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Zhu Shenfa

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6516 3872
Email: elczs@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #03-14 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

ZHU Shenfa first graduated from Harbin Normal University, China, in 1986. After teaching in his alma mater for eight years, he was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, to pursue a Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching in the National Institute of Education, Singapore. In 1997, he was awarded a Master of Arts in English language by the National University of Singapore and, in the following year, a research scholarship leading to his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in phonetics and phonology.

Dr Zhu's research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, contrastive and translation studies of English and Chinese, teaching English and Chinese as a foreign/second language, and the features of Singapore English and Singapore Mandarin.

Courses Taught

  • ES5000 Graduate English I
  • ES5001A Graduate English II

Awards & Recognition

  • CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence AY2014/2015
  • CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence AY2013/2014
  • CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence AY2012/2013

Grant Projects

  • Teaching Enhancement Grant. (2018-2020). NUS Learner Corpus of Postgraduate Academic Writing. Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, NUS, with Cao Feng (principal investigator), Daron Benjamin Loo (co-investigator), and Wu Siew Mei (co-investigator)
  • Teaching Enhancement Grant. (2010). Addressing the grammar needs of incoming NUS foreign undergraduates (SM3 students) through the development of course materials in response to needs analysis. Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, NUS, with Jessie Teng (principal investigator), Priscillia Pui (co-investigator) and Yang Ying (co-investigator)
  • Teaching Enhancement Grant. (2007). An investigation into university students' written errors. Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, with support from the Centre for English Language Communication, NUS, with Wu Siew Mei (principal investigator) and Ruanni Tupas (co-investigator)

 

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