Soon Tat Lee

Contact

• workMalaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• SoonTat.Lee@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

I graduated from the National University of Malaysia with a Bsc(Hons) in Speech Science. After serving as a speech-language therapist for five years in a public hospital, I embarked on my Ph.D. journey in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. I have successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis in December 2023. My research interests lie at the intersection of speech-language therapy and psycholinguistics, with a focus on enhancing bilingual language processing, testing and learning.

Expertise Summary

As a psycholinguist and speech-language therapist, I am fascinated by the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms involved in bilingual language processing, particularly how bilinguals acquire, comprehend, and produce words in the languages they speak. Additionally, I have a strong passion for language testing and test validation. Much of my current work focuses on developing language tests that assess specific language constructs in understudied language pairs such as Malay-English and Mandarin-English, and conducting language experiments using these tests to investigate the relationships between different aspects of language knowledge. The greater purpose of this work is to develop evidence-informed assessments with a practical impact for both researchers and practitioners to enhance language learning in multilingual contexts, including those with learning difficulties.

Selected Publications

• LEE, SOON TAT, VAN HEUVEN, WALTER J.B., PRICE, JESSICA M. and LEONG, CHRISTINE XIANG RU, 2023. LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers Behavior research methods.
• LEE, SOON TAT, VAN HEUVEN, WALTER J. B., PRICE, JESSICA M. and LEONG, CHRISTINE XIANG RU, 2023. Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation Behavior research methods. 55(7), 3585-3601
• LIM, HUI WOAN and LEE, SOON TAT, 2017. Assessing Children’s Native Language in Mandarin Using the Adapted New Reynell Developmental Language Scales-Mandarin (NRDLS-M) GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies. 17(2), 123-145

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• LEE, SOON TAT, VAN HEUVEN, WALTER J. B., PRICE, JESSICA M. and LEONG, CHRISTINE XIANG RU, 2023. Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation Behavior research methods. 55(7), 3585-3601
• LEE, SOON TAT, VAN HEUVEN, WALTER J.B., PRICE, JESSICA M. and LEONG, CHRISTINE XIANG RU, 2023. LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers Behavior research methods.
• LIM, HUI WOAN and LEE, SOON TAT, 2017. Assessing Children’s Native Language in Mandarin Using the Adapted New Reynell Developmental Language Scales-Mandarin (NRDLS-M) GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies. 17(2), 123-145