Debbie G.E. Ho

List of John Benjamins publications in which Debbie G.E. Ho is involved.

Articles

Ho, Debbie G.E., Alex Henry and Sharifah N.H. Alkaff 2012 “You don’t seem to know how to work”: Malay and English spoken complaints in Brunei Pragmatics 22:3, pp. 391–416 | Article

This study aims firstly to compare the complaints of local native-Malay speakers and expatriate native-English speakers in Brunei in terms of move structure and levels of directness combined with the frequency of modality markers; and secondly, it attempts to address the relationship between… read more

Ho, Debbie G.E. 2006 The focus group interview: Rising to the challenge in qualitative research methodology Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:1, pp. 5.1–5.19 | Article

This paper explores the possibility of expanding the focus group interview into the field of English as a Second Language (ESL), where this research methodology is yet to be thoroughly explored. Specifically, it aims to challenge popular criticisms about the reliability and validity of the focus… read more