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Ao Ran C'tre for Research in Pedagogy & Pract NIE5-B3-RAS1 National Institute of Education 1 Nanyang Walk Singapore 637616 Tel: (65) 6-219-6273 Email: ran.ao@nie.edu.sg |
About Ao Ran
Ao Ran is currently working as a research associate and concurrently doing his PhD in applied linguistics at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has taught English and Chinese languages extensively in China and Singapore. His current work as a research associate involves annotating and analyzing Singaporean primary and secondary classroom discourse for the Singapore Corpus of Research in Education (SCoRE) project, and conducting corpus-based analysis of Singapore Colloquial English (SCE). He has published articles on English phonetics, teaching of English pronunciation and listening, using songs in the ELT classroom. His research interests include English phonetics, world Englishes, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, language teacher education, and curriculum and materials development for language teaching.