A place for inspiring minds and empowering expression

We provide a nurturing community of English Literacy support for learners in primary school, secondary school, and university.

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what we do

Since 2016,  Ms Joanna’s goal has been to bring our community an alternative perspective of language and language arts- that they are a part of everybody's everyday life, and they can be beautiful and help us create beauty too.

Learners are coached through a wide range of reading material and taught to tackle different writing tasks, well beyond the scope of school curriculum. We offer online as well as face-to-face group sessions using a fully hybrid learning environment.

English Literacy support is a wonderful help for learners who have diverse needs, including:

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moving mediums

Students moving from a Mandarin or Bahasa Malaysia medium (a government school) to an English medium (an International School)

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CONFIDENCE

Students who answer ‘fill in the blanks’ questions but who lack confidence at coming up with ideas of their own for writing

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UNIVERSITY

Students who intend to go to university but who could use a hand with their reading and writing standards

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EXPRESSION

Well spoken English speakers who struggle to express themselves well in words

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READING HABITS

Those who have not yet established a strong reading habit

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EXPAND HORIZONS

Gifted learners who find the English work at school too easy

Meet your teacher

Meet the passionate teacher behind the beloved studio

Ms Joanna began her work in English Literacy as an English Teacher and by serving a prestigious international school in Petaling Jaya as the Head of Educational Research and Development.

In 2016, she went on to found The Language Arts Studio to provide English Literacy support to students from diverse education backgrounds and with a wide range of needs.

As a practitioner, Ms Joanna believes in mixed abilities groups and loves to stretch students in their work. She is also a published scholar in Australia and has an M.Ed. from Canada
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In her spare time, she digs in her garden and bakes banana bread.

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our approach

We keep our approach simple for learners of all backgrounds

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Practice makes perfect

At the Language Arts Studio, we spend half our time reading and half our time writing, with personal consultations each session.

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expressive writing

Writing is a powerful tool for expression. Creative writing is approached as a form of art - a Language Art. This is where the studio draws our name.

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coached reading

While comprehension is a wonderful place to start at, learners are coached to move beyond simply understanding the explicit meaning in texts.

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ALL ARE WELCOMED

Learners from every education and linguistic background are welcome at the Studio. Support is available for learners in primary school, secondary school, and university.

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crafted content

Content for sessions is created and customised by Ms Joanna.

what we offer

We offer curated sessions both online, face to face and hybrid

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Sessions Breakdown

  • Fully hybrid session*

  • 4 sessions a month
  • Each sessions is 1.5 hour - split into reading and writing
  • Learners work in groups
  • Groups capped at 8 learners

*All sessions are fully hybrid so learners may choose to attend any of their scheduled sessions in person or online.

Find out more information about our fee structure and available schedule options

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Holiday Camps

The Language Arts Studio offers seasonal holiday camps.

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Read our community’s encouraging stories for yourself

The teacher that is coaching my boy Ms Joanna is none other than a loving, dedicated and fully 100% professional teacher both in guiding my boy his his language and also developing his interest in English literacy.  If we have more of such well trained teachers , I'm sure we can see better language ability in student's of today in Malaysia.

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Hi Joanna, ******* wishes to thank you for your guidance and tips! His results for all 3 subjects were band 6 including for English 😊

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Just to share you ** checkpoint result we are proud of him and thanks for your good guidance and teaching !

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Good morning,  ******** checkpoint results, all subjects in 6 scores Thanks, So appreciate to my both daughters too!

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For writing ******* do told me her homework been many Time teacher took it as example for others in year 6!

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Joanna is great with creative writing. She exposes my child to many types of writing including current global issues. My daughter loves classes with Joanna

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