CRESCENTIA

Graduated from Universiti Malaya with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons) in English Literature in 1992 and a Master of Arts, also in English Literature, in 1999. She served a scholarship bond with the New Straits Times as a journalist after receiving her first degree, and then returned to Universiti Malaya to enrol in the MA programme. She obtained her MA in 1999 upon submission of a thesis entitled ‘The Jew in America: The Dialogue of Becoming in the Fiction of Abraham Cahan’. In order to learn more about the world, she chose to work with Pearson Longman Malaysia rather than continue life as an academic. She stayed with Pearson for seven years, rising from Editor to Senior Editor to Commissioning Editor. She took a break of a year and half to try her hand at freelance writing, during which time she also taught English in an orphanage in Cambodia for three and a half months. She joined full-time teaching with Taylor’s University in 2008 as a lecturer in English with the School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts. In 2011, she moved to the International Medical University in Bukit Jalil, where she taught Academic English, general English and humanities subjects to medical, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and health science students. She is now pursuing a freelance career as a writer and editor. My lessons are interactive and solicit high student participation. I begin by gauging the student's level and then planning to meet the student's needs while keeping to syllabus requirements. I enjoy answering students' questions and getting them to think independently and am willing to work along their needs as far as possible i.e. they are free to suggest what methods etc. they may perceive to work best for them. Lessons would be based on theory, practice, assignments and evaluations and need not always be at one location or indoors, where possible. Where possible, I would like to use role-playing as well.I have taught at Universiti Malaya as a Language and Literature tutor and as a Lecturer of Language, Literature and MPU selective subjects (Theatre) at Life College, Taylor's U and the International Medical University