Pakse

Peggie CHAN is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore. She obtained her first MA (American Literature) from the University of Malaya, and her second MA (English Language) from the National University of Singapore.
Peggie has taught academic writing in various faculties and at various levels.

Currently, she teaches Critical Thinking & Writing to Engineering students, Professional Communication to Design and Environment students, and Evaluating Academic Arguments, a cross-faculty module. She is heavily involved in the development of materials which include assessment.

Peggie is an effective teacher, receiving the Centre’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2008, and winning the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2009.

Peggie’s research interests are in the teaching of critical thinking and writing. She regularly presents at the Centre’s staff seminars, university-wide seminars for staff and students, and international conferences. Her latest publication is a co-authored volume entitled Communicating in the University Culture.

Savannakhet

CHEW Moh Leen is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore. She has 27 years of teaching experience. Courses she has taught range from business communication and English skills offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students from various faculties, to communication workshops conducted for working professionals. In the past few years, her teaching focus is on the Intermediate Level Writing module which helps postgraduate students develop their academic writing skills.

Moh Leen is a very effective teacher. She has received the CELC’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence for five years. In addition, Moh Leen received the NUS Teaching Excellence Award in 2004.

Moh Leen’s main research interest is in testing and she has been actively involved in implementing a training programme for raters in CELC to assess its large scale English placement tests, and in creating rubrics and performance descriptors for the raters to use. She also has interest in reflecting on classroom teaching/learning so as to formulate how best to facilitate her students in achieving the learning objectives.

Bankeun

DENG Xudong is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore (NUS). He has taught English Proficiency, English for Academic Purposes, Cross-Cultural Communication for undergraduate students, and a PhD Thesis and Research Paper Writing course for doctoral students. Xudong received the CELC’s Commendation for Excellence Teaching award four times, in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009.

Xudong obtained his PhD in Applied Linguistics at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Earlier he received two Master’s degrees, one in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and the other in Linguistics for English Language Teaching with a special focus on language testing.

Xudong has presented and published papers on a wide range of topics, including syllabus design, curriculum development, material design, use of IT, course evaluation, classroom teaching techniques, pragmatics, and cross-cultural communication. His most recent publications include two papers in Handbook of Pragmatics, one paper in Pragmatics: The Quarterly Publications of the International Pragmatics Association, and one book chapter in The Pragmatics of Interactions published by John Benjamins.

Luangprabang

Susan TAN has been teaching at the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore for the past 12 years. During this period of time, she has taught academic writing, oral communication skills and PhD thesis writing to graduate students. Susan also coordinated and taught English for Academic Purposes for undergraduates at the Science Faculty. For the last two and half years, she has been co-ordinating and teaching a Writing module for Science Faculty undergraduate students.
Susan received the CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence award for AY2007/2008 and AY2008/2009. Susan is also a recipient of the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for 2008/2009.

Susan currently serves as the Chair of Large Scale Tests Committee which is involved in designing and planning large-scale (entrance as well as placement) tests for NUS. Her research interests are in the areas of testing and academic writing.

Khangkhay

Maria Luisa C. SADORRA has been teaching at the Centre for English Language Communication since 2001. She has taught academic writing and communication courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been involved in language consultancy work aimed at further promoting various workplace literacies. In 2007, Luisa received the Commendation for Teaching Excellence from the Centre.

Luisa’s work on teacher education was recognized by her receipt of the TOEFL Board Award for International Participation in TESOL in 2002 (Salt Lake City), and in 2006, with a co-authored contribution to TESOL’s Communities of supportive professionals, Professional
Development in Language Education series. In March 2009, Luisa was
an invited speaker at the 43rd Annual TESOL Convention (Denver).

Prior to joining CELC, Luisa was involved in the British Council
(Manila) teacher training program in the mid 80s while she taught
writing and speech communication courses at De La Salle University
(DLSU). She also served as a research grant reviewer for the
International Reading Association’s Teacher as Researcher Committee.
Her passion for teaching and desire to improve classroom instruction
steered her to spearhead a national teacher training program in the late 90s, when she served as chair of the English Language Education
department at DLSU. Outside academia, she is a Wimbledon and F1
Singapore Grand Prix fan and a chess aficionado.

Pakse

Brad BLACKSTONE is Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore (NUS), and Chief Editor of ELTWorldOnline.com. Currently, Brad coordinates and teaches a professional communication skills course for science and engineering students. Before coming to Singapore, Brad taught composition, EAP and communication skills in universities in Japan, Malaysia, Portugal and the United States. He also designed, directed and implemented teacher training programs for the Japanese Ministry of Education and several Japanese universities and communication skills workshops for multinational corporations.

Recently, in line with his research interest in pedagogical blogging and academic writing, he has done teacher training at universities in East Java, Indonesia, and has conducted related workshops at NUS. He has presented at conferences throughout Asia and published in the areas of academic writing and CALL. A dedicated teacher, Brad received the CELC Commendation for Teaching Excellence for Academic Years 2007/8 and 2009/10.

Savannakhet

Beatriz P. LORENTE has a PhD in Language Studies. She has been teaching a broad range of academic writing courses to undergraduate and graduate students for the past 14 years. She has taught in universities in the Philippines, Singapore and the United States. She was a teacher trainer with the Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching in the Philippines and was part of the Philippine English Language Teaching Project, a four-year program to improve English language teaching in public secondary schools in the country.

Beatriz has research interests in language and globalization, language policy and academic writing. Her PhD dissertation on language, labor migration and domestic work was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for best PhD thesis in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore in 2007. She has presented her research as an invited plenary and panel speaker as well as a paper presenter at major international conferences such as the AILA Congress, the Sociolinguistics Symposium and the AILA Language and Migration Research Network Seminar. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her thesis for publication with Multilingual Matters.

Khangkhay

Priscillia Pui has more than ten years of experience in teaching ESL and EFL students, having worked in Malaysia and Australia before she joined CELC in 2008. The types of modules she has taught include EAP, Intensive English Programme, Workplace Communication Skills and Critical Thinking Skills.

Her strengths lie mostly in the area of teaching; she enjoys finding ways to motivate her students and to help her students learn effectively. She has carried out action research on the use of form-focused teaching in the area of speaking and listening, as well as the use of debates in teaching argumentative writing. She is also interested in researching the effectiveness of teacher feedback on students’ writing. She was one of the recipients of the CELC Teaching Excellence Award for AY08/09, in the category of EAP.

Luangprabang

Chitra VARAPRASAD is a senior lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore. Chitra obtained her doctorate in 2005 from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.

Chitra has taught academic writing both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently she is teaching an advanced writing module on thesis writing to graduate students.

Chitra’s current research interest is in exploring students’ learning processes in the classroom. Her other research interests include teaching methodologies, materials development in reading, writing and grammar. Chitra is also a strong advocate of reflective teaching, genre and process approaches.

Chitra’s most recent publications include Teaching Reading in ESL and EFL settings: A comparison in ELTWO and a chapter inDeveloping the Academic Essay in Communicating in the University Culture. Chitra also presented a paper titled Reading for Summarizing: How do International Graduate Students Read? at the CELC 2010 International symposium ‘Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives: Reflections and Practices in ELT’.

Bankeun

WONG Soon Fen is Lecturer in the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC). Since joining CELC in 2007, she has taught writing courses for undergraduates from the School of Business, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Computing and the Faculty of Science (NK1001, EA1101/ET1000/NK1001 and SP1203) as well as international postgraduates from different faculties (PE5001A, ES5000 and ES5001B). Soon Fen is also Coordinator of a bridging course for the Ministry of Education Senior Middle 2 scholars from the People’s Republic of China.

Prior to CELC, Soon Fen’s journey in English Language Teaching (ELT) as teacher, teacher trainer and project manager in different institutions (Raffles Girls’ School, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre and the Singapore International Foundation) took her to beautiful countries (now second homes) like Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Nepal, Timor Leste and Vietnam.

Her research interests include sociolinguistics, teaching methodology, collaborative learning, intercultural communication and educational work in developing countries.

Bouakhong Keoasa is a teacher trainer at Bankeun Teacher Training College (BTTC). He is currently teaching two courses at BTTC: Methodology and General English. Besides teaching, he is also a Deputy Head of the Assessment and Evaluation Section at BTTC, responsible for the annual assessment and evaluation of teacher trainers’ teaching performance and teacher trainees’ learning outcomes. From 2001 to 2005, Bouakhong was a key teacher trainer in a programme sponsored by the Voluntary Service Overseas, U.K. During this period, he contributed to the writing of the Manual Methodology Handbook for teacher training colleges in Laos.
Bouakhong received a certificate in Journalism at Karlova University, Czech Republic (1991), a Bachelor’s degree for the Teaching of Russian as a Second Language at Pedagogical University of Vientiane, Laos (1996), and a Master of Education at Hiroshima University, Japan (2007). His research interests include education management, and the teaching of vocabulary and academic writing.

Bounseng Khounphon is Deputy Head of the English Language Department at Bankeun Teacher Training College (BTTC) in Vientiane Province, Laos. She has 15 years of college level English teaching experience. She has taught a number of English courses to teacher trainees, including General English, Methodology and Reading. Bounseng is a key teacher trainer for secondary school English teachers in Vientiane Province, responsible for supervising the teaching practice of teacher trainees at BTTC.
Bounseng received a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2009, in a joint project between the National University of Laos and Stockholm University (Sweden). In 1997, she received the AusAID scholarship for undergraduate study in TESOL in the English Language Resource Centre. As part of the scholarship programme, she completed a three week workshop course on Methodology in Teaching English at the Regional English Language Centre (Singapore).

Thipphaphone Vonxay graduated from Bankeun Teacher Training College (BTTC) in 2000. From 2004 to 2008, she studied in Sydney, Australia. In 2004, she obtained Certificate IV in Information Technology (Helpdesk) at TAFE Liverpool, and in 2005 a Diploma in English for Academic Purposes at Australian College of English. From 2006 to 2008, she obtained the Bachelor of Adult Education and the Master of Arts (TESOL) at the University of Western Sydney.
After finishing her studies in Australia in 2008, she returned to Laos to continue teaching at BTTC, where she teaches both English and IT. As an English teacher, she teaches such courses as Curriculum Analysis, Teaching Methodology, Writing, and General English. As an IT teacher, she teaches the basic skills of using MS-Office and Database for teacher trainees. Administratively, she is Head of Data Collection and Statistic Analysis Unit in the Evaluation Division at BTTC.

Souktisak Veekhoonthong is a teacher trainer at the Khang Khay Teacher Training College, where he serves as head of the foreign relations unit and administration and finance office. Souktisak’s interesting education background has prepared him for his concurrent teaching and administrative duties at the college. He obtained his diploma in teaching English from the same college in 2002, he received his diploma in business (human resources) from Southbank Institute of Technology in Brisbane, Australia in 2006, and he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in education at the National University of Laos. Souktisak served as a key teacher trainer with the Volunteer Services Overseas and was awarded a certificate of achievement. He presented a paper on vocabulary instruction at the Fifth Lao TESOL Conference in 2004. He believes that his participation in this project will further enhance his approaches to classroom teaching and promote high student engagement in his classes—new knowledge that he would like to impart to his teacher trainees at the college.

Cha Lor has been teaching for three years at the Khang Khay Teacher Training College (KKTTC). He has been involved in curriculum projects at the Teacher Education Management Information System at KKTTC. He currently teaches reading and basic grammar. Cha Lor attended the National University of Laos where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in education in 2007. Cha Lor looks forward to building his knowledge in the areas of academic writing and methodology. He also hopes that the training he receives in this project will better equip him to address methodology-related issues at the KKTTC.

Samlan Keopasong teaches at the Khang Khay Teacher Training College. Samlan obtained his education diploma from the same college and a bachelor’s degree in education from the National University of Laos. He has been teaching methodology and general English since 2002. Samlan has found classroom teaching very rewarding and has committed himself to teaching 26 class sessions each week, running from morning till evening. Samlan finds it extremely rewarding to participate in this project as he believes this project will help him gain a clear understanding of student motivation and effective academic writing instruction.

Phetmany Philasouk has been a teacher of English since 1996. After graduating from the Pedagogy University of Laos, she taught English there for one year before she moved to Luang Prabang Teacher Training College. Apart from teaching English, she has taught the subject, School Management in Lao language. She has also worked as a key trainer of English language teaching to year one teachers of lower secondary school. Apart from teaching, she is responsible for foreign affairs at Luang Prabang TTC.

She received her Masters in Arts in 2004 in Educational Management at Flinders University in Australia under the AUSAID scholarship. She obtained her certificate in TESOL awarded by University of Technology Sydney in 1998. She also participated in a short term training programme in 1996 in English language teaching in Vientiane, supported by SEAMEO, Singapore.

In 1997, she was in a team which adapted two English grammar textbooks for use in Laos and co-authored the accompanying teachers’ guides. These textbooks are used in all TTCs in Laos. This project was funded by the Voluntary Service Oversea. Her research interests are English language curriculum development of the TTCs and academic writing.

Ammala Chanthamaly works as a teacher of English at Luang Prabang Teacher Training College. After she graduated at Luang Prabang Teacher Training College and obtained a Diploma certificate in 2004, she was chosen to be a teacher trainer there. Since then, she has taught many subjects, such as General English, Grammar, Reading, Listening and Writing.

Her interest in writing started early in life and she has won several writing contests in the Lao language. She has written and illustrated a short story in English “The Princess from the God” which is very popular with many students.

Amamala is also interested in using computer technology as she is responsible for doing statistics in the department. She has also obtained a certificate in Lao TESOL conference in 2009.

Her interest in learning and professional development led her to be appointed as a member of the “Lesson Study” Project in the Teacher Training College. This project is aimed at improving teaching techniques and is supported by the Japanese government. She has joined with other teachers to make a lesson plan and to pilot the lesson in classes. Through a process of teaching, observation, feedback, revision the lesson plan is improved. Recently, she has developed interest in research in grammar teaching.

Sengmany Sosingdara has been teaching English for almost 16 years in both secondary schools and the teacher training college. Immediately after graduation in 1995, she taught in a lower secondary school in the rural area for four years. She has taught both English, Methodology of Teaching English, Writing for Beginners and Presentation Skills, and some general pedagogical subjects in Lao.

During her career, she received several scholarships to further her education. Sengmany completed her Masters in Arts in Curriculum and Instruction in 2006 from the Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden. She received the AUSAID scholarship for undergraduate in TESOL in 1996 supported by the University of Technology, Sydney and a postgraduate diploma in TESOL in 1998 from the same university. More recently, in 2008 she attended a Pedagogical University Course at the Stockholm University.

Apart from teaching, she has also been a key trainer in the Professional Development Programme in the northern region and is a key trainer in teaching English for the Voluntary Service Oversea in Luang Prabang. Additionally, she was an invited teacher for the Masters Course in Curriculum and Instruction at the National University of Laos.

Currently, she is in charge of organizing Professional Training like “Action Research” and “Lesson Study” for both teachers with the TTC and secondary schools. Her research interests concern students’ motivation in oral communication and academic writing.

Boualaphan Soupathong, 28, is from Pakse and is married with one child. She has been teaching in Pakse Teacher Training College (TTC) since 2003. She has taught English at various levels as her trainees come from different areas and have varying proficiency levels. An active teacher, she is able to cope with teaching her students at these different levels.
In 2006, after teaching at Pakse TTC for four years, Boualaphan was awarded the ADS (Australian Development Scholarship) which took her to Vientiane for a one-year preparatory course. In 2008, she studied at the TAFE city campus in Adelaide to pursue an advanced diploma in Business Management.
Boualaphan feels privileged to be part of the Academic Writing Teaching Methodologies for English Language Teacher Trainers in Laos project, as she knows it will help her acquire valuable skills in training her teachers.

Lamxe Liamsithisack is a trainer at Pakse Teacher Training College (TTC). She has been teaching English there for 7 years. After being there for 4 years, she was awarded the ADS (Australian Development Scholarship in 2006. In 2007, she went to Vientiane for a one-year English preparation program at the Vientiane College. In 2008 she studied in Adelaide, South Australia for two years, obtaining a TAFE diploma in the field of Early Childhood Education.
Upon returning to Laos, Lamxe returned to teach at Pakse TTC where she currently teaches at the English department. She also teaches trainees who will become kindergarten and primary school teachers. She is also involved in a Norwegian project that supports two kindergartens in Pakse, namely, the Pakse TTC Kindergarten and the Phontong Kindergarten. On this project, she hopes to broaden her horizons especially in learning to bridge the gap between how teaching is done in Australian kindergartens and how it is done in Laotian kindergartens.
Apart from teaching and mentoring teachers, Lamxe is pursuing these courses: a Bachelor’s degree through both summer and weekend courses, a three-year summer Bridging Curriculum course, and a five-year Business Administration program at Rattan.

Thanong Phoonsavat has been working for the past 11 years as a teacher trainer at Pakse Teacher Training College (TTC) from which he graduated with a diploma in English. When he first taught at Pakse TTC, Thanong attended a Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) workshop. He was then awarded a Mongbusho scholarship which took him to Kagoshima University in Southern Japan where he studied Curriculum Development for 18 months. On his return to Laos, he continued teaching at Pakse TTC. He has since then attended many workshops conducted by overseas volunteers, such as the Textbook Workshop, Writing a Big book Workshop and the Curriculum Development Workshop. Thanong has a passion to share what he learnt from these workshops with his trainees.
Thanong is currently following a summer course to pursue a Bachelor degree. Additionally, he plans to further enrich his experience by doing a Masters and a Ph.D.

Khampasong KHOUNMISAY first graduated from the Savannakhet Teacher Training College (STTC) in 1998. Then, in 2003/2004, he received added training in the teaching of foreign languages at the Ibaraki University, Japan, and graduated with a Bachelor of English Methodology. After returning to Laos, he further pursued study in the teaching of English at STTC.

Khampasong is currently the Head of the Supporting Academic Unit at STTC. He also teaches Methodology at the Foreign Language Office, and he has taught this course for 13 years. Khampasong teaches excellently and in 2009, he was awarded a Certificate of Merit in recognition of his excellent teaching.

Khampasong’s main research interest is in teaching methodology that centred on investigating effective teaching techniques to help students acquire skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Another research interest of Khampasong is finding effective ways to teach STTC teacher trainees how to write academic text so that they could become professional writing teachers in secondary schools.

Latthanongsay SAYSANA was trained as an English teacher at the Savannakhet Teacher Training College (STTC). There, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in teaching English. Since his graduation seven years ago, Latthanongsay has been responsible for teaching general English to teacher trainees. His focus is on teaching grammar, usage, writing and reading skills. For his effective teaching in the academic year, 2009/2010, Latthanongsay received an Excellent Teaching Certificate issued by Teacher Training Department, Lao PDR.

Besides teaching, Latthanongsay also regularly organizes English activities such as drama, singing contests, quizzes for STTC students to participate in. To him, these activities provide a good platform for students to practice what they have learned beyond the classroom.

Latthanongsay is interested in finding out the how and why of teaching academic writing. This interest stems from his observation that English teachers in Laos may not be aware of the need to develop themselves professionally and of the need to use academic writing to pursue higher degrees like masters and doctorates. Thus, he wants to research on the importance and necessity of teaching academic writing.

Soutsakhone SAYSITHIDETH received his Bachelor of Education from the Savannakhet Teacher Training College (STTC), and he was also trained as an English language teacher in the college.

Soutsakhone is currently the Head of the Research Assessment and Evaluation Unit in the Assessment and Evaluation Office (AEO) of STTC. Before he moved to work at AEO, he worked as an English Language teacher at the Foreign Language Office of STTC for nine years. His teaching areas covered a variety of subjects such as teaching methodology, general English, English for special purposes, and writing, reading and study skills.

Soutsakhone has attended many workshops on English teaching methodology. Twice a year in STTC, he attends the English teaching methodology workshop for teaching Lao secondary school students, an initiative supported by the Voluntary Service Overseas. Additionally, in 2004 he participated in the TESOL conference held in Vientiane College, Laos.

STTC students’ main difficulties are in acquiring writing and speaking skills, and Soutsakhone faces many challenges in teaching them these skills. Teaching writing and speaking skills has thus become Soutsakhone’s main research interest.

CHNG Huang Hoon has degrees in Philosophy (Honours) and English Language (MA), both from the National University of Singapore, and in Linguistics (PhD, University of Texas-Austin, USA). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. Her research interests include gender, ideology and identity construction. Her publications on the subject of gender include the book, Separate and Unequal: Judicial Rhetoric and Women’s Rights (2002, John Benjamins, Amsterdam) and several articles including “’We women aren’t free to die’: Transacting sexualities in a feminism classroom in Singapore (2004, Critical Asian Studies) and “The politics of representation: Negotiating crisis in a feminism classroom” (2007, Australian Feminist Studies, both co-authored with Chitra Sankaran). She has also contributed articles on identity construction, including “’You see me no up’: Is Singlish a problem” (2003, Language Problems and Language Planning) and “Celebrating Singapore’s development: An analysis of the millennium stamps” (2004, in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, Lynne Young and Claire Harrison, eds.). She is currently the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CDTL) at her university and is on leave from her department for the duration of this appointment. She can be contacted at cdthead@nus.edu.sg.

DENG Xudong is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC), National University of Singapore (NUS). He has taught English Proficiency, English for Academic Purposes, Cross-Cultural Communication for undergraduate students, and a PhD Thesis and Research Paper Writing course for doctoral students. Xudong received the CELC’s Commendation for Excellence Teaching award four times, in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009.

Xudong obtained his PhD in Applied Linguistics at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Earlier he received two Master’s degrees, one in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and the other in Linguistics for English Language Teaching with a special focus on language testing.

Xudong has presented and published papers on a wide range of topics, including syllabus design, curriculum development, material design, use of IT, course evaluation, classroom teaching techniques, pragmatics, and cross-cultural communication. His most recent publications include two papers in Handbook of Pragmatics, one paper in Pragmatics: The Quarterly Publications of the International Pragmatics Association, and one book chapter in The Pragmatics of Interactions published by John Benjamins.

George JACOBS holds a PhD in Education and has almost 30 years experience teaching students and teachers, including about 20 years in Asia. The institutions where he has taught include the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation’s Regional Language Centre (SEAMEO RELC), Singapore’s National Institute of Education, the Center for American Education (Singapore), Chiang Mai University and Singapore’s Ministry of Education. Dr Jacobs has written many books (for teachers and students) and numerous journal articles. He serves on the boards of the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education and the Extensive Reading Foundation. His main areas of interest in Education are Cooperative Learning and Environmental and Humane Education.

WU Siew Mei teaches English and communication courses at the Centre. Her research interest stems from related English language classroom issues including investigations into the nature of academic writing, objective testing in large scale English language proficiency assessment and the validation of test descriptors. Her publications analyse the linguistic construction of writer voice and stance in academic texts written by novice writers. She has published in various journals including Reflections on English language Teaching, the Regional English Language Centre Journal, PROSPECT ( An Australian TESOL Journal)  and English for Academic Purposes Journal. She has also served as the Chief Editor for the Centre’s Second International Symposium Proceedings and has done invited  reviews for various  international journals, including the Journal for Second Language Writing. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board for the on-line Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy.

Maria Luisa C. SADORRA has been teaching at the Centre for English
Language Communication since 2001. She has taught academic writing
and communication courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been involved in language consultancy work aimed at further promoting various workplace literacies. In 2007, Luisa received the Commendation for
Teaching Excellence from the Centre.

Luisa’s work on teacher education was recognized by her receipt of the
TOEFL Board Award for International Participation in TESOL in 2002
(Salt Lake City), and in 2006, with a co-authored contribution to TESOL’s
Communities of supportive professionals, Professional Development in Language Education series. In March 2009, Luisa was an invited speaker at the 43rd Annual TESOL Convention (Denver).

Prior to joining CELC, Luisa was involved in the British Council (Manila)
teacher training program in the mid 80s while she taught writing and speech communication courses at De La Salle University (DLSU). She also served as a research grant reviewer for the International Reading Association’s Teacher as Researcher Committee. Her passion for teaching and desire to improve classroom instruction steered her to spearhead a national teacher training program in the late 90s, when she served as chair of the English Language Education department at DLSU. Outside academia, she is a Wimbledon and F1 Singapore Grand Prix fan and a chess aficionado.