Publications

2026

2025

• Englishisation of Sindhi: Mapping the impact of English on Sindhi in the linguistic landscape of Sindh

• English Medium Instruction (EMI) Policy in the Single National Curriculum (SNC): How Do Pakistani Government Primary Teachers Appropriate It in Balochistan? 

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

• Structure and agency entanglment: Contextualizing the macro-micro dialectic in the multilingual language education policy in Balochistan, Pakistan

2024

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

• Understanding Pakistani University Students’ Motivations for Learning Chinese in Pakistan:: A Bourdieusian Perspective

2023

• Fostering the multilingual agenda in EMI

2022

• Lived narratives: Female investment and identity negotiation in learning English in rural Pakistan

• Translanguaging in higher education: exploring interactional spaces for meaning-making in the multilingual universities of Pakistan

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

• Dialectal preferences: a mixed methods study of ESL students' attitudes towards Englishes in Pakistan

2021

• Ecological planning towards language revitalization: The Torwali minority language in Pakistan

2020

• The Monolingual Bias: A Critique of Idealization and Essentialization in ELT in Pakistan

• Negotiating English-only gatekeepers: teachers' agency through a public sphere lens

• Language Shift and Ethnic Identity

• Global aspirations versus local resources: Planning a sustainable English teaching Policy in Pakistan

• Agentive Apprenticeship of Observation and English Teacher Identity: A Pakistani Case of Learning to Teach English

2019

• Top-Down English Policy and Bottom-Up Teacher Take: An Interview-Based Insight from the Balochistan Province of Pakistan

2018

• Opening Ideological and implementational spaces for multilingual/plurilingual policies and practices in education: a snapshot of scholarly activism in Pakistan

• Labovian narrative analysis of a Pakistani schoolteacher's experience of teaching English

• Teaching English as a compulsory subject in the government schools in Balochistan: A bottom up analysis

2017

• The glocalization of English in the Pakistan linguistic landscape

• Co-creating the Dialogic: How a Participatory Action Research Project Promoted Second Language Acquisition of Karen Youth

• English in Pakistani public education: Past, present, and future

• "All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School"

• Significance of critical applied linguistics for applied linguists and English teaching professionals in Pakistan

• Developing Pakistani university students' English proficiency: A five-point agenda for the Pakistani language policymakers

• Letter writing as a reflective practice: understanding the shuffling, shifting, and shaping of a researcher identity

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

• Teaching English or producing docility? Foucauldian analysis of Pakistani state-mandated English textbooks

• Pakistani government primary school teachers and the English textbooks of Grades 1–5: A mixed methods teachers’-led evaluation

2016

• Narrative Inquiry: A Research Tradition in Qualitative Research

• Foreign language anxiety in undergraduates of a Sindh university: A qualitative case study

• "Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?"

• English in the Language Policy and Planning of Pakistan

2015

• Content-Based Instruction: A Novel Second/Foreign Language Curricular Approach

2014

• A Critical Debate in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Theory