Assistant Professor Mohd Mukhlis Abu Bakar
Room 22
Asian Languages and Cultures
Block 3, National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
Tel: + 65 6790 3487
Fax: + 65 66896 9033
Email: mukhlis.abubakar@nie.edu.sg
Background
Assistant Professor Mukhlis Abu Bakar joined the National Institute of Education in 2002. He has a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor, UK, which he obtained in 1995. Before coming to the Institute, Mukhlis taught at the National University of Singapore.
Research and Teaching
Mukhlis’s current research is in the field of language and literacy education in which he has two primary interests: one, the reading experiences and practices of young children and the expectations which new language learners and their families bring to school; two, the ways in which language form and function correlate with social practices and the ways in which forms of language are connected to theories of learning. These issues guide his investigations into the literacy experience of Malay and Chinese children through research projects funded by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. Mukhlis’s other interests include grammar, power in language and madrasah education.
At the Institute at present, Mukhlis is teaching language, literacy and culture, and Malay language and grammar.
Publications
1. (2007). ‘“One Size Can’t Fit All”: A Story of Malay Children Learning Literacy’. In V. Vaish, Gopinathan S. & YB Liu (Eds.), Language, Capital, Culture: Critical Studies of Language in Education in Singapore. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
2. (2006). ‘Between State Interests and Citizen Rights: Whither the Madrasah’. In Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman & A.E. Lai (Eds.), Secularism and Spirituality: Seeking Integrated Knowledge and Success in Madrasah Education in Singapore.Singapore: IPS & Marshall Cavendish Academic. p.29-57.
3. (2005). ‘Learning to Read and Write: A preliminary report on the cultural practices of literacy of Malay families’. CRPP Research Report Series. RRS 05-017. 43 pages.
4. (2005). ‘Early Home Literacy: Some Insights into the Cultural and Linguistic Worlds of a Malay Child’. In L.C. Chew (Ed.), Innovation and Enterprise: Education for the New Economy. Singapore: Educational Research Association of Singapore. p.756-764.
5. (2002). Pengantar Sintaksis dan Semantik Bahasa Melayu [Introduction to Malay Syntax and Semantics]. Singapore: Pustaka Nasional Pte. Ltd. 216 pages.
