EDUCATIONCONF Speakers

Dr. Parul Popat is an Associate Professor with the PG Department of English, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. A staunch believer of self-learning, she promotes learner-centric education through blended learning. Her areas of interest include English Language Teaching, Teaching-Learning Material and its Production, Digital Humanities, E-Teaching, Learning & Assessment, Educational Technologies, Instructional Strategies, Indian English Writing, Adaptations of Literature, etc.

An educator with 10 years of experience in the academic industry holding a variety of roles from being a classroom teacher, a school researcher, a Curriculum Developer, and an Accreditation Coordinator for local and international schools. A professor in the College of Education with a researcher assignment in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Development at the Rizal Technological University, a state university in the Philippines. An editorial consultant for the Textbooks Department of Anvil Publishing, a multi-awarded publishing company in the Philippines.

She lives to teach. She is building her exciting career as a teacher of English and German as a foreign language for over two decades. Making research of her work and following her college’s new insights keeps her going and not falling behind.

A Lecturer of Translation studies and Applied Linguistics. Department of English Language and Literature _Northern Border University (NBU)_ Saudi Arabia. He is currently PhD candidate in the school of Modern languages and linguistics at the University of Limerick in Ireland. His research interests include Arabic-English translation pedagogy, translator training, Academic writing, and Genre pedagogy, new media technologies, and Interactive WEB 2.0 applications, particularly digital online blogging in EFL wring instruction. He has published a number of articles and papers in a number of international journals and conferences.

Norfarizan Mohamad is an English teacher cum warden in Banting Science Secondary School, (abbreviated BASIS), a boarding school in Banting, Selangor, Malaysia. Currently, she is pursuing her doctoral studies in English in Islamic Science University of Malaysia, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Knowing the fact that English is important for secondary school students to be able to connect with people from various countries as well as improving one’s quality of life by providing job opportunities; Norfarizan proposes a vlog entry as an edutainment stimulus to teach English speaking skills. Her research of interest would give a holistic picture on the effective use of Vlog entries to teach speaking and help to point the right direction in implementing technology in the 21^st century classroom.