Senior Assistant Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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About
James McLellan is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Brunei Darussalam. He has also taught at secondary and tertiary levels in the Brunei, UK, France, Malaysia, Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
- B.A. Cambridge University
- MA University of York
- PhD Curtin University of Technology
Teaching Area
- Language Issues in Brunei
- World Englishes
- Language Acquisition
- Analysing Talk
- Psycholinguistics
- English in Multilingual Societies in Southeast Asia
Current Research
- Language Alternation
- Multilingual Education
- Southeast Asian Englishes
- Borneo indigenous language maintenance strategies
Publications
- Barnard, R., & McLellan, J. (in press, 2013). Codeswitching in university English-medium classrooms: Asian perspectives. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 978 1 78309 089 1
- David, M. K, Rafik-Galea, S., McLellan, J., & Ain Nadzimah Abdullah (Eds.) (2009). Code switching in Malaysia. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-59564-0
- McLellan, J. (2013). Borneo language revitalisation: What should communities aim to revitalise? Languages, varieties, or subvarieties? To appear in A. Clynes, M Boutin & P. Sercombe (Eds.) Studies in memory of Peter W. Martin. Williamsburg, Va.: Borneo Research Council.
- McLellan, J., & Campbell, Y. M. (2013). Bidayuh as a subject at pre-school and primary levels. Towards a greater role for a Borneo indigenous language in the Malaysian education system. To appear in C. Volker & F. Anderson (Eds.), Education in languages of lesser power: An Asia-Pacific perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013
- McLellan, J., & Noor Azam Haji-Othman (2012). Features of the Brunei Darussalam variety of English. In E. L. Low & Azirah Hashim (Eds.), English in South East Asia: Features, policy and language in use(pp. 75–90). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
- Barnard, R., Field, J., & McLellan, J. (2012). An English language curriculum project in Timor Leste. Modern English Teacher, 20(3), 59–62.