements in Phonetics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Link)
• Fee, L., Alas, Y., Tong, C., & H. Ibrahim, F. (2022). Who are the Dusun in Brunei? Representation and Deconstruction of an Ethnic Identity. 10.13140/RG.2.2.26212.04487. (Link)
• Keasberry, C., Le Ha, P., & Alas, Y. (2022). Tales of Filipinos in Brunei Darussalam. The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias. (Link)
• Phan Le Ha, Yabit Alas, Najib Noorashid, Sinil Lee, Kyoungkon Lee & Masitah Shahrill (2022) Examining the odd, not the norm: Korean international students in Brunei Darussalam – a less-known place in Asia, Globalisation, Societies and Education, DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2022.2098698. (Link)
• Sangran, E. (2022). Does an Online Flipped Classroom Support Students’ Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness to Maintain their Motivation?: Korean as a Foreign Language Learners in Brunei. The Review of Korean Studies, 25 (2), 321-346. (Link)
• Shen, M., Peng, C. F., Teng, Y. T., & Hua, F. (2022). Chinese ESL Instructors’ Beliefs and Practices of Intercultural Education in a Ubiquitous Environment. In S. García-Sánchez, & R. Clouet (Ed.), Intercultural Communication and Ubiquitous Learning in Multimodal English Language Education (pp. 68-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8852-9.ch004 (Link)
• Stark, A., & Huszka, B. (2022) 100 Years Sitti Nurbaya: A View on the Social Criticism in the Novel Sitti Nurbaya, Asian Culture and History, 14 (1), 68-75. (Link)
Podcast
• Dr. Ishamina Gardiner interview with Dr Chris Haswell of Kyushu University about one of her recent publications with Dr. David Deterding – ‘The Features of Asian English: Phonology’ (Link)
Publications by Year
• Alas, Y., & Anshari, M. (2021).Initiating Brunei Cross-Border Tourism (BCBT) as a Gateway to Borneo. International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management 12(3):15-25. (Link)
• Boye, S., Gardiner, I. A., & Littlejohn, A. (2021). ‘Makes head hurt’: School-aged learners’ perceptions in the language classroom. System, 100. [Published online] (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A., Littlejohn, A., & Boye, S. (2021). Researching learners’ perceptions: The use of the repertory grid technique. Language Teaching Research. [Published online] (Link)
• Huszka, B., Yusof, N., Mohiel-Din Ahmed, M. ., & Jun, T. K. (2021). English, Arabic, and Chinese Loanwords in Brunei Malay . LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, 2(3), 1-12. (Link)
• Yusof, N., & Alas, Y. (2021). Benefits and Students’ Perception on Role-Play Teaching Technique: Progressive & Fun Learning Experiences in Brunei. Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education (IJOLAE) 3 (3):225-234. (Link)
• Yusof, N., & Alas, Y. (2021). Using Role-Play to Teach Minority Ethnic Languages: A Case Study at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. in Phan, L.H., Kumpoh, A., Wood, K., Jawawi, R., Said, H. (Eds.), Globalisation, Education, and Reform in Brunei Darussalam (pp. 177-196). Palgrave Macmillan. (Link)
• Prayitno, H., Huda, M., Inayah, N., Ermanto, E., Ardi, H., Giyoto, G., & Yusof, N. (2021). Politeness of Directive Speech Acts on Social Media Discourse and Its Implications for Strengthening Student Character Education in the Era of Global Education. Asian Journal Of University Education, 17(4), 179-200. doi:10.24191/ajue.v17i4.16205 (Link)
• Huszka, B., Akita, Y., Shen. M., & Yunus, N. (2020). Language economy and its implications for language teaching: Data and evidence. LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, 2(1). 33-40. (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A., & Deterding, D. (2020). The features of Asian Englishes: Phonology. In K. Bolton, W. Botha, & A. Kirkpatrick (Eds.), The Handbook of Asian Englishes (pp. 189–207). Wiley-Blackwell. (Link)
• Yusof, N. & Alas, Y. (2020) Sungai Si Amas: Terjemahan Bahasa Dusun Brunei. Bandar Seri Begawan, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
• Huszka, B. (2020). Metaphors of Anger in Contemporary Bahasa Indonesia: A Preliminary Study. LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, 1(1). 26-30. (Link)
• Huszka, B. (2020). Asal Usul Sungai Siamas: Terjemahan Bahasa Jerman. Bandar Seri Begawan, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
• Gardiner, I. A., Deterding, D., & Yabit Alas. (2019). The pronunciation of Dusun. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 19, 14–21. (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A., & Deterding, D. (2019). Language selection and assessment in Brunei Darussalam. In F. Fang & H. P. Widodo (Eds.), Critical perspectives on Global Englishes in Asia: Language policy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment (pp. 45–63). Multilingual Matters. (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A. (2019). Intelligibility of an L2 variety in ELF interactions: Brunei English and vowel pronunciation. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 5(2), 247–268. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.17049.gar (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A. (2019). Student perspectives of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Brunei: Attitudes towards language use in the classroom. Paper presented at the 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA): Re-thinking Paradigms and Approaches to Researching, Teaching and Learning English. Raffles Town Club, Singapore. 6th – 7th December 2019.
• Yusof, N. & Saidatul NHM (2019) Pengaruh Bahasa Melayu dalam Bahasa Dusun Brunei. Jurnal Bahasa, 19 (1), 96-116. (Link)
• Boye, S. (2019). Diagnostic tool and miracle cure? The potential of tongue twisters in Pronunciation Instruction. In P. Rauschert, D. Ruisz & E. Thaler (Eds.), Living Language Teaching: Lehrwerke und Unterrichtsmaterialien im Fremdsprachenunterricht. (pp. 83 – 98). Tuebingen, Germany: Narr. (Link)
• Boye, S. & Byram, M. (2018). Language Awareness and the Acquisition of Intercultural Communicative Competence. In P. Garrett & J. M. Cots (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness. (pp. 435 – 449). London: Routledge. (Link)
• Deterding, D., & Gardiner, I. A. (2018). New pronunciation en route to World Englishes. In O. Kang, R. Thomson, & J. M. Murphy (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation (pp. 218–231). Routledge. (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A., Boye, S., Salleh, S. M., & Yusof, N. (2018). English teacher preparation in Brunei Darussalam: An overview of the Master of Teaching programme from multiple perspectives. In S. Zein & R. Stroupe (Eds.), English Language teacher preparation in Asia: Policy, research and practice (pp. 129–149). Routledge. (Link)
• Huszka, B., Lee Hui Ling (2018). Gender Differences in Motivations of Learning Chinese: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students in Malaysia. Bahas, 29(1). 18-25.
• Huszka, B., Indah Aini, Siti Kudriyah, Stark, A. (2018). Are Homorganic Plosive-Fricative Clusters always Affricates in German? Allemania. Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Jerman, 7(2). 8-13.
• Akita.Y. (2017). Motivational and perception changes in learning Japanese in Brunei Darussalam. Border Crossing Vol.7, No2. 249-262 (Link)
• Deterding, D., & Ishamina, A. (2017). Brunei Malay. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(1), 99–108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100316000189 (Link)
• Ishamina, A., & Deterding, D. (2017). English Medium Education in a university in Brunei Darussalam: Code-switching and intelligibility. In B. Fenton-Smith, P. Humphreys, & I. Walkinshaw (Eds.), English Medium Instruction in Higher Education in Asia-Pacific: From policy to pedagogy (pp. 281–298). Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51976-0_15 (Link)
• Gardiner, I. A., & Deterding, D. (2017). Pronunciation and miscommunication in ELF interactions: an analysis of initial clusters. In J. Jenkins, W. Baker, & M. Dewey (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (pp. 224–232). Routledge. (Link)
• Hjh Zurinah Hj Ya’akub. (2017). The challenges in empowering standard Malay language among Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s students: initial analysis. In Su-Hie Ting, Ai-Ping Ho, Joseph Ramanair, Kai-Chee Lam, Monaliza Sarbini, Wun-Chiew Pung, & Rokiah Paee (Eds), Sustaining Languages and Cultures: Borneo and Beyond: International Conference on Language Studies iCLS 2017 (pp. 85-90). Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. (Link)
• Anshari, M., Alas, Y., Sabtu, N. I., & Yunus, N. (2016). A survey study of smartphones behavior in Brunei: A proposal of modelling big data strategies. International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, 6(1), 60-72. (Link)
• Anshari, M., Alas, Y., Yunus, N., Sabtu, N., & Hamid, M. H. S. A. (2016). Online learning: Trends, issues and challenges in the big data era. Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, 12(1), 121-134. (Link)
• Boye, S. (2016). Intercultural Communicative Competence and Short Stays Abroad: Perceptions of Development. Muenster, Germany: Waxmann Verlag. (Link)
• Ishamina Athirah (2016). TH in misunderstanding in Brunei English. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 16, 1–7. (Link)
• Ishamina Athirah (2016). The role of fast speech in misunderstandings in Brunei English. In Noor Azam Haji-Othman, J. McLellan, & D. Deterding (Eds.), The use and status of language in Brunei Darussalam: A kingdom of unexpected linguistic diversity (pp. 41–56). Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5_5 (Link)
Other Publications
- Adeva, F. M., 'Filipino Language Teaching in Brunei: Acquisition and Retention.' 5th International Language Learning Conference 2013, Penang, Malaysia. 11-13 November, 2013.
- Adeva, F. M., 'Filipino Language Teaching and Testing for Beginners: The Malaysia and Brunei Experience.' International Conference on Language Proficiency and Testing in Less Commonly Taught Languages, Bangkok, Thailand. 17 - 18 August 2012.
- Nicol, M. and Elgar. A. 'Developing Academic Writing Skills in University Students: Current Practices and Problems at UBD. E4BT Conference. ITB 24 - 25 October, 2012.
- Noor Azam Haji-Othman.'Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Southeast Asia (SEA): Trends and Future Challenges.' 3rd Annual International Symposium of Foreign Language Learning (#rd AISOFOLL), Jakarta, Indonesia. 31 October - 1 November 2012
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