Nadya Patel

Dr Nadya Patel, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Communication Skills, has twenty years of teaching and workshop facilitation experiences. She leads a faculty community of practice for critical thinking in the disciplines, and teaches interdisciplinary courses on critical thinking and communication skills, and critical-design thinking in design innovation. Previously, she taught engineering leadership, community leadership, critical thinking and writing, and English for academic purposes in NUS. She conducts professional development workshops for faculty on pedagogical and instructional approaches to improve teaching and learning practices. For professionals and executives, she conducts consultancy training on business communication, empathetic leadership communication and effective professional communication.

Previously, Dr Nadya also worked as a research fellow at NIE-NTU. She was involved in two nationwide large-scale research projects including the CORE study on the impact of national initiative TLLM on teaching and learning in schools, and the Singapore Kindergarten Impact Project (SKIP). Her applied research interests include investigating classroom discourse, scaffolding learning, integrating critical thinking skills and multimodality in instruction, conversation analysis and dialogic teaching and learning in the disciplines. She is a general editor for International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS) and currently co-edits a special issue on Critical Thinking and Communicating in the Disciplines.

Over the years, Dr Nadya has received teaching commendation awards from NUS, a graduate research award from NIE-NTU and an innovation commendation PS21 ExCEL (Excellence through Continuous Enterprise and Learning) award for MOE. She is a well-regarded educator, highly-rated workshop facilitator and regular presenter at international educational conferences. Dr Nadya is very much a teacher-researcher at heart and she always seeks the smallest of ways to be a better one every day!

Research Interests

• Classroom Discourse and Dialogic Teaching & Learning
• Use of Conversation Analysis in Applied Research
• Multimodality and Blended Learning
• Critical Thinking Skills in Varied Disciplines
• Organizational and Relational Communication

SIT Appointments

• Assistant Professor
  2021 – Present

Education

• Doctor in Education (Applied Linguistics)
• University College London , United Kingdom
• Master of Education (English Language)
• Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
• Bachelor of Arts (English Language Education)
• Nanyang Technological University , Singapore

Achievements

• CELC-NUS Teaching Excellence Commendation Award 2020
• CELC-NUS Teaching Excellence Commendation Award 2018
• CELC-NUS Teaching Excellence Commendation Award 2014
• Best Graduate Student Research for paper submitted at Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference 2013
• Certificate of Recognition for the ‘Outstanding Innovation Activist’ (MOE) at PS21 ExCEL (Excellence through Continuous Enterprise and Learning) Convention 2009

Professional Memberships

• Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics
  2015 – Present
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  2013 – Present

Corporate Experience

• Editorial Board - International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS), International TESOL Union
  2021 Present
  
• Reviewer for Journal - Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  2017 Present
  
• Reviewer for Journal - Pedagogies: An International Journal (Taylor and Francis) Print ISSN: 1554-480X Online ISSN: 1554-4818
  2016 Present
• Invited Speaker for Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS) 6th CSPs Conference 2021: CSPs – Emerging Stronger from pandemic. Presentation on Sound minute-taking is more important than ever. Singapore.
  2021 – 2021
• Invited Panelist for Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS) 4th CSPs Conference 2019: CSPs in the Smart Nation. Panel Discussion on Good Practices for CSPs. Singapore.
  2019 – 2019
• Invited Speaker for Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS) 4th CSPs Conference 2019: CSPs in the Smart Nation. Presentation on Effective Minutes Writing. Singapore.
  2019 – 2019
• Invited Panelist on Flipped Classroom - Is this the Teaching Pedagogy of the Future? Panel Debate at the Flipped MOOC Asia, 3rd EduCon Asia, Singapore.
  2015 – 2015

Journal Papers

• Patel, N. S. (2021). Establishing Social Presence for an Engaging Online Teaching and Learning Experience. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 3(1), 161-177.
• Patel, N. S. (2021). Development of criticality in thought: a conceptual framework for online student discussion forums. International Journal of TESOL Studies, 3(3), 22-40.
• Patel, N. S. Exploration of talk and gestures for dialogic scaffolding: a case study of reading instruction [Manuscript submitted for publication]
• Patel, N. S. Blending Learning to develop critical thinking and writing in engineering leadership: a Community of Inquiry approach [Manuscript in preparation]
• Patel, N. S. Internalising engineering leadership with criticality in thought: a longitudinal study [Manuscript in preparation]
• Patel, N. S. (Jan 20, 2021). Open Learning: A Reflection on Sharing and Openness Among Educators. Teaching Connections: Advancing Discussions about Teaching. CDTL, NUS.
• Patel, N. S. (Mar 3, 2021). Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning: A Reflection Through a Theoretical Lens. Teaching Connections: Advancing Discussions about Teaching. CDTL, NUS.
• Sen, N. S., & Towndrow, P. A. (2013). Multimodality and metacognitive instruction in developing two reading comprehension strategies. International Journal of Innovation in English Language Teaching and Learning, 2(1), 5-25.
• Sen, N. S. (2013, June). Orchestration of Talk for Meaning Making in Reading Comprehension Instruction. Paper presented at the Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference: Thinking: Time for Rethink? Singapore. (Received Best Graduate Student Research Award)