Dr. Swarnamali Seneviratne
Linguist / Teacher / Musician
Most Recent Position in Education: Head of Department - English/LOTE
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All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. - Lord Buddha
In Perth WA
March 2009
LAST UPDATED IN OCTOBER 2010
DR SWARNAMALI SENEVIRATNE HAS COMPLETED TWO
FUNDRAISING EVENTS IN AID OF THE RSPCA WA.
THE FIRST EVENT WAS ON 29 JANUARY 2010
THE SECOND EVENT WAS ON 4 JUNE 2010
Me in Perth - April 2010
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In
Melbourne - March 2010 |
With the Centenary Medal - 2003
Director
Australian
Music & English Academy
Director
Swarnamali Music School - Perth/Melbourne Darwin
Founder/President/Public Officer
Australian Multicultural Arts & Welfare
Association Inc
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About Me
I have worked as a teacher of English and English Literature for several years in High Schools across Western Australia, Melbourne and the NT. It is interesting to note that studying Literature also encourages students to effectively read and understand, sophisticated literature in their own disciplines. As a teacher, it is also exhilarating to see Year 12 students I've taught, rank at the top of the scale of placement exams, Uni Entrance etc...
English Literature is a subject that challenges students to read and interpret a wide range of imaginative works ranging from Shakespeare to John Donne, Margaret Atwood to our own Aussie writer, Tim Winton, Keats, Shelley, Achebe ...... A well balanced Literature course invites students to explore a variety of genres and literary periods and to respond purposefully to the literature they encounter. On a daily basis, as their teacher, I enjoy directing my Lit students to read critically, think clearly, and respond to their texts with perception, and write concisely. By the end of the course, as their Lit teacher, I feel rewarded if I have been able to see that my students have cultivated a rich understanding of literary works and acquired a set of analytical skills they will use throughout their lives.
To teach and guide students along to face competitive public exams involves a great deal of commitment & hard work, yet it is highly rewarding and exciting to feel that I, as their tutor of English Literature, have given them , the key that unlocks the treasure troves of other cultures.
I have also been a lecturer in ESL/ Linguistics/and a teacher of piano and violin music and voice at several institutions in Perth, Melbourne and Darwin. With my linguistics, I have a background in phonetics, phonology and ESL pronunciation and intercultural oral communication. With my music, I have a western classical music background and qualifications as well as a strong interest in social music and community music relating to many countries. I have a research interest in discourse analysis, ESL pronunciation and intercultural oral communication as well as the history of musical instruments.
Family Portrait March 2009 |
It has always given me great pleasure to teach the workings of human language in all its various forms to my students, young and old and make them realise how it leads one to an awareness of the relationship between language, culture and social identity.
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Born to and raised in a musical family, I learnt music from the age of 3 and enjoyed playing the piano and the violin. My passion for music led me to the acquisition of qualifications in music from the Royal College of Music in London and later, from Monash University in Australia.
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I have always enjoyed teaching music to people of all ages and different walks of life. I ran my own Music School in Melbourne for ten years from 1989 and then continued the Swarnamali Music School in Darwin -2001, which was attended by numerous children and adults for weekly singing, piano and keyboard lessons until I left for Western Australia on work in January, 2003.I have continued my Music School in Perth & also opened [ in 2005]the Australian Music & English Academy.
Served as Head of English - Dept Ed- WA
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As a firm believer in multiculturalism and a promoter of multicultural arts, I saw the need for an Association to open the doors to cultural performers within the Darwin Community. As a result, I founded the Australian Multicultural Arts and Welfare Association Inc. (in the Northern Territory) in April 2002, to promote multicultural arts and direct funds of multicultural performances towards charities.
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My devotion to music and my innate passion to serve the community through music, motivated me to organise and direct various charity concerts in Australia to help people/organisations that needed care, financial support and resources in Sri Lanka, Australia and universal Bodies like the Red Cross.
My E- mail
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Worked as Journalist for a leading English Newspaper in Sri Lanka, was a freelance journalist, Information Officer for the USSR Embassy, Publicity Officer for UNESCO/Sri Lanka Cultural Triangle, as well as an English Lecturer at University and in several English Language Learning Centres in Colombo.
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After I got married in Colombo and migrated to Australia, I worked as Secondary teacher of English, French, ESL and Social Science at various schools in Melbourne and as ESL Teacher at Adult Migrant Education Programs in Victoria; served as VOC. ED lecturer at the Dandenong TAFE and as English Language Educator at the RMIT University.
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In 1999, moved to the NT as Music /SOSE teacher on invitation by the NT Ed.Dept. Also worked as English Lecturer at Darwin Uni.
Currently researching for the Doctor of Teaching Linguistics.
| Educational Qualifications |
| Degree in Humanities
Piano/ Theory/ Violin performance
TEFOL .
PG/Dip of Applied Linguistics
PG/Dip of English Literature
PG/Dip. Music
PG/Dip. Education
MA Prelim - Media Studies
Master of English
Master of Applied Linguistics
Currently reading for Doctor of Teaching Linguistics
Doctor of English Literature |
University of Sri Lanka
Royal College of Music, London
Polytechnic of Central London
Melbourne University, Australia
Monash University, Australia
Monash University Australia
Monash University- Australia
La Trobe University - Australia
Monash University- Australia
Northern Territory University Australia
Northern Territory University Australia
RDTN Uni- USA |
My Graduation photos
ONE OF MY NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON SRI LANKAN CRICKET
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