Mei-Yuit Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 245091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mei-Yuit Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mei-Yuit |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4726-9117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Culture in Foreign Language Teaching: An Analysis of the Conception of Culture Among French Teachers in Malaysia
Language is often taught in tandem with culture in foreign language classrooms. Learning the culture of the target language speech community has been regarded by foreign language teachers as a necessity, without which teaching is regarded as incomplete. Culture is often a taken-for-granted concept seen as unproblematic, where teachers’ personal knowledge of culture is used to guide their teaching. As teaching of culture in the classroom is depend…
Linguistic manipulation in telephone scam conversations: How are discourse strategies used to control victims
Telephone scammers achieve their purpose through live voice conversations to acquire sensitive information and defraud victims of their money as the eventual outcome. While much research has been conducted to deconstruct the nature of scams of various types, the telephone scam has not been given due attention, particularly through the lens of language in the exercise of control over victims. This study investigated how telephone scammers manipula…
The Effects of Task Types and Working Memory Capacity on the Writing Production of Chinese EFL Learners
The current study aimed to examine the effects of two types of writing tasks—an independent writing task and an integrated writing task—on 144 Chinese EFL learners’ writing production in terms of fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and syntactic complexity. Additionally, it investigated whether the learners’ working memory capacity has a mediating effect on their writing when responding to the two different types of writing tasks. The particip…
A comparative move analysis of problem-solution discourse within risk management reports by Malaysian and American banks
Background and Purpose: A risk management report (henceforth, RMR) is a comprehensive document that analyses the risks faced by banks and outlines strategies to mitigate these risks. It follows an organising framework – the Problem-Solution (henceforth, PS) pattern which emphasises identifying problems and their solutions. Such a pattern is typically used in technical texts. This study shows how the said pattern is implemented in the organisation…
Unprompted self-disclosure in first encounter interactions: An analysis of getting-to-know-you conversations between new acquaintances
Research on self-disclosure is well-established in psychology and communication studies; however, unprompted self-disclosure as an action in conversation has not received as much attention. First encounters are often marked by social uncertainty, and self-disclosure plays a crucial role in facilitating conversation. Using a qualitative approach informed by insights from pragmatics and Conversation Analysis, and complemented by an analysis of freq…
Independent Writing Tasks vs. Integrated Writing Tasks: The Cognitive Demands and Their Impacts on Linguistic Complexity in EFL Writing
Despite many studies investigating the effects of task complexity on L2 writing performance, little attention has been given to the specific effects of independent vs. integrated writing tasks and their cognitive demands on EFL learners. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting a comprehensive examination of the cognitive demands exerted by these two types of writing tasks and their effects on linguistic complexity outcomes among 35 Chi…
A Systematic Review of Second-Person Knowledge Acquisition in First-Encounter Interactions
The acquisition of second-person knowledge in first encounters is a relatively unexplored area of investigation. In this study, we aim to shed light on this topic by systematically reviewing published research articles that describe the strategies and patterns observed when people seek to gain knowledge about one another in first encounters. Drawing on the framework of second-person knowledge and epistemics in conversation, we extracted relevant …
Discursive work in resisting stereotypic representations of the Chinese among Chinese students
The negative effects of stereotyping arising from a victim’s acceptance and internalisation of stereotype identities are well-known. As stereotypes are created and maintained in discourse, understanding how targets of stereotyping employ discursive resources to resist the constraining structures of stereotypic identities imposed upon them can provide insight into the process of stereotyping and contribute to efforts to reduce the threat of stereo…
Question design in veterinary consultations: Question forms and client responses in accomplishing problem presentation in a Malaysian context
Question design by medical practitioners has been shown to have important consequences on how patients present their problems in clinical consultations. Linguistic structure of questions as part of question design implements different communicative and pragmatic functions, and hence, affects patients’ response in different ways. This study examined types of questions asked by veterinarians in the problem presentation phase of the clinical consult…
Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: A linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts
A Preliminary Study on the Use of Epithets in Kenyah Long Wat
Social status has long been a point of reference in addressing the individual. As observed in the Kenyah Long Wat community, members of a family are given epithets upon life events such as birth and death to signify their new status. Although the creation and use of epithets in indexing life events may be customary in many communities, the types and variety of linguistic forms used in different speech communities may well provide a lens through w…
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Product Information Brochure: How is Generic Structure Used to Persuade Potential Users
The presence and influence of complementary and alternative therapies have been increasingly felt in recent years. One reason for this is the active promotion of its services and products through various media channels. The current study focused on information brochures that are placed on pharmacy counters and shelves, and examined how they function as persuasive texts in promoting products and persuading potential users to buy them. The study ut…
Doing Legitimacy in Talk: The Production of Leader–Follower Relationship in Spiritual Consultation Interactions
Spiritual leaders achieve power over their followers through various means. Often overlooked is what happens in the interaction between spiritual leaders and their followers in the creation and legitimation of the leader’s power. In this study, we examined the discursive construction of leader–follower relationship in consultation interactions between a spiritual leader and his followers. Fifteen consultation sessions were analyzed using the disc…
Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia
Diverse methods and approaches have been utilised in researching the cultural bases of health, illness and wellbeing. Understanding the cultural representation of health and illness of particular communities becomes urgent especially when the community concerned is underserved in healthcare. In this project, we sought to examine the representations of health and illness by members of the Semai indigenous community through the use of metaphor anal…
Discourse Particles in Malaysian English: What Do They Mean
Regional varieties of language, often a result of language contact, possess various characteristics, such as borrowed words, and often structures, sounds, and meanings transferred from one or more languages. The variety of English used in informal contexts in Malaysia known as Malaysian English contains localized features resulting from contact with languages spoken by the local indigenous populations as well as the Chinese and Indian diaspora in…
The oral case presentation: Toward a performance-based rhetorical model for teaching and learning
The oral case presentation is an important communicative activity in the teaching and assessment of students. Despite its importance, not much attention has been paid to providing support for teachers to teach this difficult task to medical students who are novices to this form of communication. As a formalized piece of talk that takes a regularized form and used for a specific communicative goal, the case presentation is regarded as a rhetorical…
Hidden participation in the public sphere: Understanding Malaysian university students’ public discourse practices in cyberspace
A recent development in Malaysia was the unprecedented rise in young Malaysians’ participation in the country’s social and political affairs, facilitated almost entirely by the Internet. This phenomenon caught many by surprise considering that university students in the country had been barred through legislation from active involvement in political activities for more than 30 years. Through a survey of 514 university students in a Malaysian publ…
Discourse Particles in Malaysian English: What Do They Mean
Regional varieties of language, often a result of language contact, possess various characteristics, such as borrowed words, and often structures, sounds, and meanings transferred from one or more languages. The variety of English used in informal contexts in Malaysia known as Malaysian English contains localized features resulting from contact with languages spoken by the local indigenous populations as well as the Chinese and Indian diaspora in…
Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: A linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals
Hidden participation in the public sphere: Understanding Malaysian university students’ public discourse practices in cyberspace
A recent development in Malaysia was the unprecedented rise in young Malaysians’ participation in the country’s social and political affairs, facilitated almost entirely by the Internet. This phenomenon caught many by surprise considering that university students in the country had been barred through legislation from active involvement in political activities for more than 30 years. Through a survey of 514 university students in a Malaysian publ…
The oral case presentation: Toward a performance-based rhetorical model for teaching and learning
The oral case presentation is an important communicative activity in the teaching and assessment of students. Despite its importance, not much attention has been paid to providing support for teachers to teach this difficult task to medical students who are novices to this form of communication. As a formalized piece of talk that takes a regularized form and used for a specific communicative goal, the case presentation is regarded as a rhetorical…
Discourse Particles in Malaysian English: What Do They Mean
Regional varieties of language, often a result of language contact, possess various characteristics, such as borrowed words, and often structures, sounds, and meanings transferred from one or more languages. The variety of English used in informal contexts in Malaysia known as Malaysian English contains localized features resulting from contact with languages spoken by the local indigenous populations as well as the Chinese and Indian diaspora in…
Metaphor and the Representations of Health and Illness among the Semai Indigenous Community in Malaysia
Diverse methods and approaches have been utilised in researching the cultural bases of health, illness and wellbeing. Understanding the cultural representation of health and illness of particular communities becomes urgent especially when the community concerned is underserved in healthcare. In this project, we sought to examine the representations of health and illness by members of the Semai indigenous community through the use of metaphor anal…
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Product Information Brochure: How is Generic Structure Used to Persuade Potential Users
The presence and influence of complementary and alternative therapies have been increasingly felt in recent years. One reason for this is the active promotion of its services and products through various media channels. The current study focused on information brochures that are placed on pharmacy counters and shelves, and examined how they function as persuasive texts in promoting products and persuading potential users to buy them. The study ut…
Doing Legitimacy in Talk: The Production of Leader–Follower Relationship in Spiritual Consultation Interactions
Spiritual leaders achieve power over their followers through various means. Often overlooked is what happens in the interaction between spiritual leaders and their followers in the creation and legitimation of the leader’s power. In this study, we examined the discursive construction of leader–follower relationship in consultation interactions between a spiritual leader and his followers. Fifteen consultation sessions were analyzed using the disc…
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts
A Preliminary Study on the Use of Epithets in Kenyah Long Wat
Social status has long been a point of reference in addressing the individual. As observed in the Kenyah Long Wat community, members of a family are given epithets upon life events such as birth and death to signify their new status. Although the creation and use of epithets in indexing life events may be customary in many communities, the types and variety of linguistic forms used in different speech communities may well provide a lens through w…
Question design in veterinary consultations: Question forms and client responses in accomplishing problem presentation in a Malaysian context
Question design by medical practitioners has been shown to have important consequences on how patients present their problems in clinical consultations. Linguistic structure of questions as part of question design implements different communicative and pragmatic functions, and hence, affects patients’ response in different ways. This study examined types of questions asked by veterinarians in the problem presentation phase of the clinical consult…
Self and desired partner descriptions in the online romance scam: A linguistic analysis of scammer and general user profiles on online dating portals
A Systematic Review of Second-Person Knowledge Acquisition in First-Encounter Interactions
The acquisition of second-person knowledge in first encounters is a relatively unexplored area of investigation. In this study, we aim to shed light on this topic by systematically reviewing published research articles that describe the strategies and patterns observed when people seek to gain knowledge about one another in first encounters. Drawing on the framework of second-person knowledge and epistemics in conversation, we extracted relevant …
Discursive work in resisting stereotypic representations of the Chinese among Chinese students
The negative effects of stereotyping arising from a victim’s acceptance and internalisation of stereotype identities are well-known. As stereotypes are created and maintained in discourse, understanding how targets of stereotyping employ discursive resources to resist the constraining structures of stereotypic identities imposed upon them can provide insight into the process of stereotyping and contribute to efforts to reduce the threat of stereo…
Independent Writing Tasks vs. Integrated Writing Tasks: The Cognitive Demands and Their Impacts on Linguistic Complexity in EFL Writing
Despite many studies investigating the effects of task complexity on L2 writing performance, little attention has been given to the specific effects of independent vs. integrated writing tasks and their cognitive demands on EFL learners. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting a comprehensive examination of the cognitive demands exerted by these two types of writing tasks and their effects on linguistic complexity outcomes among 35 Chi…
The Effects of Task Types and Working Memory Capacity on the Writing Production of Chinese EFL Learners
The current study aimed to examine the effects of two types of writing tasks—an independent writing task and an integrated writing task—on 144 Chinese EFL learners’ writing production in terms of fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and syntactic complexity. Additionally, it investigated whether the learners’ working memory capacity has a mediating effect on their writing when responding to the two different types of writing tasks. The particip…
A comparative move analysis of problem-solution discourse within risk management reports by Malaysian and American banks
Background and Purpose: A risk management report (henceforth, RMR) is a comprehensive document that analyses the risks faced by banks and outlines strategies to mitigate these risks. It follows an organising framework – the Problem-Solution (henceforth, PS) pattern which emphasises identifying problems and their solutions. Such a pattern is typically used in technical texts. This study shows how the said pattern is implemented in the organisation…
Unprompted self-disclosure in first encounter interactions: An analysis of getting-to-know-you conversations between new acquaintances
Research on self-disclosure is well-established in psychology and communication studies; however, unprompted self-disclosure as an action in conversation has not received as much attention. First encounters are often marked by social uncertainty, and self-disclosure plays a crucial role in facilitating conversation. Using a qualitative approach informed by insights from pragmatics and Conversation Analysis, and complemented by an analysis of freq…
Culture in Foreign Language Teaching: An Analysis of the Conception of Culture Among French Teachers in Malaysia
Language is often taught in tandem with culture in foreign language classrooms. Learning the culture of the target language speech community has been regarded by foreign language teachers as a necessity, without which teaching is regarded as incomplete. Culture is often a taken-for-granted concept seen as unproblematic, where teachers’ personal knowledge of culture is used to guide their teaching. As teaching of culture in the classroom is depend…
Linguistic manipulation in telephone scam conversations: How are discourse strategies used to control victims
Telephone scammers achieve their purpose through live voice conversations to acquire sensitive information and defraud victims of their money as the eventual outcome. While much research has been conducted to deconstruct the nature of scams of various types, the telephone scam has not been given due attention, particularly through the lens of language in the exercise of control over victims. This study investigated how telephone scammers manipula…
Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 works)