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Academic Qualification
- Ph.D in TESL - Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
- Master in TESL - Masters Degree, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
- Bachelor of Education (Honours) TESOL - Bachelor Degree, Moray House College, Edinburgh
Maskanah Bt Mohammad Lotfie (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
maskanah@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
Dr Maskanah Mohammad Lotfie had obtained her BEd (Hons) TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) degree from Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1990, and then pursued MSc and Ph.D (TESL) at University Putra Malaysia, and was conferred the degrees in 2001 and 2007, respectively. Maskanah is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. She teaches Morphology, History of the English Language and Research Methodology.
Maskanah is currently carrying out research on the acquisition of English derivational and inflectional structures, academic plagiarism among students at the tertiary level and historical roots of Englishes.
Maskanah is currently carrying out research on the acquisition of English derivational and inflectional structures, academic plagiarism among students at the tertiary level and historical roots of Englishes.
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Language Acquisition (Including First Language Acquisition, SLA, Bilingualism, Foreign Language Learning) - Language Acquisition
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Applied Linguistics - Teaching English as a Second Language
Professional Membership
- 2006 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Malaysian English Language Teacher Association (MELTA)
- 2012 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Asia TEFL
Research Projects
Completed
2019 - 2022 | Constructing a new developmentally moderated model of English instruction with focus on form for Malaysian public preschools. |
2016 - 2019 | Language Policy and Practices in Indonesian Higher Education Institutions |
2015 - 2018 | An Analysis of Variation Theory Efficacy for Mobile Phone Application towards Enhancing Students? Knowledge of Grammar |
2014 - 2016 | The Relationship between Grammatical Knowledge Types and the Usage of Morphological Past Time Inflections |
2010 - 2012 | An Assessment of the Arabic Language Programme for Human Sciences Students at IIUM |
2009 - 2011 | A Corpus-based Study on the Temporal Systems of Malay and English |
2007 - 2008 | A Comparative Study of the Malay and the English Language Past Time Form Systems |
On-Going
Award & Recognition
02 Dec, 2016 | Award for 25 Years of Service - International Islamic University Malaysia | University |
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
Book
2019 | Research designs for language studies. University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1 |
2017 | The use of English derivational forms by Malaysian ESL learners: a linguistics analysis. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-558-9 |
2014 | Comparing selected higher education systems in Asia. Institut Terjemahan dan Buku Negara and IPPTN, ISBN: 9789674305277 |
2010 | Kelingkang. Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia, ISBN: 9789830685151 |
2010 | Kelingkang. Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia, ISBN: 9789830685151 |
Book Section
2019 | Introduction. In: University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1, pp. 1-8 |
2019 | Quasi-experiments. In: University of Malaya Press, ISBN: 978-967-488-081-1, pp. 161-176 |
2017 | The relationship between linguistic knowledge types and inflectional output. In: Silverfish Books, ISBN: 978-983-3221-64-6, pp. 228-259 |
2011 | A Malay-English cross-linguistic study of present time forms. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 53-60 |