Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arshad Abd. Samad
UPM

Associate Professor Dr. Arshad Abd. Samad holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University and a BSc and MA in Secondary English Education and TESL respectively from Indiana University. Currently he is attached with the Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), where he teaches courses in the TESL programme. He has supervised more than 30 doctoral and master theses in his field of specialization and has also served as an internal and external examiner for more than 30 postgraduate student theses. At present, he is the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Language Competence (CALC) at UPM after having served as Department Head and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Educational Studies at the university. He has also contributed to the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) in various capacities, most notably as an appointed member of the English Language Standards and Quality Council from 2012 to 2016. His research interests broadly focus on education at the secondary and tertiary levels with an emphasis on language education, especially in the areas of assessment, learner agency and grammar instruction.  He has published numerous articles in journals and has two major publications: Essentials of Language Testing for Malaysian Teachers, 2^nd Edition (to be published) and Essentials of English Grammar for Malaysian ESL Teachers (2016), both published by UPM Press.