DR. JUWAIRIAH BINTI OSMAN

Juwairiah Osman merupakan pensyarah kanan dan ahli akademik dalam bidang linguistik terapan, pembelajaran bahasa, bahasa Melayu untuk penutur antarabangsa, sosiolinguistik dan linguistik am. Pada 2021, beliau menyertai Akademi Pengajian Melayu sebagai felo SLAB dengan iltizam dan semangat untuk menjadi ahli akademik yang dikenali ilmunya. Maka, pengajian doktoret dijalankan dengan begitu mendalam. Pernah mengajar di salah sebuah universiti awam sebagai guru bahasa Melayu kepada penutur asing dan tenaga pengajar kursus kemahiran insaniah. Juga pernah mengajar warga asing profesional yang ingin mempelajari komunikasi bahasa Melayu. Sebelumnya, pernah menjadi penyelidik siswazah atau pembantu pensyarah di UPM serta mengajar di sekolah menengah swasta. Sehubungan itu, telah memenangi pelbagai pertandingan inovasi dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran sehingga pernah dua kali dinobatkan sebagai tempat kedua terbaik dalam pertandingan inovasi, iaitu kategori bukan teknikal dan kategori inovasi secara individu anjuran institusi pengajian tinggi di Pahang dan Kuala Lumpur. Kini, meneruskan sumbangan sebagai juri pertandingan inovasi peringkat antarabangsa dan kebangsaan. Kini, meneruskan pemantapan dalam pengajaran di peirngkat ijazah sarjana muda, dan mula mengajar calon sarjana. Seterusnya, meneruskan penyelidikan dan penerbitan bagi pengkhususan linguistik. Juwairiah sangat memperhalusi penggunaan bahasa dan unsur linguistik yang berlaku di persekitaran dan masyarakat sekeliling agar masyarakat sentiasa sedar bahawa setiap ayat dan frasa pasti membuahkan hasil dalam bentuk nilai kemanusiaan dan material. Telah menyampaikan puluhan kertas kerja di pelbagai persidangan dalam dan luar negara pada peringkat kebangsaan dan antarabangsa secara bersemuka dan dalam talian sepanjang berkecimpung dalam dunia akademik lebih daripada sepuluh tahun. Merupakan Ahli Majlis Persatuan Linguistik Malaysia.  Juga memperoleh Sijil Profesional, iaitu Diploma Penterjemah Profesional dari Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia. 

Juwairiah Osman is a senior lecturer and an academic in the fields of applied linguistics, language learning, Malay language for international speakers, sociolinguistics, and general linguistics. In 2021, she joined the Academy of Malay Studies as a SLAB fellow with determination and enthusiasm to become an academic recognized for her expertise. Consequently, she pursued her doctoral studies with great depth and dedication. She has previously taught at a public university as a Malay language teacher for foreign speakers and as an instructor for soft skills courses. She has also taught professional foreign nationals who wished to learn Malay communication. Prior to that, she served as a graduate researcher or teaching assistant at UPM and also taught at a private secondary school. In relation to her contributions, she has won various innovation competitions in teaching and learning, including being awarded second place twice in innovation competitions, namely in the non-technical category and the individual innovation category organized by higher education institutions in Pahang and Kuala Lumpur. Currently, she continues to contribute as a judge in innovation competitions at both international and national levels. At present, she continues to strengthen her teaching at the undergraduate level and has begun teaching master’s candidates. She also continues her research and publications in the field of linguistics. Juwairiah pays close attention to language use and linguistic elements that occur in the surrounding environment and society so that the community remains aware that every sentence and phrase can produce outcomes in the form of humanitarian and material values. Throughout her more than ten years of involvement in academia, she has presented dozens of papers at various conferences both locally and internationally at national and international levels, conducted either face-to-face or online. She is a Council Member of the Malaysian Linguistics Association. She also holds a Professional Certificate, namely the Diploma in Professional Translation from the Malaysian Translators Association.