Ms Shinee is an EAL teacher in senior school, Stonyhurst International School Penang. She’s from Penang, Malaysia. She studied a Bachelor of Education (HONS) majoring in English Language and Literature in Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Penang which is when she fell in love with teaching English and she has been doing it ever since. Because of several years of working experience in language centres, she was keen to pursue her higher studies.
With determination and being ambitious, she successfully graduated with a Masters Degree Specialisation in English Language Teaching from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). She’s thrilled to say that this is her twelveth year of teaching EAL. Being an EAL teacher, she has a great interest in supporting pupils in need, how they communicate and how they learn English as their additional language. For the past few years, she has taught EAL for young learners up to working adults from various countries mainly from Korea, Japan, China and Saudi in several language centres, such as ELS Language Centre, English Language Enrichment Centre (ELEC) and Cambridge English for Life (CEFL). Besides, she was a vice principal and preschool teacher for three years in Sarjana Jaya Kindergarten, Penang. Her favourite thing about teaching kindergarten is the children!Before joining Stonyhurst International School Penang, she was teaching (ESL) to secondary pupils in Universal Hua Xia International School, Penang. She is a cheerful and kind person with an education background who has a heart for pupils and a passion for teaching and seeing them grow into wholesome, well-rounded, and skilled individuals. She loves reading, everything and anything, but also a lot of fantasy. She loves travelling, and her favourite part about travelling is learning about different cultures and trying new cuisines. |