TENEDERO, Pia Patricia P.

TENEDERO, Pia Patricia P.

Pia Patricia P. Tenedero is assistant professor at the Department of English of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and associate researcher at the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Manila, the Philippines. She is honorary post-doctoral graduate of the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where she completed her PhD in Linguistics supported by an international research scholarship grant from the Australian Government and Macquarie University. She convenes units for graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the English Language Studies program of UST. She is also part of the editorial board of the Asian Journal of English Language Studies. Her teaching and research are mainly in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, intercultural communication, English language use and learning in globalized and professional contexts. Her academic advocacy includes accessible research communication, such as through research blogging. Besides publishing in indexed journals, she also writes about her research in the international, peer-reviewed sociolinguistic research blog www.languageonthemove.com

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Academic Qualifications

Research Highlights

Research Interests

Academic Qualifications

Degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics), Macquarie University – Sydney, Australia, 2021
  • Master of Arts in Teaching (Highest distinction), De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines, 2007
  • Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (Cum laude), Ateneo de Manila University – Quezon City, Philippines, 2002
  • Teacher Certificate Program, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines, 2004

Research Highlights

  • Pia published a monograph about the communication practices and ideologies of Filipino globalized accountants titled “Communication that counts: Language practice and ideology in globalized accounting.” This book, which is based on her PhD dissertation, is the first in the Language at Work series of the Multilingual Matters (Bristol, UK) that explores the language practices and ideologies in the highly number-centric and increasingly globalized field of accounting.  
  • She convened an English for Specific Purposes elective for accounting majors of the University of Santo Tomas called Communicating for Globalized Accounting. This elective, which was offered beginning AY2022-2023, is a curricular innovation informed by her PhD work.
  • She also converted her PhD project into a webinar on corporate writing for accountants, which has been deployed as a unit for the Continuing Professional Development of Certified Public Accountants in the Philippines. 
  • She advocates making research communication more accessible to a wider audience by blogging about her research in the peer-reviewed, international, sociolinguistics research blog www.languageonthemove.com
  • She is the first member-delegate representing a Philippine university (UST) in the Next Generation Literacies Network, an international research network from the tripartite partnership of Macquarie University (Australia), Fudan University (China), and Hamburg University (Germany). 
  • She has served as the Research Interest Group Lead for Language Studies in the UST Research Center for Social Sciences and Education since 2022.

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics, language practices and ideologies, and language learning in globalized contexts, such as accounting, nursing, higher education, missionary work
  • Exploring Global South perspectives to provide balance to Global North-dominated scholarship
  • Discourse analysis 

Courses Handled

Major Recognitions

Professional Activities

Courses Handled

  • Communicating for Globalized Accounting
  • Discourse analysis
  • English for Specific Purposes
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Intercultural Rhetoric 
  • Introduction to English Language Studies
  • Issues and Perspectives in English across Professions
  • Purposive Communication

Major Recognitions

  • Honorary Postdoctoral Associate
    Awarded on 24 Jun 2021 by the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • Runner-up and People’s Choice – Three Minute Thesis Competition
    Awarded on 11 Aug 2020 by Macquarie University (Faculty of Medicine,Health and Human Sciences, Department of Linguistics), Sydney, Australia
  • Awardee – Postgraduate Research Fund Grant
    Awarded on 20 Nov 2019 by Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • Awardee – International Research Training Program Scholarship
    Awarded on 21 Jul 2017 by Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • International Publication Awardee
    Awarded on 23 Mar 2016 by the University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines

Professional Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of English Language Studies (2023)
  • Member, Australian Linguistic Society (2020 onwards)
  • Member, Next Generation Literacies Network (2021-onwards)
  • Member, Linguistic Society of the Philippines (2009-present)
  • Associate Member, National Research Council of the Philippines (2016-present)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications