The Workshop Leader, Mr Sundara Rajan, is a Principal Consultant at Educare, Singapore, and has over 45 years' experience in English Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education in Singapore and the other 9 countries in Southeast Asia, as well as in India, Iran, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan. Mr Rajan was with RELC, Singapore for 22 years and has taught MA, Post-graduate Diploma and Specialist Certificate courses there. He has also managed/conducted a variety of Language Teacher Education courses for teachers from Singapore Schools including the Singapore-Cambridge Certificate Course in English Grammar for Primary and Secondary teachers in Singapore schools. He has also designed and taught a wide variety of courses in oral communication skills.
Mr Rajan has authored/co-authored several books on ELT including Grammar Matters, the best-selling 5-part series, which looks at aspects of the grammar of English that are particularly important to users of English in Singapore and neighbouring countries, and English in Focus, which looks at how grammar operates at the text level, English the Basics – Vocabulary Development, which details different techniques for vocabulary acquisition, Active Comprehension – a series of three books to help Upper Primary learners develop and practice their skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, written expression and thinking – all in the context of a theme or topic.
Mr Rajan’s area of interest include: The Teaching of Grammar at the word, sentence and text levels , ELT Instructional Materials Design, Language Testing and Assessment, Teaching Spoken English Designing Courses in English for Specific Purposes and Oral Communication Skills Development.
