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Chitra Sabapathy

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6516 3866
Email: elccs@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-12 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Chitra SABAPATHY is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. She has taught on both undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and developed courses related to Business, Technical and Professional communication skills. She has a longstanding interest in oral communication skills and is a strong proponent of collaborative, interactive, inclusive teaching, learning, and assessment methods. Her research interests are linked to inclusive higher education teaching and learning, widening participation, policy and practice.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • CS2101 Effective Communication for Computing Professionals
  • IS3103 Information Systems Leadership and Communication (leadership communication component)
  • MDG5214 Academic Presentation (Medical School)
  • CS2101 Effective Communication for Computing Professionals

Awards & Recognition

  • CELC Teaching Excellence Award 2023/2024
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2022
  • CELC Teaching Excellence Award 2021/22
  • CELC Teaching Excellence Award 2020/21
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2017/2018
  • CELC, Commendation for Teaching Excellence (Professional Communication), 2017/2018
  • CELC, Commendation for Teaching Excellence (Professional Communication), 2015/2016

Grant Projects

  • Received NUS 'Teaching Enhancement Grant'. Project title: 'Technology-supported workplace simulation and the flipped classroom: An integrated and intensive approach to prepare university students for the working world' (with co-PI Ms Norhayati Ismail)

Selected Publications (since 2019)

Sabapathy, C. (2022). Teaching in a Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study of Higher Education Professional Communication Academics’ Lifeworlds in Response to Pandemic Measures' Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Vol 10, 1, 56-68.

Sabapathy, C. (2021). Validating Valedictorian Speeches: Opportunities and Challenges in a Pandemic, CDTL blog post in https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2021/09/29/validating-valedictorian-speeches/

Selected Invited Presentations (since 2019)

Sabapathy,C. (2023). Mid-semester course evaluations as formative feedback tools on teaching-learning and assessment: practices, challenges and implications. International Assessment in Higher Education, United Kingdom.

Sabapathy, C. (2022). Teaching in a Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study of Higher Education Professional Communication Academics’ Lifeworlds in Response to Pandemic Measures. 6th CELC Symposium. Singapore.

Sabapathy. C & Oh, L.B. (2019).Assessing leadership outcomes of embedding leadership communication skills in an Information Systems leadership course. Paper presented at Higher Education Conference, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore.

Sabapathy. C. (2019). The art and science of leadership communication. Presentation at Learning on NUS Campus, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore.
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