Professor Jason Miin-Hwa Lim
Jason Miin-Hwa Lim is Professor of Linguistics and Education at the UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur. He has more than 37 years of teaching experience, including experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of Education and Social Development, Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning (CPKLL) in UMS, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts in the UCSI University. He has supervised many doctoral (Ph.D.) and Masters (M.A. and M.Ed.) students to completion in research domains relating to Applied Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, and English Language Teaching. He has taught a wide range of courses at tertiary level, including (i) ‘Spoken and Written Discourse’ at the Master’s level, (ii) ‘Syntax and the Structure of English’, ‘Phonology of English’, ‘Discourse Analysis’, 'Psycholinguistics' and 'World Englishes' at the Bachelor’s degree level, and (iii) ‘English for Research Purposes’. He has been the Chairperson of ‘English for Research Purposes’ in UMS. He won eight Commendable Service Awards, three Excellent Service Awards and a Creative and Interactive Blended Learning Award during the period from 1999 to 2018.
Professor Lim has published extensively in research domains relating to Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching. His recent publications include research-based papers in Iberica, SALALS, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, System, Discourse Studies, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, and ESP Today. He has published numerous papers in Quartile 1 (Q1) and Quartile 2 (Q2) journals indexed in Web of Science. Lim has won a total of 48 awards, including (i) the Awards for the Highest Citations in Scopus-indexed Journals in the Arts Category in 2019 and 2022, (ii) 11 Pereka research medals (including eight Gold Medals and three Silver Medals), and (iii) two Global Top 1% Reviewer Awards for Social Sciences in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 (awarded by Web of Science Group). He has presented working papers in many countries, and conducted 19 funded research projects in Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore and the United States of America. He won a Promising Researcher Award in the Social Science Category at UMS in 2012. He was a recipient of (i) the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award (for research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) in 2009 and 2010, and (ii) the RELC Research Grant for an investigation into the English pronunciation of second language learners in a Southeast Asian University in 2014 and 2015.
Professor Lim was invited to be a keynote speaker for seven international conferences. He was (i) a Keynote Speaker for the 'Third International Conference on the Teaching of English and Literature' (ICoTEL 3) organized by the Bengkulu University in 2022, (ii) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Education 2019’ (AICSSE 2019) held at the University of Cambridge in 2019, (iii) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘2018 5th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts’ (ICLLA 2018) held at the Seoul National University, (iv) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘International Seminar on Language Teaching 2014’ (ISOLT 2014) organised by Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in Kota Bahru, and (v) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘2016 International Conference on Culture, Languages and Literature’ (ICCLL 2016) held at Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was also the Convenor of the International Conference on Languages, Linguistics and Society (ICLALIS) in 2013. He is currently (i) an Editorial Board Member of Journal of English for Academic Purposes which is a Quartile 1 journal in Linguistics, (ii) an International Advisory Board Member of Journal of Modern Languages published by the University of Malaya, and (iii) an Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, a Scopus-indexed journal published by Asian Economic and Social Society. He has also been an international reviewer for 20 WoS-indexed and Scopus-indexed journals on Applied Linguistics, including those published by Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Oxford Academic, Sage, De Gruyter, and John Benjamins Publishing (see Publons.com). Lim was also appointed as a Consultant for a program in TESOL offered by Kinabalu Commercial College where he trained teachers in specific areas including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax. He has also been invited to be an External Assessor for courses offered by Wawasan Open University, including ‘Readings and Research Papers on the Teaching of English’ and ‘Discourse Analysis’. He has been an External Examiner of postgraduate research completed by candidates at the Nanyang Technological University, University of Malaya, National University of Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and the University of Nottingham.
Professor Lim has published extensively in research domains relating to Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching. His recent publications include research-based papers in Iberica, SALALS, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, System, Discourse Studies, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, and ESP Today. He has published numerous papers in Quartile 1 (Q1) and Quartile 2 (Q2) journals indexed in Web of Science. Lim has won a total of 48 awards, including (i) the Awards for the Highest Citations in Scopus-indexed Journals in the Arts Category in 2019 and 2022, (ii) 11 Pereka research medals (including eight Gold Medals and three Silver Medals), and (iii) two Global Top 1% Reviewer Awards for Social Sciences in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 (awarded by Web of Science Group). He has presented working papers in many countries, and conducted 19 funded research projects in Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore and the United States of America. He won a Promising Researcher Award in the Social Science Category at UMS in 2012. He was a recipient of (i) the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award (for research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) in 2009 and 2010, and (ii) the RELC Research Grant for an investigation into the English pronunciation of second language learners in a Southeast Asian University in 2014 and 2015.
Professor Lim was invited to be a keynote speaker for seven international conferences. He was (i) a Keynote Speaker for the 'Third International Conference on the Teaching of English and Literature' (ICoTEL 3) organized by the Bengkulu University in 2022, (ii) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Education 2019’ (AICSSE 2019) held at the University of Cambridge in 2019, (iii) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘2018 5th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts’ (ICLLA 2018) held at the Seoul National University, (iv) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘International Seminar on Language Teaching 2014’ (ISOLT 2014) organised by Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in Kota Bahru, and (v) a Keynote Speaker for the ‘2016 International Conference on Culture, Languages and Literature’ (ICCLL 2016) held at Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was also the Convenor of the International Conference on Languages, Linguistics and Society (ICLALIS) in 2013. He is currently (i) an Editorial Board Member of Journal of English for Academic Purposes which is a Quartile 1 journal in Linguistics, (ii) an International Advisory Board Member of Journal of Modern Languages published by the University of Malaya, and (iii) an Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, a Scopus-indexed journal published by Asian Economic and Social Society. He has also been an international reviewer for 20 WoS-indexed and Scopus-indexed journals on Applied Linguistics, including those published by Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Oxford Academic, Sage, De Gruyter, and John Benjamins Publishing (see Publons.com). Lim was also appointed as a Consultant for a program in TESOL offered by Kinabalu Commercial College where he trained teachers in specific areas including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax. He has also been invited to be an External Assessor for courses offered by Wawasan Open University, including ‘Readings and Research Papers on the Teaching of English’ and ‘Discourse Analysis’. He has been an External Examiner of postgraduate research completed by candidates at the Nanyang Technological University, University of Malaya, National University of Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and the University of Nottingham.
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authentic management research articles published in international refereed journals, this study aims to find out how ‘recommending further research’, an important rhetorical move in research papers, is realized using a wide array of linguistic choices. The results of this investigation have interesting pedagogical applications as they can be employed to
teach second language learners how to present their recommendations for further research by (1) employing logical shifts between research limitations and recommendations for future studies, and (2) using relevant rhetorical and linguistic choices to achieve their overt and/or covert communicative intentions.