Mukhlis was trained in speech perception at Bangor and Edinburgh universities in the UK for his graduate studies, a field that straddles the disciplines of phonetics and cognitive science. He went on to work on Malay linguistics at the National University of Singapore, his first academic appointment. His interest in education brought him to NIE where he developed an expertise in the literacy practices of preschoolers before expanding into bilingualism, biliteracy and mother tongue language education. In recent years, he picked up phonetics again, specifically socio-phonetics, researching on pronunciation and identity in the Malay language.

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