David Deterding David Deterding is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he has been teaching phonetics, grammar and Chinese-English translation since 1992. Together with Gloria Poedjosoedrmo, he has written two textbooks, The Sounds of English and The Grammar of English, both published by Prentice Hall, and together with Adam Brown and Low Ee Ling, he has edited three books of research papers on Singapore English. Read More Read Less