Debbie G E Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 125994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debbie G E Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debbie G E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO D G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9673-2614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Measuring code-switching attitudes in immigrant contexts
In response to limitations of previous code-switching (CS) scales, this study developed and validated the Code-Switching Attitudes Scale (CSAS) to assess attitudes toward CS between Mandarin and English among Australian Chinese immigrants. Grounded in established theories of language attitudes and CS, the 12-item CSAS was administered to 353 Chinese-origin bilingual immigrants in Australia. Reliability and validity analyses demonstrated that the …
Focus Groups
The focus group discussion is a qualitative method of data collection which has been increasingly used to address research enquiries in the field of social sciences. This entry provides a comprehensive overview of the focus group discussion, specifically for any qualitative researcher keen on using the focus group discussion as a method of data collection. It is divided into a number of sections, beginning with a description of two key features t…
Silence over the wire
You don’t seem to know how to work”
This study aims firstly to compare the complaints of local native-Malay speakers and expatriate native-English speakers in Brunei in terms of move structure and levels of directness combined with the frequency of modality markers; and secondly, it attempts to address the relationship between polite behaviour and its effectiveness in eliciting the appropriate response from the hearer. Data from an oral discourse completion task show interesting si…
English in Malaysia
English in Malaysia provides a comprehensive overview of the roles, significance and nativized features of the English language in Malaysia, a former colony of Britain. The edited book is divided i
Code‐switching in Bruneian online retail transactions
The tools of Swalesean genre analysis have been used for a variety of purposes in applied linguistics including in the teaching of English for Specific Purposes and in tracking historical change of specific genres. Another research area gaining significance in applied linguistics is code‐switching. The purpose of this study was to use the tools of genre analysis to investigate code‐switching in an online multilingual environment and to evaluate t…
The grammar of Brunei English
This article provides an overview of past and current studies on the grammar of Brunei English with a focus on prominent features that distinguish it from standardised varieties of English: the simplified use of tense; the flexible use of plural suffixes, especially on logically plural nouns; the variable occurrence of verbal suffixes; non‐standard use of modal verbs like will, would, can and could ; article usage; insertion of a preposition afte…
Interviews
The interview is one method applied linguists use to explore language‐related problems. Most interviews are carried out as conversations between people, including the researcher and a respondent whose beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and feelings are relevant to the language issues investigated. Interviews are typically used in exploratory and qualitative research to gather data about beliefs of individuals or groups, but different types of intervie…
Focus Groups
In a church meeting room, a group of widows compare their experiences. One woman complains that other people wanted her to stop grieving within six months but that it really takes much longer.
The act of complaining in Brunei-Then and now
Exponents of politeness in Brunei English
This paper is based on the premise that not much is known about how English modal verbs are used to express politeness in Non-Native English speaking (NNEs) contexts. It explores the use of the past and non-past forms of the request modalswillandcanin Brunei, a NNEs country located in Southeast Asia. Specifically, it examines the use of these modals in the Request for Corrective Action (RCA) move in personal complaints written to the local Englis…
English in the Expanding Circle — A Third Diaspora
In looking at the spread of English to the rest of the world, two diasporas have currently been discussed in World Englishes literature. The first diaspora of English is found in countries such as Britain, the United States and Australia, where English is the native language. This is due to the early migration and settlement of native speakers of English into these countries, later regarded as homelands to these peoples. The second diaspora of En…
‘I'm not west. I'm not east. So how leh?’
WHILE recent articles and research studies on Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or simply ‘Singlish’) have so far tended to focus on the structure, grammar and the functional roles of Singlish in Singapore, this paper presents an insider's viewpoint of this local variety from a perspective that incorporates both linguistic ideology and cultural politics. Focusing on the spoken version at the basilectal end of the English speech continuum, the ar…
The act of complaining in Brunei-Then and now
Exponents of politeness in Brunei English
This paper is based on the premise that not much is known about how English modal verbs are used to express politeness in Non-Native English speaking (NNEs) contexts. It explores the use of the past and non-past forms of the request modalswillandcanin Brunei, a NNEs country located in Southeast Asia. Specifically, it examines the use of these modals in the Request for Corrective Action (RCA) move in personal complaints written to the local Englis…
‘I'm not west. I'm not east. So how leh?’
WHILE recent articles and research studies on Singapore Colloquial English (SCE, or simply ‘Singlish’) have so far tended to focus on the structure, grammar and the functional roles of Singlish in Singapore, this paper presents an insider's viewpoint of this local variety from a perspective that incorporates both linguistic ideology and cultural politics. Focusing on the spoken version at the basilectal end of the English speech continuum, the ar…
English in the Expanding Circle — A Third Diaspora
In looking at the spread of English to the rest of the world, two diasporas have currently been discussed in World Englishes literature. The first diaspora of English is found in countries such as Britain, the United States and Australia, where English is the native language. This is due to the early migration and settlement of native speakers of English into these countries, later regarded as homelands to these peoples. The second diaspora of En…
Exponents of politeness in Brunei English
This paper is based on the premise that not much is known about how English modal verbs are used to express politeness in Non-Native English speaking (NNEs) contexts. It explores the use of the past and non-past forms of the request modalswillandcanin Brunei, a NNEs country located in Southeast Asia. Specifically, it examines the use of these modals in the Request for Corrective Action (RCA) move in personal complaints written to the local Englis…
The act of complaining in Brunei-Then and now
Interviews
The interview is one method applied linguists use to explore language‐related problems. Most interviews are carried out as conversations between people, including the researcher and a respondent whose beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and feelings are relevant to the language issues investigated. Interviews are typically used in exploratory and qualitative research to gather data about beliefs of individuals or groups, but different types of intervie…
Focus Groups
In a church meeting room, a group of widows compare their experiences. One woman complains that other people wanted her to stop grieving within six months but that it really takes much longer.
English in Malaysia
English in Malaysia provides a comprehensive overview of the roles, significance and nativized features of the English language in Malaysia, a former colony of Britain. The edited book is divided i
Code‐switching in Bruneian online retail transactions
The tools of Swalesean genre analysis have been used for a variety of purposes in applied linguistics including in the teaching of English for Specific Purposes and in tracking historical change of specific genres. Another research area gaining significance in applied linguistics is code‐switching. The purpose of this study was to use the tools of genre analysis to investigate code‐switching in an online multilingual environment and to evaluate t…
The grammar of Brunei English
This article provides an overview of past and current studies on the grammar of Brunei English with a focus on prominent features that distinguish it from standardised varieties of English: the simplified use of tense; the flexible use of plural suffixes, especially on logically plural nouns; the variable occurrence of verbal suffixes; non‐standard use of modal verbs like will, would, can and could ; article usage; insertion of a preposition afte…
You don’t seem to know how to work”
This study aims firstly to compare the complaints of local native-Malay speakers and expatriate native-English speakers in Brunei in terms of move structure and levels of directness combined with the frequency of modality markers; and secondly, it attempts to address the relationship between polite behaviour and its effectiveness in eliciting the appropriate response from the hearer. Data from an oral discourse completion task show interesting si…
Silence over the wire
Focus Groups
The focus group discussion is a qualitative method of data collection which has been increasingly used to address research enquiries in the field of social sciences. This entry provides a comprehensive overview of the focus group discussion, specifically for any qualitative researcher keen on using the focus group discussion as a method of data collection. It is divided into a number of sections, beginning with a description of two key features t…
Measuring code-switching attitudes in immigrant contexts
In response to limitations of previous code-switching (CS) scales, this study developed and validated the Code-Switching Attitudes Scale (CSAS) to assess attitudes toward CS between Mandarin and English among Australian Chinese immigrants. Grounded in established theories of language attitudes and CS, the 12-item CSAS was administered to 353 Chinese-origin bilingual immigrants in Australia. Reliability and validity analyses demonstrated that the …
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