The MTI faculty consists of NTU full-time faculty from different schools, NTU part-time lecturers, and professional interpreters and translators from public and private sectors. They each have a unique background with specialised training in the disciplines that include translation studies, linguistics, literature, multilingual studies, Chinese studies, English literature, language and communication, broadcast and cinema studies, media, marketing, community and public services, information and technology, science, Western and Chinese medicine. They teach and/or co-teach the MTI courses by integrating their distinctive expertise and state-of-the-art research into the professional training.
MTI Course Coordinators and
Members of Board of Examiners
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- Director, MTI Programme
- Senior Lecturer, Chinese Programme, NTU
- NTU-USP Faculty Fellow
Education: PhD (General Linguistics), Lund University,
Sweden
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Bilingual Development
- L1 and L2 acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive linguistics |
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- Deputy Director, MTI Programme
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Lecturer, Chinese Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (Translation
Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- History of translation
- Translation theories
- Criticism of translation skills
- Comparative literature |
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- Assistant Professor, Chinese Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (Translation Studies), Imperial College
London, UK
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Audio-visual translation
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Translator training
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Translation quality assessment
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Cross-cultural communication
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Translanguaging
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Translation and ideology |
NTU Faculty Members
(School of Humanities)
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- Assistant
Professor, English Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (English
Literature), University of East Anglia, UK
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- The contemporary novel
- Narratives of photograph and text
- Creative writing: research-led teaching
- WG Sebald |
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- Senior
Lecturer, Language and Communication Centre, NTU
Education:
PhD (Applied
Linguistics), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- English as a medium of instruction in higher education
- Literary Stylistics, Stylistics in Translation
- Language and discourse of science and engineering |
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- Associate
Professor, English Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (English), Macquarie
University, Australia
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Contemporary Irish Poetry
- Modern American and British Poetry
- Asian Australian Poetry
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Tang Dynasty Poetry |
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- Associate
Professor, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (English), University
of Queensland, Australia
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Machine Translation
- Deep Parsing
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- Computational Lexicography |
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- Associate
Professor, English Programme, NTU
Education: PhD (English and Comparative Literary
Studies), University of Warwick, UK
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Singapore literature
and culture
- Postcolonial literature and theory
- Sinophone studies
- Comparative literature
- Southeast Asian studies |
NTU Faculty Member (Lee Kong
Chian School of Medicine)
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Dr Hong
Huaqing -
Research Scientist, Centre for Research and Development on Learning (CRADLE),
NTU
- Senior
Assistant Director and Head of eLearning Research & Development, Lee Kong
Chian School of Medicine, NTU
Education: PhD (Corpus
Linguistics), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- e-Learning technology
- Learning analytics
- Data-driven learning
- Education data mining
- Corpus linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Computer-assisted language learning |
NTU Faculty Member (Nanyang
Business School)
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Dr Wong
King Yin -
Lecturer, College of Business (Nanyang Business School), Division of Marketing,
NTU
Education: PhD (Hotel
Administration), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Digital
Marketing
- Tourism
and Services Marketing
- Consumer
Behaviour |
NTU Faculty Members (Wee Kim
Wee School of Communication and Information)
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Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU
Education: PhD (Communication
and New Media), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Mobilities
and media in news distribution and consumption
- Media
and mobilities in travel and tourism |
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Prof Kuo
Chen-Yu, Eddie -
Emeritus Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU
Education: PhD (Sociology), University of Minnesota, USA
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Communication
policy and planning
- New media and globalization
- Cultural policy and national integration
- Sociology of multilingualism
- Perspectives in Asian communication |
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Mr Tim Clark Senior Lecturer, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and
Information, NTU
Education: MA (Comm
Management), University of South Australia, Australia
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Advertising
- Copywriting
- Creative writing
- Communication studies |
Course Instructors
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Dr Ho
Chee Lick - Adjunct Senior Lecturer, NUS
Education: PhD (Linguistics), Kansas University, USA
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Contrastive analysis of English and Chinese
- Translation
between English-Chinese and Chinese-English
- Cross
Cultural Communication and Translation
- Language
and Ideology
- Sociolinguistics |
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- Owner and Managing Director, Tender Leaves Translation, Shanghai
and Singapore
- A poet, writer, and translator
Education: MA
English Studies (Literature and Culture), National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Literature translation
- Poetry translation
- Creative writing |
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Dr Tham Wai Mun
- Associate Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Guest
Lecturer, Confucius Institute, NTU
- Freelance Translator and Interpreter
Education:
PhD (Chinese Linguistics), Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Community Interpretation between English-Chinese and
Chinese-English
- Translation history, theory and practice
- Contrastive linguistics
- Chinese language and culture |
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Dr Wang Shengyu - Freelance Translator and Interpreter
- Part-time Lecturer, Centre of English Language Communication, NUS
- Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Sciences, SMU
Education:
PhD (English
Literature), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Literature translation between English-Chinese and
Chinese-English
- Interpretation between English-Chinese and Chinese-English |
Visiting Professor
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Prof Theo
Hermans - Professor,
Dutch and Comparative Literature, University College London
Education:
PhD (Comparative
Literature), University of Warwick, UK
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Theory
of translation: translation and social system theories; cross-cultural study of
concepts and practices of translation
- History
of translation: historical conceptions and practices of translation in Early
Modern Europe and since
Visiting Period: March 2016
Teaching Topics:
TI6001 Translation Theories
- A different perspective on
equivalence
- Translation Norms: Conventions,
Norms and Translation as Social Practice
TI6002 Specialised Translation I (Literature)
- Charlie Chan and Sinophone transculturation
- Harry Potter or “Hairy” Potter (I): Sacred or secular transformation? |
Guest Lecturers
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Prof Li
Haizhou - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
NUS
- Area Director (System Analysis & Machine Intelligence), NUS
- Bremen Excellence Chair Professor, University of Bremen, Germany
- IEEE Fellow
- ISCA Fellow
Education: PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), South China
University of Technology, China
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Speech information processing
- Natural language processing
- Human-robot interaction
- Machine translation |
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Mr Lee Hui Huan - Adjunct Senior Lecturer,
NUS
- Former Chief Interpreter of
Parliament (retired)
- Interpreted for “live” telecast of
National Day Rally speeches of all the 3 Prime Ministers of Singapore at since
1987.
- Official Interpreter for Prime
Minister and Ministers for official visits to China, and visits to Singapore by
top leaders of China.
- Accredited Free-lance Interpreter
for United Nations (ESCAP, FAO, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank)
- Conference Interpreter at
international conferences: APEC, World Economic Forum, Forbes Global CEO
Summit, etc.
- The first Singaporean
Professional Member of International Association of Conference Interpreters
(AIIC), admitted 1989.
Education: BA (with Distinction) (Chinese Language & Culture), Beijing
Language University, China
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Parliament interpreting
- Conference interpreting
- Characteristics of Interpreting Political Speeches in Singapore
- Best practice in Interpreting between English and
Mandarin/Hokkien/Cantonese
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Dr Loh
Cheng Toa Steven - Senior Physician, Chinese Medicine Clinic, NTU
- Registered TCM physician/acupuncturist, Singapore
- Registered Doctor (Chinese Medicine), China
Education: PhD (Chinese
Medicine, Clinical Medicine), Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing,
Jiangsu, China
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Traditional Chinese
medicine (Research: Coronary heart disease, Clinical Practice: Internal
Medicine/ Acupuncture)
- Bilingual traditional Chinese medicine consultation service |
Guest Instructors for Localisation
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Mr Richard T. Singer - Director, Eureka Translations Pte. Ltd.
- Member, National Translation Committee
Education: MA (Translation
and Interpretation), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Freelance translation specialising in manufacturing, legal and
medical
- Project Management and Consulting
- Business Consultant for Start-ups and Factory Automation
- Sony Six Sigma Green Belt (Lean Manufacturing)
- Quadrilinguist (English, Chinese, Japanese and Malay) |
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Ms Teo
Kah Hui - Global Localisation Manager, Keywords Studios
Education:
- MA (Translation
and Interpretation), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Master
of Business Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- Audio-visual Translation
- Game Localisation
- Project Management |
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Mr Yuen
Kum Cheong - Business Owner, Yuen Studio
Education:
- MA (Translation
and Interpretation), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Asia-Pacific
Executive MBA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests and/or expertise:
- C-E and E-C translation/editing/proofreading |