Contact

• workRoom B1A18
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8725 3609
• Christine.Leong@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr. Christine Leong graduated from the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham with a Bsc(Hons) in Psychology, and a PhD in Psycholinguistic. She is a chartered member of British Psychological Society and a registered ability educational test user with BPS. Christine joins the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham as an academic in year 2018. She is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Psychology, UNM. Her doctoral research examined bottom-up and top-down speech perceptual disadvantages of Malaysian multilingual, as well as methods to overcome these cognitive and neural disadvantages. Her current research interest lies in developmental trajectory of speech perception of multilingual, and understanding and improving linguistic experience of multilingual adults, typical and atypical young children.

Expertise Summary

Enthusiastic academic in both research and teaching. 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ interest in second language acquisition and developmental research. PhD in Applied Psycholinguistics, adapting laboratory training paradigms for use in applied domains. Christine is experienced in designing and conducting long-term, cross-cultural studies. Christine is also an educational test user and is experienced in adapting and validating psychological assessment tools.

Teaching Summary

I am currently teaching or am involved in:

1. PSGY2010 Statistical Methods 2
2. PSGY2011 Practical Methods in Psychology 2
3. PSGY3048 Introduction to Psychological Assessments
4. PSGY4074 Psychological Assessments

188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Summary

Christine is working on several ongoing projects that investigate impacts of languages on cognitive and information processing, second language use experience and develop or adapt psychological and… read more

Current 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@

Christine is working on several ongoing projects that investigate impacts of languages on cognitive and information processing, second language use experience and develop or adapt psychological and language tests to be used with non-native English population.

Open 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Resources:

Translation norms for Malay and English words

LexMAL (www.lexmal.org) - a 5-minutes online lexical test that estimates Malay language proficiency of Malay speakers for research use.

Please visit these website for more information:

http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Psychology/188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@/Cognition-and-Language.aspx

/Psychology/188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@/NottPAL.aspx

Past 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@

Publications

Stewart-Williams, S., Leong, C.X.R., Seto, S.A., Thomas, A.G. & Wong, X.L. The harm hypothesis: How perceived harm to women shapes reactions to research on sex differences. International Journal of Psychology, 59 (3), 495-504. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13101

Lee, S.T., van Heuven, W.J.B., Price, J.M. & Leong, C.X.R. (2023). LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers. Behavior 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02202-5

Wen, Y., Qiu, Y., Leong, C.X.R. & van Heuven, W.J.B. (2023) LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese. Behavior 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02151-z

Lee, S.T., van Heuven, W.J.B., Price, J.M. & Leong, C.X.R. (2022) Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics and language proficiency on translation. Behavioral 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01977-3

Leong, C.X.R., Price, J.M., Pitchford N.J., van Heuven, W.J.B. (2018) High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204888

Levitan CA, Ren J, Woods AT, Boesveldt S, Chan JS, McKenzie KJ, et al. (2014) Cross-Cultural Color-Odor Associations. PLoS ONE 9(7): e101651. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101651

Future 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@

Future 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Plans:

1. Translating, adapting and validating screening tools for developmental disorders with Malaysian population.
2. Examining validity of LexMAL across different language groups and assessment context.