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Dr. Adelina Asmawi is currently Head of Department of Language and Literacy Education. She was the Deputy Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Quality Manager at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya from Aug 2014 - Aug 2017. She holds a PhD in Professional Development of Teachers, TESOL, and Instructional Technology from Melbourne Graduate School of Education (ranked second in the world by subject), University of Melbourne, Australia. She has supervised 4 PhD students to completion. 

As Deputy Dean, Dr Adelina assisted and worked closely with the Dean and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Internationalization) in the development, implementation and monitoring of progress of the faculty’s strategic plan particularly in relation to Undergraduate Studies. She also took responsibility for the teaching and learning portfolio for the undergraduate programmes.

She oversaw local and international undergraduate student matters and had, with her team, developed a comprehensive student advisory system for the faculty. To date, her team had completed the curriculum review of the B Ed TESL, B Early Childhood, B Counseling and B Ed (Educational Management) programmes, with B Early Choldhood Education being awarded AUN QA status in 2017. She takes great effort in pushing undergraduates to compete locally and internationally, and strive for excellence. In 2015, the faculty’s Undergraduate students won the POSCO Asia Fellowships 2015 and 2016  under the POSCO TJ PARK FOUNDATION and the Temasek Foundation Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking Programme Scholarship (TF LEaRN) @ Nanyang Technological University.

As Quality Manager, Dr Adelina coordinated activities like Self Audits and Internal Audits that are required to direct and control the faculty with regard to quality. She championed and supported improvement initiatives and ensured that process owners maintain their part of the quality management system at the faculty level.

As a researcher, Dr. Adelina actively publishes in the areas of higher education, instructional technology, creative thinking, TESOL and professional development. She enjoys exploring innovations in education – she has worked on a collaborative project with University of Exeter and Chulalongkorn University on creative thinking and creative teaching for higher education. She has developed an e-graphic book for research in education in 2018. She is currently working on 2 research projects - developing English language resources for select urban poor students and volunteers and an interdisciplinary one with Dentistry and Computer Science Faculties on an App to prevent smoking initiation among Malaysian children.

Her works are published in international and Malaysian journals including the International Journal of Learning, Asian Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication Technology, the Online Journal of Distance Education and E-learning, the Modern Language Journal, and the Malaysian Online Journal of Education Technology. Her most recent books are ‘The Art of Teaching English’ (2014), ‘Understanding Play in Children’s World’ (2014), 'The Art of Reflective Thinking' (2016), The Art of Creative Research (2017). and Thesis Easy (2018) (FREE at e-sentral.com or umpress.com.my). She is Chief Editor of the book, 'Language Education for a World on the Move' (2019). 

Dr Adelina picked up a silver and two bronze medals from the Research and Innovation Expo for her work on ‘Literacy Activities of Malaysian School Students’ and 'Interactive Whiteboard for Teaching and Learning'. She collected the Best Research Paper Award from Singaporean Global Science and Technology Forum in 2012. She positioned third at the Malaysian National Educational Blogging Competition of 2012 and received the University of Malaya Excellence in Services Award in 2015. In the same year, she co-wrote a paper which bagged the Best Paper Award defeating 50 over papers at the International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Bangkok. In 2017, her team's invention: T.O.P Module won a Silver Award by the MBOT, MHE and UMP and her invention: E-Thesis for Dummies won a Bronze Award at H-Inovasi 2017 Competition. She was awarded Best in Teaching at the 2017 University of Malaya Excellence Award and was double awarded: the GOLD Award and Special Award for Student Support for her research and product: Thesis Easy at the Liter Research Conference 2018. Dr Adelina represented University of Malaya for the prestigious 2018 National Academic Award, AAN12 (Teaching Category). She also received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Education (ICE) in Nov 2018 and won 2nd place for her PEARL project at Community Engagement Academia Conference (PAKUM 2018) in Dec 2018. In April 2019, she won 2 Platinum medals at the Innovation and Design Expo, UM for her PEARL framework (English language acquisition of urban poor children) and REACH framework (professional development of teachers through community engagement).

Dr Adelina is involved in various community outreach programmes. In 2013 and 2014, she co-created the Developmental Instructional Supervision Module and co-trained teachers under the Ministry of Education’s Knowledge Transfer Programme. She is now expanding her community outreach projects with various NGOs (Yayasan ASAS and Melewar Learning Resources, Direct English). She also has her heart set on attending to the literacy of homeless children of Kuala Lumpur for 2019.

She is Editor of ‘Issues in Education Journal’ and ‘Global Science and Technology Forum Journal’. She was judge for various storytelling, debate, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) and public speaking competitions at school and varsity levels. A passionate educator, she shares her thoughts and ideas as an invited speaker in various settings, the latest being Spore's APAIE (March 2018), Xuchang University, China (Spring, 2018), APSS (Nov 2018), and soon at TEDXUniversityofMalaya 2019.

Dr. Adelina is UM karaoke champ 2018. A runner, she competes in crosscountry/charity runs when time permits and as an avid Rescue scuba diver, is regularly submerged in Underwater Awareness projects. She also dedicates some of her time to organize annual trips for school children to selected orphanages.

Researcher ID: B-8137-2010