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Dr. Manvender Kaur Sarjit Singh, Ph.D (TESL), M.Ed (TESL), B. Edu (TESL) is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Currently, she is teaching Research Methodology, Academic Writing, Discourse Analysis and Psycholinguistics to postgraduates. She has successfully supervised 14 PhD and 4 Master scholars. Her areas of research interest are TESL, ESP, Corpus Linguistics, Genre/Discourse analysis, Computer-Assisted Corpus Analysis (CACA) approach which she developed during her PhD study, critical discourse analysis, conducting language needs analysis in professional organizations, analyzing learner and genre-specific corpora. She holds the patent for the CACA approach. She is highly motivated to encourage teachers and to use corpus technology in language teaching and learning. At present, she is actively motivating teachers and scholars in conducting classroom-based investigations using the CACA approach to enhance classroom teaching and learning practices. She hopes to bring new and interesting classroom language teaching methodology. Her teaching goals include to provide as much knowledge and information as possible, to encourage my students into conducting project-based research and to enhance the teaching and learning practices. She has developed her own mentoring skills, leadership, practical and research experience and position her teaching philosophy within a learner- centered environment which focuses on learning values and new applicable knowledge. Her teaching philosophy is also influenced by the unique perspective that she brought along, as a result of her many years of experience working in a service-oriented government department where she built strong collaborative relationships across different groups of people in order to accomplish daily work- related tasks.
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