WEI Ruixue

I am a Ph.D. in linguistics specializing in language variation and language acquisition in bilingual contexts at the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS). My current research is on the language choice in candidates’ speech during Singapore General Election 2020 from a variationist perspective.

I received my M.A. in English Language and Linguistics from NUS in 2018 and I earned my B.A. in English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University in 2013.

In 2016, I joined the exchange programme in Harvard University to read Introduction to Linguistics and the Art of Communication.

I worked with Dr. Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine as a Research Assistant at NUS during the summer in 2017 on “Construct and evaluate example sentences in Mandarin Chinese”.

I am also a certified teacher of Chinese to speakers of other languages by the Confucius Institute Headquarters (2017).

Research Interests/ Primary Fields	language variation and change, sociolinguistic knowledge acquisition, children’s language acquisition, language in society, dialects studies
Dissertation Topic/ Title	The Phonological Variation and Sociolinguistic Knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and English Among Children of Immigrants from China in Singapore
Dissertation Advisor	Assistant Professor Starr, Rebecca Lurie
Recent Presentations	‘The Variation of Monophthong [o] in Taiyuan Southern Suburban Vernacular’, Shanxi University, May 2019.
Other Experience and Information	Awards Best Team Award in 2017 CELC Oral Communication Camp National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore People’s Choice Award in 2017 CELC Oral Communication Camp National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Outstanding Student Leader Award (undergraduate) Zhejiang University Work experience Director, Uplus Education and Culture Pte Ltd, Singapore (2019-now) Assistant Principal, United Lisen Education Centre, Singapore (2014-2016) Languages Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent), French (elementary)

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