Biography
Soon-Hin Hew received his B.Sc. (1995) in the Faculty of Science, Mathematics, and Computers and his M.Sc. (1997) in the Faculty of Technology and Information Science at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). In July 1997, he joined Faculty of Creative Multimedia at the Multimedia University as a Lecturer. Later He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Information and Cognition, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was a member of the Japan Association for Language and Teaching (JALT) and the CALL SIG. His research interests are in CAI, CALL instructional design, and applied technology in education and multimedia, and interactive multimedia features to enhance the foreign language learning experience, comic reading experience, and storytelling. He have published more than 60 papers/book chapters and have developed few applications such as an application for Japanese language learners to learn to pronounce Japanese accurately, an application for Chinese language learners (beginner level) to learn the Chinese language online, and an application for non-Chinese language learner to recognize the stroke, pronunciation, and the meaning of Chinese character. His research works have been awarded