All Stories

  1. Entrepreneurial Orientations towards Language and Education

    Article • February 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  2. Unpacking the complexity of English language teacher-tutor identities in Kazakhstan: a qualitative inquiry

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  3. Abbreviations

    Article • December 2024, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  4. 7 Identity, Investment and Language Learning Strategies: Voices of Undergraduate Students Learning Korean in Kazakhstan

    Article • December 2024, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  5. Identities in Flux: English as Cultural Capital and a Rationale for Investment in a Pakistani University Classroom

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  6. Understanding English medium instruction (EMI) policy from the perspectives of STEM content teachers in Kazakhstan

    Article • TESOL Journal, July 2024, Wiley

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  7. From policy dumping to a participatory framework: re-envisioning the English medium instruction policy in Kazakhstan’s mainstream schools

    Article • Asian Englishes, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  8. Transliterated multilingualism/globalisation: English disguised in non‐Latin linguistic landscapes as new type of world Englishes?

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, April 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  9. Toward an Equitable EMI: Creating Collaborative Relations of Power for English-Disadvantaged Students in Pakistan

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  10. Gaps between policy aspirations and enactment: graduate students’ struggles with academic English amidst a turbulent transition to the EMI environment in Kazakhstani universities

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  11. Navigating the potentials and barriers to EMI in the post-Soviet region: insights from Kazakhstani university students and instructors

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  12. Policy from below: STEM teachers’ response to EMI policy and policy-making in the mainstream schools in Kazakhstan

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  13. From colonial celebration to postcolonial performativity: ‘guilty multilingualism’ and ‘performative agency’ in the English Medium Instruction (EMI) context

    Article • Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  14. Fostering the multilingual agenda in EMI

    Article • June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  15. Understanding challenges, investment, and strategic language use of postgraduate students in an English-medium university in Kazakhstan

    Article • Asian Englishes, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  16. EMI in South Asia

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  17. Growing pains: graduate students grappling with English medium instruction in Kazakhstan

    Article • Asian Englishes, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  18. “Disinvestment” in Learners’ Multilingual Identities: English Learning, Imagined Identities, and Neoliberal Subjecthood in Pakistan

    Article • Journal of Language Identity & Education, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  19. English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    Article • Language Sciences, July 2022, Elsevier

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  20. Emergency remote English language teaching and learning: Voices of primary school students and teachers in Kazakhstan

    Article • Review of Education, June 2022, Wiley

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  21. Language policy and planning in the teaching of native languages in Pakistan

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Professor Dr Stefanie Pillai

  22. Young children’s perceptions of emergency online English learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from Kazakhstan

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  23. Celebratory or guilty multilingualism? English medium instruction challenges, pedagogical choices, and teacher agency in Pakistan

    Article • Teaching in Higher Education, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr. Syed A Manan

  24. Reclaiming the indigenous knowledge(s): English curriculum through ‘Decoloniality’ lens

    Article • Journal of Multicultural Discourses, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  25. Beyond market and language commodification: Contemplating social-market value and social-welfare concerns in language education policy and practice in Pakistan

    Article • Language and Education, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  26. ‘English is like a credit card’: the workings of neoliberal governmentality in English learning in Pakistan

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  27. Ecological planning towards language revitalization: The Torwali minority language in Pakistan

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, April 2021, Wiley

    Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr. Syed A Manan

  28. Transporting and reconstructing hybrid identity through language use in the work domain: focus on Filipinos in Malaysia

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Francisco P Dumanig, Dr. Syed A Manan

  29. Negotiating English-only gatekeepers: teachers’ agency through a public sphere lens

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr. Syed A Manan

  30. Global aspirations versus local resources: planning a sustainable English teaching policy in Pakistan

    Article • Asian Englishes, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr. Syed A Manan

  31. Beyond ‘two-solitudes’ assumption and monolingual idealism: generating spaces for multilingual turn in Pakistan

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  32. Teachers as agents of transformative pedagogy: Critical reflexivity, activism and multilingual spaces through a continua of biliteracy lens

    Article • Multilingua, February 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  33. Deprescriptivising folk theories: critical multilingual language awareness for educators in Pakistan

    Article • Language Learning Journal, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  34. Silencing children’s power of self-expression: an examination of coercive relations of power in English-medium schools in Pakistan

    Article • L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature, December 2018, Gert Rijlaarsdam/SIG Writing

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  35. Opening Ideological and implementational spaces

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr. Syed A Manan

  36. Myth of English teaching and learning: a study of practices in the low-cost schools in Pakistan

    Article • Asian Englishes, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  37. Language shift or maintenance

    Article • Language Problems & Language Planning, July 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  38. Ethnolinguistic dilemma and static maintenance syndrome

    Article • Language Problems & Language Planning, July 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  39. The younger, the better: Idealized versus situated cognitions of educators about age and instruction of English as a second/foreign language in Pakistan

    Article • Language Sciences, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  40. The glocalization of English in the Pakistan linguistic landscape

    Article • World Englishes, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Liaquat Ali Channa, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  41. Foucauldian analysis of Pakistani state-mandated English textbooks

    Article • Cogent Education, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Daniel Gilhooly, Liaquat Ali Channa

  42. Friend or foe? First language (L1) in second/foreign language (L2/FL) instruction & Vygotsky

    Article • Journal of Language and Cultural Education, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Daniel Gilhooly, Dr. Syed A Manan, Liaquat Ali Channa

  43. Language ideology and the linguistic landscape

    Article • Linguistics and the Human Sciences, May 2016, Equinox Publishing

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  44. English Language Teaching in Pakistan

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  45. Perceptions of the Chinese by Malay Respondents

    Article • The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, January 2016, Common Ground Publishing

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  46. The English-medium fever in Pakistan

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  47. Disjunction between language policy and children's sociocultural ecology

    Article • Language and Education, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  48. Culture and critical thinking in clasrooms

    Article • ELK ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, January 2015, ELK Education Consultants, Pvt, LTD.

    Dr. Syed A Manan

  49. A snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan

    Article • Language Policy, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  50. The linguistic landscape of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Dr Francisco P Dumanig

  51. Mapping ecology of literacies in educational setting in Pakistan

    Article • Language and Education, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan