Vivant Professores!

Apa kabar?  My name's Hening.  I am a language teacher with over 10 years of experience teaching Indonesian and English for foreign speakers.  My career as a teacher has taken me to the United States and Australia on scholarship and grant-based opportunities. 

Now I teach English for Academic Purposes at the University of Indonesia and English for Specific Purposes at a government institution and a private company.  I co-authored a paper presented at the 26th Linguistic Symposium in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Our paper/presentation (whose abstract can be read on the symposium website) is titled Shifting Language Preference in Indonesian Metropolitan Areas and touches on the irony of shifting pride from using a national language to using a foreign language. 

For some family reasons I am moving to the United States in 2012.  That does not mean starting my career all over again.  ESL in the U.S. looks like a promising field to me.  My future plans there include getting another master's degree, which will likely be in Educational Psychology, or continuing to postgraduate level in Second Language Acquisition.  As I have experiences in voluntary teaching and enjoyed it, I have become more interested in doing voluntary works in third world countries, especially in Central Asia, East Africa and South America.

Beside teaching, I love taking nature photographs.  My fondness for photography goes hand in hand with my passions for travelling and travel blogging.  I travelled in Spain, France, Portugal, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore.  But above all, my biggest experience was travelling in North America --Canada, 35 states in the U.S. including Alaska, and Mexico-- during most of which I was backpacking alone and using frugal means of transportation and accomodations, which were a lot of fun because I met backpackers from all over the world and learnt about lives in other countries at the grass-root level.

The purpose of this site is to provide information about myself and hiring me as a teacher.   The CV page lists my assorted work experience related to language studies.   If you wish to read a brief version of my work experience, you can download my resume below. 

I hope you enjoy your visit!

My work experience both teaching and non-teaching jobs, educational background, notable achievements, grant and scholarships, publications, presentations, voluntary works---all in a two-page PDF file. 

Click here to download my resume

For the time being, the portfolio page is under construction but you can download my sample course syllabus here.

The class I teach in this syllabus is 32 hours long (or 16 sessions), which are divided into 8 hours for presentation skills and 22 hours for academic writing.  This is a semi-tailored, in-house training program and I integrate business writing skills with academic writing skills to meet the clients' needs.

Any personal information that I collect from my guestbook will be used solely to contact you, should you wish me to do so. If you choose to share personal information, that information will not be disclosed to any third party. Once it becomes apparent that I will no longer need your contact information, all records will be deleted from my files. 

If you have questions about this privacy policy, or have suggestions on how it may be improved, please email me at contact@heningdian.4t.com. Thank you for visiting my website.