Chin Ee Loh
Biographic Data
| ID | 100840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chin Ee Loh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chin Ee |
| FAMILY NAME | Loh |
| SIGNATURE | LOH C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2997-9326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Research in English language teaching and learning in Singapore: 2017–2023
This review on English language teaching (ELT) in Singapore examines 159 empirical research studies published between 2017 and 2023 in both internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals and less well-known regional journals. With this comprehensive review, we aim to raise awareness of ELT research in Singapore for international, regional, and local readership. This will also serve as a starting point for educators, scholars, and researchers t…
Digital crossings: A case study of a knowledge mobilisation approach for translating research into practice
There is increasing emphasis on the importance of knowledge mobilisation, also known as knowledge translation, knowledge exchange, knowledge transfer, so that research findings are moved into action by stakeholders such as policymakers, practitioners and the broader public. While disseminating one’s research digitally is a promising gateway for knowledge produced to have a greater reach, education researchers are least equipped to use digital met…
The use of ‘literary talent: Cultural capital, habitus and competition engagement of Chinese literary youth
What Makes adolescents want to read? Examining adolescents’ contemporary print and new media (fiction) leisure reading through mobile ethnography
Drawing on data from a mobile ethnography study of 12 adolescents from one secondary school, this article proposes to examine the everyday digital reading resources and practices of Singapore adolescent youths to better understand the print and new media (fiction) leisure reading habits of adolescents. Mobile ethnography, with its capacity to capture adolescents’ actual reading through images, texts, and video recordings, provides a new way to do…
‘I Feel Like My Awareness Grew’: Fostering Dialogues to Increase Awareness Through Virtual Book Clubs
This article adopts a Bakhtinian understanding of dialogue to explore the affordances of virtual book clubs, and how they can foster dialogues and encourage dialogic thinking in students. Drawing on a qualitative case study of 11-year-old students participating in an online book club, we explore how digital book clubs open dialogic spaces for students to build on discussions of texts. Readers learn to read beyond the text by becoming more aware o…
Not just reading the romance online: Adolescent girls’ reading Korean Manhwa
Portable mobile technologies and high-speed access to the internet has led to the development of new online-first reading materials such as Korean Manhwa or webtoons, designed for quick consumption on mobile devices. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 11 adolescent girls aged 14 to 15 years old, this study examines why and how adolescents read Manhwa, especially romances. Findings show that these girls read for entertainment and to escape from r…
Adolescents' use of digital media during the pandemic: Implications for literacy
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures in many countries have increased young people's engagement with digital media. The digital divide goes beyond just having devices and includes differences in how well young people can use digital technology. In this paper, we shift our attention beyond screen time to the nature of the adolescents' digital media use. Our study looks at two adolescents from different backgrounds to understa…
Teachers’ changing perspectives of their spatial competencies: A case study of professional learning in Singapore
While there is increasing recognition of the role of learning environments for teaching and learning, research on teachers' spatial competency is lacking. Drawing on an in-depth case study approach, this study examined the impact of a professional learning and action research pilot program to enhance teachers' spatial competency in one government secondary school in Singapore. Findings showed that professional learning can improve teacher knowled…
‘Because I’m always moving’: A mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices
With increased access to technologies for reading, more understanding is needed about how adolescents engage with print and digital reading across school and out-of-school contexts. In this study, mobile ethnography was used to document the everyday print and digital reading practices of adolescent girls from one all-girls’ school. They responded to real-time researcher prompts about their reading across various timings, locations, and devices ov…
Because I have my phone with me all the time”: The role of device access in developing Singapore adolescents’ critical news literacy
Given constant online access to information, critical news literacy, or the ability to access and critically evaluate the news, is essential for adolescents to learn about the world and obtain civic knowledge to participate as national and global citizens. Although there has been much research focusing on how youths critically read and produce media, less attention has been paid to the issue of access as an essential element of news literacy. Dra…
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading
Reading Identities, Mobilities, and Reading Futures: Critical Spatial Perspectives on Adolescent Access to Literacy Resources
In this article, Chin Ee Loh, Baoqi Sun, and Chan-Hoong Leong utilize a critical spatial perspective to examine how students from different socioeconomic statuses access reading resources at home, in school, and in the community. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) data, they evaluate the distribution of reading resources in Singapore by mapping out students’ physical distances to libraries and bookstores. They juxtapose the data against ca…
Cultural capital, habitus and reading futures: Middle-class adolescent students’ cultivation of reading dispositions in Singapore
The acquisition of cultural capital can only be understood in the light of the formation of habitus, including the socialisation process, and in the context of the field in which any such capital has value. Yet, the relation between cultural capital and habitus is seldom discussed in research. Drawing on the data from focus groups with 96 students and a survey of 5,779 students from six Singapore secondary schools, we analyze how reading as a for…
Challenging the Visual Discourse of Reading: Or, Do Teen Readers Look Like Google Images
Popular culture images of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, in our documentation of adolescent students reading in Singapore secondary schools, we find that there are many ways and modes of reading, much of which is social in nature. Through the use of comparative, critical visual analysis, this paper expands the understanding of what it means to rea…
I'd Still Prefer to Read the Hard Copy”: Adolescents’ Print and Digital Reading Habits
Does print still matter in this digital age? What is the role of technology in reading? Do adolescents who enjoy reading view the reading of print and digital material differently from those who do not enjoy reading? Drawing on survey data from 6,005 students and focus group data with 96 students across six secondary schools, the authors conducted a mixed‐methods study to examine adolescents’ print and digital reading habits in Singapore. Finding…
Discipline and desire in spaces of reading
Dominant visual narratives of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals, deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, reading is both social and solitary and takes place in different kinds of spaces, not all quiet and not all undisturbed. This visual essay examines how reading as everyday practice is situated in social spaces and is appropriated by individuals as well as members of a collective for its…
Change and Continuity in the Singapore Literature-in-English Curriculum
This paper examines contestations over the value of Literature in the secondary school curriculum in the former British colony of Singapore and the way the Literature curriculum has been framed to understand the various issues surrounding the role of Literature education. Using Raymond Williams’ framework of dominant, residual and emergent ideologies, I show how the dominant perception of Literature study in Singapore as a decontextualised humani…
Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times
Voices from the ground: The emotional labour of English teachers' work
Building a Reading Culture in a Singapore School: Identifying Spaces for Change Through a Socio-spatial Approach
Research tells us that reading is correlated to academic achievement but how do we motivate students to read? How can schools build reading cultures? Through the case study of a government secondary school in Singapore, I examine how attention to the invisible network of resources that support reading can provide insight into students’ resources for reading, both at home and in school. Additionally, I explain, through the mapping of the school li…
Reading beyond the book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
Chin Ee LohNational Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected]© 2013, Chin Ee Loh
Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through Their Reading Practices In and Out of School
This article examines how threeSingaporean boys constructed their identities as global literate citizens through their reading practices in and out of school. An invisible network of resources contributed to their construction of a global literate identity relevant for local-global markets. The acquisition of a global literate identity as a form of intercultural capital is an unequal game in a neoliberal education system and social networks must …
Global and National Imaginings: Deparochialising the IBDP English A1 Curriculum
In this paper, I argue for the deparochialising of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) English A1 curriculum where teachers as curriculum-makers would critically assess text choice and where students have the opportunities to make critical readings and engage in conversations about issues raised by the text. Through the case study of the implementation of one English A1 curriculum in a Singapore school, I demonstrate the poss…
Reading the World: Reconceptualizing Reading Multicultural Literature in the English Language Arts Classroom in a Global World
Voices from the ground: The emotional labour of English teachers' work
Cultural capital, habitus and reading futures: Middle-class adolescent students’ cultivation of reading dispositions in Singapore
The acquisition of cultural capital can only be understood in the light of the formation of habitus, including the socialisation process, and in the context of the field in which any such capital has value. Yet, the relation between cultural capital and habitus is seldom discussed in research. Drawing on the data from focus groups with 96 students and a survey of 5,779 students from six Singapore secondary schools, we analyze how reading as a for…
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading
Discipline and desire in spaces of reading
Dominant visual narratives of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals, deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, reading is both social and solitary and takes place in different kinds of spaces, not all quiet and not all undisturbed. This visual essay examines how reading as everyday practice is situated in social spaces and is appropriated by individuals as well as members of a collective for its…
Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through Their Reading Practices In and Out of School
This article examines how threeSingaporean boys constructed their identities as global literate citizens through their reading practices in and out of school. An invisible network of resources contributed to their construction of a global literate identity relevant for local-global markets. The acquisition of a global literate identity as a form of intercultural capital is an unequal game in a neoliberal education system and social networks must …
Reading the World: Reconceptualizing Reading Multicultural Literature in the English Language Arts Classroom in a Global World
Global and National Imaginings: Deparochialising the IBDP English A1 Curriculum
In this paper, I argue for the deparochialising of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) English A1 curriculum where teachers as curriculum-makers would critically assess text choice and where students have the opportunities to make critical readings and engage in conversations about issues raised by the text. Through the case study of the implementation of one English A1 curriculum in a Singapore school, I demonstrate the poss…
Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through Their Reading Practices In and Out of School
This article examines how threeSingaporean boys constructed their identities as global literate citizens through their reading practices in and out of school. An invisible network of resources contributed to their construction of a global literate identity relevant for local-global markets. The acquisition of a global literate identity as a form of intercultural capital is an unequal game in a neoliberal education system and social networks must …
Reading beyond the book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
Chin Ee LohNational Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, [email protected]© 2013, Chin Ee Loh
Building a Reading Culture in a Singapore School: Identifying Spaces for Change Through a Socio-spatial Approach
Research tells us that reading is correlated to academic achievement but how do we motivate students to read? How can schools build reading cultures? Through the case study of a government secondary school in Singapore, I examine how attention to the invisible network of resources that support reading can provide insight into students’ resources for reading, both at home and in school. Additionally, I explain, through the mapping of the school li…
Voices from the ground: The emotional labour of English teachers' work
Change and Continuity in the Singapore Literature-in-English Curriculum
This paper examines contestations over the value of Literature in the secondary school curriculum in the former British colony of Singapore and the way the Literature curriculum has been framed to understand the various issues surrounding the role of Literature education. Using Raymond Williams’ framework of dominant, residual and emergent ideologies, I show how the dominant perception of Literature study in Singapore as a decontextualised humani…
Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times
Challenging the Visual Discourse of Reading: Or, Do Teen Readers Look Like Google Images
Popular culture images of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, in our documentation of adolescent students reading in Singapore secondary schools, we find that there are many ways and modes of reading, much of which is social in nature. Through the use of comparative, critical visual analysis, this paper expands the understanding of what it means to rea…
I'd Still Prefer to Read the Hard Copy”: Adolescents’ Print and Digital Reading Habits
Does print still matter in this digital age? What is the role of technology in reading? Do adolescents who enjoy reading view the reading of print and digital material differently from those who do not enjoy reading? Drawing on survey data from 6,005 students and focus group data with 96 students across six secondary schools, the authors conducted a mixed‐methods study to examine adolescents’ print and digital reading habits in Singapore. Finding…
Discipline and desire in spaces of reading
Dominant visual narratives of reading tend to portray readers as solitary individuals, deeply immersed in reading a single text in a quiet, undisturbed spot. Yet, reading is both social and solitary and takes place in different kinds of spaces, not all quiet and not all undisturbed. This visual essay examines how reading as everyday practice is situated in social spaces and is appropriated by individuals as well as members of a collective for its…
Cultural capital, habitus and reading futures: Middle-class adolescent students’ cultivation of reading dispositions in Singapore
The acquisition of cultural capital can only be understood in the light of the formation of habitus, including the socialisation process, and in the context of the field in which any such capital has value. Yet, the relation between cultural capital and habitus is seldom discussed in research. Drawing on the data from focus groups with 96 students and a survey of 5,779 students from six Singapore secondary schools, we analyze how reading as a for…
Reading Identities, Mobilities, and Reading Futures: Critical Spatial Perspectives on Adolescent Access to Literacy Resources
In this article, Chin Ee Loh, Baoqi Sun, and Chan-Hoong Leong utilize a critical spatial perspective to examine how students from different socioeconomic statuses access reading resources at home, in school, and in the community. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) data, they evaluate the distribution of reading resources in Singapore by mapping out students’ physical distances to libraries and bookstores. They juxtapose the data against ca…
‘Because I’m always moving’: A mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices
With increased access to technologies for reading, more understanding is needed about how adolescents engage with print and digital reading across school and out-of-school contexts. In this study, mobile ethnography was used to document the everyday print and digital reading practices of adolescent girls from one all-girls’ school. They responded to real-time researcher prompts about their reading across various timings, locations, and devices ov…
Because I have my phone with me all the time”: The role of device access in developing Singapore adolescents’ critical news literacy
Given constant online access to information, critical news literacy, or the ability to access and critically evaluate the news, is essential for adolescents to learn about the world and obtain civic knowledge to participate as national and global citizens. Although there has been much research focusing on how youths critically read and produce media, less attention has been paid to the issue of access as an essential element of news literacy. Dra…
Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading
What Makes adolescents want to read? Examining adolescents’ contemporary print and new media (fiction) leisure reading through mobile ethnography
Drawing on data from a mobile ethnography study of 12 adolescents from one secondary school, this article proposes to examine the everyday digital reading resources and practices of Singapore adolescent youths to better understand the print and new media (fiction) leisure reading habits of adolescents. Mobile ethnography, with its capacity to capture adolescents’ actual reading through images, texts, and video recordings, provides a new way to do…
‘I Feel Like My Awareness Grew’: Fostering Dialogues to Increase Awareness Through Virtual Book Clubs
This article adopts a Bakhtinian understanding of dialogue to explore the affordances of virtual book clubs, and how they can foster dialogues and encourage dialogic thinking in students. Drawing on a qualitative case study of 11-year-old students participating in an online book club, we explore how digital book clubs open dialogic spaces for students to build on discussions of texts. Readers learn to read beyond the text by becoming more aware o…
Not just reading the romance online: Adolescent girls’ reading Korean Manhwa
Portable mobile technologies and high-speed access to the internet has led to the development of new online-first reading materials such as Korean Manhwa or webtoons, designed for quick consumption on mobile devices. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 11 adolescent girls aged 14 to 15 years old, this study examines why and how adolescents read Manhwa, especially romances. Findings show that these girls read for entertainment and to escape from r…
Adolescents' use of digital media during the pandemic: Implications for literacy
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures in many countries have increased young people's engagement with digital media. The digital divide goes beyond just having devices and includes differences in how well young people can use digital technology. In this paper, we shift our attention beyond screen time to the nature of the adolescents' digital media use. Our study looks at two adolescents from different backgrounds to understa…
Teachers’ changing perspectives of their spatial competencies: A case study of professional learning in Singapore
While there is increasing recognition of the role of learning environments for teaching and learning, research on teachers' spatial competency is lacking. Drawing on an in-depth case study approach, this study examined the impact of a professional learning and action research pilot program to enhance teachers' spatial competency in one government secondary school in Singapore. Findings showed that professional learning can improve teacher knowled…
Research in English language teaching and learning in Singapore: 2017–2023
This review on English language teaching (ELT) in Singapore examines 159 empirical research studies published between 2017 and 2023 in both internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals and less well-known regional journals. With this comprehensive review, we aim to raise awareness of ELT research in Singapore for international, regional, and local readership. This will also serve as a starting point for educators, scholars, and researchers t…
Digital crossings: A case study of a knowledge mobilisation approach for translating research into practice
There is increasing emphasis on the importance of knowledge mobilisation, also known as knowledge translation, knowledge exchange, knowledge transfer, so that research findings are moved into action by stakeholders such as policymakers, practitioners and the broader public. While disseminating one’s research digitally is a promising gateway for knowledge produced to have a greater reach, education researchers are least equipped to use digital met…
The use of ‘literary talent: Cultural capital, habitus and competition engagement of Chinese literary youth
Sociology (18 works) · Pedagogy (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (6 works) · Reading (process (6 works) · Art (5 works)