Niranjana Dhawan

Niranjana Dhawan

  • Senior Teaching Fellow
English for Specific Academic Purposes

Biography

Niranjana Dhawan (Neera) is a highly-motivated Communication Skills and ESL lecturer and a passionate corporate trainer with over 17 years of experience. She is an accomplished TESOL, IELTS and TOEFL trainer and she has developed many courses for students and adult learners. She has been teaching English and Communication Skills at the Centre for English Language Studies, Sunway University since 2016. Currently, Neera teaches Communication Skills to second year undergraduates. She is also a content developer and trainer for various training programmes for Sunway Group HR. Her research interests are classroom action research, online learning and professional development.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Certified Professional Trainer and Facilitator (CPTF), University of Malaya, Malaysia (2014)
  • MA in Communication Management, University of South Australia, Australia (2009)
  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TESOL) Certification, ELS Language Centre, USA (2006)
  • BA (Hons) English, University of Delhi, India (1994)

Research Interests

  • Collaborative learning
  • Organisational communication
  • Classroom action research