Formal Name: Loy Lising Personal Title: Dr Position: Associate Lecturer Qualification: BA University of Queensland, MA De La Salle University, PhD De La Salle University Telephone: (+61-2) 9850 7952 Fax: (+61-2) 9850 7849 Email: loy.lising@mq.edu.au Location: W6C 122

Loy is an academic researcher with the AMEP Research Centre and is the coordinator for the longitudinal Special Project Research Program (SPRP) entitled Language training and settlement success: are they related?

Prior to joining Macquarie University, she was vice chair of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at De La Salle University in Manila and director for its teacher-training centre (2001-2002). She was also part of the Philippine research team that established the International Corpus of English – Philippine Component (ICE-PHI). ICE-PHI is the first mega-word corpus produced in the Philippines and is part of a multi-country project (ICE) involving 15 countries/regions in which English is spoken as a first language or as an official second language.

Loy guest lectures in the Department of Linguistics in the following courses:

LING936 Context, use and analysis of the English language: A global perspective
LING 928 Bilingualism
LING 317 Corpus linguistics

Research Interests

• World Englishes: Philippine English in the context of migration
  
• bilingualism in childhood: parental input, code-switching and metalinguistic skill
  
• language and identity

Filipino-English bilingual children's language acquisition: Exploring the relationship among degree of parental bilingual input, children bilingual production, comprehension, and metalinguistic ability (De La Salle University, 2004).

Selected Publications

Lising, J.L. (in press). Filipino children’s spontaneous use of thank you: influence of gender, interlocutor and socioeconomic status.

Lising, J.L. (2008). Translation: a bilingual metalinguistic skill that facilitates better comprehension. In Two or more languages: Proceedings from the 9th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, August 10-11, 2006, Joensuu. Nikolaev, Alexandre and Niemi, Jussi (eds.) Studies in languages / University of Joensuu; 43

Lising, J.L. (2006). Initial observations on child language. In Proceedings of the International Association of World Englishes 2006 Theory and Application: World Englishes in World Context 7-9 October. Nagoya, Japan. Chukyo University.

Bautista, M.L.S., Lising, L.V., and Dayag, D.T. (2004) ICE-Philippines Lexical Corpus - CD-ROM. London: International Corpus of English.

Lising, J.L. (2004). A Comparative Analysis of Enclitic Adverbs in Cebuano and Hiligaynon. Tanglaw 10 (1). 77-98.

Conferences

Thesis Supervision

Vittoria Grossi, PhD Candidate (Principal Supervisor Ingrid Piller)