Dr Jessie TENG – NUS CELC

Jessie Teng

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6516 3727
Email: elctengj@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-27 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Jessie TENG is a Senior Lecturer at CELC, where she has been teaching for more than two decades. Her students have consisted of both undergraduate and graduate students, and she has taught a variety of modules, including proficiency, academic writing, critical thinking and communication skills modules.

Jessie graduated three times from NUS, with a Bachelor of Science (BSc), majoring in Biology, a Master of Arts (MA) of Southeast Asian Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociolinguistics. She also has a Master of Arts (MA) in English Language Teaching from the University of Sheffield, UK.

She is currently a peer reviewer for SN Social Sciences, a publication of Springer Nature. Her recent research interest is in how teacher and student peer feedback impact student learning.

Courses Taught

ES2631 Critique and Communication of Thinking and Design
ES5001A Graduate English Course: Intermediate Level Writing
GET1034 Communication and Critical Thinking for Community Leadership
PR4195/6 Conducting and Communicating Pharmacy Research

Awards

CELC Teaching Excellence Award, AY2013/14
NUS Teaching Excellence Award, AY2000/01

Grant Projects

Teaching Enhancement Grant (AY20/21): "Effectiveness of dialogic feedback: Impact of questioning techniques used in tutor-student conferences" (Principal Investigator, with Norhayati Ismail and Daron Benjamin Loo)

Selected Publications (since 2019)

Ismail, N., Loo, D. B., & Teng, J. (2020). Emotional affordances in online 'classrooms'. Modern English Teacher, 29(4). https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/emotional-affordances-in-online-classrooms
Lee, K.C., Teng, J., Goh, H., & Wong, K.W. (2019). SOTLing as a Community. SOTL Matters. Retrieved from https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/emotional-affordances-in-online-classrooms
Lee, K.C., Goh, H., Teng, J., & Wong, K.W. (2020). Flipped classroom: An investigation into learner engagement during non-face-to-face components. SOTL in the South, 4(2), 118-137.
Teng, J. (2020, December 15). Online quizzes for enhanced student learning. Teaching Connections. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2020/12/15/online-quizzes-for-enhanced-student-learning/
Teng, J., Ismail, N., & Loo, D. B. (2021, March 17). Use of questions in dialogic feedback for enhanced learning and thinking. Teaching Connections. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2021/03/17/use-of-questions-in-dialogic-feedback-for-enhanced-learning-and-thinking/

Selected Presentations (since 2019)

Teng, J., Ismail, N., & Loo, D. B. (2022, May) Dialogic feedback: Types of tutor questions used [Paper presentation]. CELC 6th Symposium, Singapore. https://www.nus.edu.sg/celc/esymposium/index.html