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Beatriz
Lorente Centre for English Language Communication, |
About Beatriz
Beatriz P. LORENTE is Lecturer in the
University Town Writing Programme at the Centre for English Language
Communication, National University of Singapore. She completed her PhD at the
National University of Singapore in 2006 and was awarded the inaugural Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for best PhD thesis in the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Her main research interests are in language and
globalization, language and migration, language policy and academic writing.
She is preparing a book manuscript (for Multilingual Matters) that deals with
the intersections of language, labour migration and domestic work, as seen in
the case of Filipino domestic workers in Singapore. She is also currently
involved as a secondary mentor in a Temasek
Foundation-funded academic writing project for teacher trainers from Laos.