In The Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful<\/p>\n
I\u2019m Dr. Sarimah binti Shamsudin, an Associate Professor from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Campus. I have been an academic staff at UTM for almost 30 years. My career in UTM started off as a Language Teacher on 23rd July 1992. In 1995, I was appointed as a Tutor and pursued my Masters Degree at Aston University, UK. Upon completion of my Masters Degree in Teaching English for Specific Purposes, I was appointed as a UTM lecturer in 1997. \u00a0My pursuit for knowledge and career advancement led me to pursue my PhD after teaching in UTM for ten years. In 2008, I was awarded a PhD in ELT and Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, UK. Two years later, I was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer and in 2014, promoted to an Associate Professor. During my 25-year service in UTM, I received four awards, \u201cAnugerah Kepujian Universiti 2001\u201d and \u201cAnugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang\u201d in 2008, 2013 and 2020. While pursuing my PhD degree, I received funding from the University of Warwick to present my PhD research findings at a conference in Arizona, USA in 2003 and another funding from the organizers of E-Ducation Without Borders Conference to share my PhD research results at their conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2005. I was also invited to publish my PhD work in a journal called Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Vol. 19, No. 4 & 5, 2006) after presenting it at a conference in Ireland in 2005.<\/p>\n
Throughout my career at UTM, apart from fulfilling the responsibilities of teaching English Language proficiency courses and supervising TESL students with their research projects at the undergraduate, masters and PhD level, I was involved in students\u2019 affairs and extra curricula activities as a Felo for five years. Two years in Kampung Belian, while I was a Language Teacher and three years at Kolej Tun Fatimah after completing my Masters Degree. During my service as a Felo, I was also involved in conducting workshops and activities to improve not only UTM students\u2019 English language proficiency but also students\u2019 in the public schools, specifically children of FELDA settlers with the assistance of UTM students and staff.<\/p>\n
Among the major administrative duties that I carried out as an academic staff are to assume the duties of Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in UTM KL, Deputy Dean of Language Academy in UTM KL, Head of English Language Panel (Language Academy) and Head of English language labs in UTM JB and UTM KL. During my 4-year tenure as the Head of Language Lab in UTM JB (Jan 1999-March 2002), with the assistance of the Language Lab committee members and top administrators of UTM, we managed to secure funding to transform four of our analogue labs to state-of-the-art digital language labs. One other lab was upgraded using funding from UTM. Recently, we were successful in securing funding to upgrade one language lab in UTM KL and another in UTM JB\u00a0 during my term as Coordinator of the Language Labs in UTM KL (2011-now).<\/p>\n
My passion for research enabled me work in collaboration with researchers in Malaysia and overseas to \u00a0secure research funding from UTM, the Ministry of Higher Education and the British Council to conduct research in the areas of English for Specific Purposes, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Computer-Assisted Language Learning. In UTM, I took part in the assessment of UTM students Test of English Communication Skills (TECS) exams. Being a life member of the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA), I participated quite regularly at its annual conference as a paper presenter and have been appointed as a reviewer of articles for its journal called The English Teacher since 2011. I have also been appointed to review papers for publication in UKM\u2019s journal called GEMA and papers for our LSP conference. Over the years, I managed to publish several research articles in a few journals along with my co-researchers, undergraduate, masters and PhD students. I have also published two books with my colleagues. Currently, my Google Scholar citation index is 12 (h-index is 3 (WoS), 4 (Scopus) and 10 (Researchgate) and i-10 index is 16 (Google Scholar)) and hope to improve it in the near future.<\/p>\n
One of the UTM projects that I am involved in currently is the Global University Project called \u201cUTM Speaks to the World\u201d which entails conducting research on the communication needs and wants of UTM drivers and security officers and designing as well implementing training modules to help improve their communicative skills. The other is the Blossoms Project in which I am working in collaboration with a few Civil Engineering lecturers to design video clips in English that aims to improve learners\u2019 understanding of concepts related to Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n
There is so much more that I hope to accomplish throughout my career as an academic staff in UTM in terms of designing and implementing innovative teaching and learning techniques as well as conducting quality research and publication. Nevertheless, I hope that the minimal contribution that I have made so far would play a part in facilitating UTM to achieve its mission of being a leader in the development of human capital and innovative technologies that will contribute to the nation\u2019s wealth and its vision of becoming recognized as a world-class centre of academia and technological excellence with the help of Allah the Almighty.<\/p>\n
You can contact me via email, tel or fax.<\/p>\n