Lilisuriani obtained a First Class Hons. degree in B. Ed (Hons) TESOL (Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, Scotland), Post Graduate Diploma in Commerce (Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand) and Master of Science in Educational Psychology (UPM, Serdang, Malaysia).
Lilisuriani has taught language learners from the academic (primary, secondary and tertiary students) and non-academic sectors (government and corporate clients). Having the passion in English for Specific Purposes especially Occupational English, she has had the privilege to be an advisor to ITM (now UITM) Busine
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ss Studies students for Entrepreneurial Research Project (ETR), and was a panel for Students’ Entrepreneurial Research Project Presentations. She has worked with numerous educational institutions and business organizations namely University Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), Open University Malaysia (OUM), Malaysia France Institute (MFI), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), The News Straits Times (NST), Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation (SPHC) and Marriott Hotel. She has also taught proficiency English and Workplace English courses offered by the Institute for Language Advancement, IIUM, (IfLA), Centre for Professional Development (CPD) IIUM and IIUM Centre for Continuing Education (ICCE). She taught English for Occupational Purposes to the students of Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT), Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (IRKHS), Kulliyyah of Engineering (KOE) and Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences (KENMS).She has also worked closely with Soroptimist International (Damansara) and Yayasan Basmi Kemiskinan, Selangor to help educate underprivileged children.
Apart from teaching, Lilisuriani has also been active in curriculum development and teacher training. When she was with CELPAD, she was the Coordinator and Course Developer of English for Academic Purposes (2003-2008), the Coordinator and Course Developer of English for Occupational Purposes (2008-2012). She was the Assistant Coordinator for Teaching Development Unit (TDU) and Peer Observation and Teaching/Learning Evaluation Unit (POTLEN). In 2009, she proposed that the teaching of Corporate Social Responsibility programmes (CSR) to be integrated in the English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) courses offered by CELPAD to KENMS, KOS and KOE. She then designed the contents and trained CELPAD teachers on how to include and assess CSR projects in EOP classes. She developed a new course, Persuasion and Speech Communication and has been teaching it to the students of Kulliyyah of Languages and Management since 2014.
She is currently serving the Kulliyyah of Languages and Management as a lecturer, the Chairman of Quality Unit and the Coordinator of Internship. She obtained her Ph.D in English Language Studies from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
