In memoriam Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing

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Presents an obituary of Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing. Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing joined UMS on 19 September 2011. In the short span of three years she left an indelible mark as an inspirational and invaluable colleague in the HT06 TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) program, particularly her contributions to teaching and learning, research, publication, innovation, supervision and community outreach programs. Throughout her involvement in all these activities, she consistently demonstrated a high level of professionalism, dedication and devotion in all her duties and responsibilities. As a researcher, she has actively participated in various projects that were carried out both inside and outside Malaysia, among others the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) project in UMS; investigating the ICT needs of digital natives in the learning of English in public universities in Malaysia, and the UNICEF-sponsored evaluation study on Alternative Education Program for Refugees, Undocumented & Stateless Children in Sabah, Malaysia. She has to her credit more than 20 academic papers published in international journals, book chapters and proceedings. She was always attracted to CALL, and despite her tender years in the field, she left quite an impression of herself amongst CALL practitioners, so much so that she was made a committee member of the Organising Committee for the forthcoming GLoCALL 2014 Conference in Ahmedabad, India. She also taught her colleagues many things, particularly in applying Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)