Liza binti Abdullah obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Texas at El Paso, USA, Diploma in Translation from Institut Terjemahan Negara and Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka and Masters in Education, TESL from University of Malaya and PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Kulliyyah of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Upon completion of her first degree, she returned to Malaysia in May 1991 and was offered a job as an English lecturer at Mara Language Academy under MARA Education Foundation where she spent 10 years there. Apart from teaching various international programmes such as American Associate Degree and A-Level, she also did a lot of coordinating tasks including coordinating an intensive programme which involved 17 trainee teachers from New Zealand who opted for practical teaching programme in Malaysia.
In 2001, Liza joined Centre for Languages and Pre-University Academic Development (CELPAD), IIUM as an English lecturer teaching English to Pre-Sessional students, English for Academic Writing and English for Occupational Purposes . She has also been given the responsibilities to hold various portfolios ranging from the posts of Assistant Course Coordinator, Course Coordinator, Coordinator of Teacher Development Unit, and Curriculum Development and Material Management Production Unit, to Deputy Head of Department. Currently, she is holding a post of Head of English Language Division at the Centre.  In addition, she is also one of the external assessors of Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) for English Language Courses. 

• Social Science ~ Social Science ~ Education ~ Language Literacy (Including English (TESOL, ESL, TEFL) and other Languages) - Education(TESL)

08 Oct, 2008

Best Teacher Award - Celpad

University

Article

2020	ESL student teachers beliefs about learning Arabic as a foreign language. International Journal of Asian Social Science, 10 (1) pp. 43-50
2019	Enhancing ESL writing using sentence variety checklist. International Journal of Academic Research in Business & Social Sciences, 9 (13: Special Issue: Revolutionizing Education: Challenges, Innovation, Collaboration) pp. 87-95
2017	An analysis of parents' perception on the importance of homework: a case study in Malaysia. Science International, 29 (2 (March-April : Section B)) pp. 389-393
2017	Validating content of sentence variety checklist for ESL writing. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 6 (3) pp. 119-128
2015	Online Survey of Reading Strategies (OSORS): students’ Online reading in academic context. Malaysian Journal of Distance Education, 17 (2) pp. 67-81
2014	Parents' involvement with children's homework: a case study of academicians in a Malaysian institution of higher learning. Scottish Journal of Arts, Social Sciences and Scientific Studies, 19 (1) pp. 76-87

Conference or Workshop Item

2022	Revisiting students’ required skills in an English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) course at the International Islamic University Malaysia. In: Language for Specific Purposes International Seminar (LSP2021),
2015	OSORS: how do students read online?. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2015	Validating content of sentence variety checklist for ESL writing. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2014	Enhancing ESL writing using sentence variety checklist. In: 3rd International Language Conference (ILC) 2014,
2011	Teachers’ interpretations on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in the inter-cultural English language classroom. In: The 2nd International Language Conference, 2011,

Book Section

2021	Writing anxiety among English language students at an international university in Malaysia. In: Penerbit Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UNISZA), ISBN: 978-967-2231-80-6, pp. 69-83