Rita Elaine Silver is an Associate Professor at National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. She teaches courses on English Language methodology (with an emphasis on literacy and reading comprehension), language acquisition, classroom discourse, and qualitative research methods.
Her current research involves a school-based intervention to enhance reading comprehension instruction, encourage more open-ended discussion in the context of Singapore primary classrooms, and foster deeper reading comprehension skills (with Jessie Png), and a proof-of-concept study on research data archiving and access (with Dennis Kwek).
She is Co-Editor of Language and Education (from Jan 2016) (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rlae20#.Vphj4fl97IU) and was previously a Co-editor of Pedagogies: An International Journal (2013-2015). She has published in Cambridge Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Change, Language and Education, Language Policy, Language Teaching Research, System, and TESOL Quarterly.
Her most recent books are Quadrilingual Education in Singapore: Pedagogical Innovation in Language Education edited with Wendy Bokhorst-Heng (2016) and Language and Education: Social Implications with Soe Marlar Lwin (2014).