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Faculty of Humanities
Department of English Language Education
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Department of English Language Education

Dr SAH, Pramod

Dr SAH, Pramod

Assistant Professor
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Journal Publications

  • Sah, P. K., & Fang, F. (2024). Decolonizing English-medium instruction in the Global South. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3307

  • Zaidi, R., & Sah, P. K. (2024). Multilingual and multimodal literacy interventions to explore youth’s intersectional identities and racialized experiences: A scoping review. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241228122

  • Sah, P. K. (2023). Emotions as entanglements: Unpacking teachers’ emotion management and policy negotiation in English-medium instruction programmes. The Language Learning Journal, 51(5) https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2023.2243954. 
  • Hultgren, A. K., Upadhaya, A., O’Hagan, L., Wingrove, P., Adamu, A., Greenfield, M., Lombardozzi, L., Sah, P. K., Tsiga, I. A., Umar, A., & Wolfenden, F. (2023). Educación en inglés y la perpetuación de la desigualdad de las niñas inversión parental y aspiraciones de género en Nepal [English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage: Parental investment and gendered aspirations in Nepal]. Cuadernos de Pedagogia, 543, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9021887# 
  • Mendoza, A., Hamman-Ortiz, L., Rajendram, S., Tian, Z., Tai, K., Ho, J., & Sah, P. K. (2023). Sustaining critical approaches to translanguaging in education: A Contextual Framework. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3240
  • Sah, P. K. (2023). Emotion and imagination in English-medium instruction programs: Illuminating its dark side through Nepali students’ narratives. Linguistics and Education, 75, Article 101150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101150
  • Hillman, S., Li, W., Şahan, O., Sahan, K., Liyanage, I., Zhang, T., Yuan, R., Hopkyns, S., Gkonou, C., & Sah, P. K. (2023). Forum on “The emotional landscape of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education”. Linguistics and Education, 75, Article 101181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101181
  • Sah, P. K., & Karki, J. (2023). Elite appropriation of English as a medium of instruction policy and epistemic inequalities in Himalayan schools. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44(1), 20-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1789154
  • Sah, P. K. & Uysal, H. (2022). Unbiased but ideologically unclear: Teacher beliefs about language practices of emergent bilingual students in the U.S. Linguistics and Education, 72, Article 101126.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2022.101126
  • Fang, F., Lawrence, Z., & Sah, P. K. (2022). Translanguaging in language teaching and learning: Current practices and future directions. RELC Journal, 53(2), 305-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882221114478
  • Sah, P. K., & Kubota, R. (2022). Towards critical translanguaging:  A review of literature on English as a medium of instruction in South Asia’s school education. Asian Englishes, 24(2), 132-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2022.2056796 
  • Sah, P. K. (2022). Teacher preparation for primary English education in Nepal: Missing agenda of diversity and inclusion. English Teaching & Learning, 46(2), 373 – 393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-021-00100-7 
  • Phyak, P., Sah, P. K., Ghimire, N. B., Lama, A. (2022). Teacher agency in creating a translingual space in Nepal’s multilingual schools. RELC Journal, 53(2), 431-451. https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882221113950
  • Phyak, P., & Sah, P. K. (2022). Epistemic injustice and neoliberal imaginations in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy. Applied Linguistics Review.  https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2022-0070
  • Sah, P. K. (2022). A research agenda for English-medium instruction: Conversation with scholars at the research fronts. Journal of English-Medium Instruction, 1(1), 124-136. https://doi.org/10.1075/jemi.21022.sah (Invitation from the journal)
  • Sah, P. K., & Li, G. (2022). Translanguaging or unequal languaging? Unfolding the plurilingual discourse of English medium instruction policy in Nepal’s public schools. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(6), 2075-2094. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1849011
  • Sah, P. K. (2022). English medium instruction in South Asia’s multilingual schools: Unpacking the dynamics of ideological orientations, policy/practices, and democratic questions. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 25(2), 742-755. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1718591
  • Kubota, R., Corella, M., Lim, K., Sah, P. K. (2021). “Your English is so good”: Linguistic experiences of racialized students and instructors of a Canadian university. Ethnicities. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968211055808
  • Sah, P. K. (2021). Reproduction of nationalist and neoliberal ideologies in Nepal’s language and literacy policies. Asia Pacific Journal of Education. 41(2), 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2020.1751063.
  • Sah, P. K. (2019). Academic discourse socialization, scaler politics of English, and racialization in study abroad: A critical autoethnography. The Qualitative Report, 24(1), 174-192. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2019.2948
  • Sah, P. K., & Li, G. (2018). English medium instruction (EMI) as linguistic capital in Nepal: Promises and realities. International Multilingual Research Journal, 12(2), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2017.1401448 

Book Chapters

  • Sah, P. K. (Accepted). Language, schooling, and inequalities for ethnic minority children: An ethnography of medium of instruction policy in Nepal’s public school. In R. A. Giri, A. Padwar and M. M. N. Kabir (eds.), Equity, social justice, and English medium of instruction: Case studies from Asia. Springer.
  • Sah, P. K., and Li, G. (in press). School as the agency of social reproduction: Medium of instruction policymaking in Nepali Schools. In Downes, P., Li, G., Praag, L. V., & Lamb, S. (eds.), Routledge handbook on promoting equity in education through inclusive systems and societies. Routledge.
  • Rana, K., Sah, P. K. (2023). Policy development for English medium instruction at a Nepali University: Unpacking hidden motivations and agendas. In P. K. Sah & F. Fang (eds.), Policies, politics, and ideologies of English-medium instruction in Asian universities: Unsettling critical edges (pp. 48-62). Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003173120-5
  • Sah, P. K. (2022). English medium instruction as neoliberalism endowment in Nepal’s higher education: Policy-shaping practices. In J. McKinley & N. Galloway (eds.), English-medium instruction practices in higher education: International perspectives (pp. 71-83). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167889.ch-006 
  • Sah, P. K. (2022). English as a medium of instruction, social stratification, and symbolic violence in Nepali schools: Untold stories of Madhesi children. In L. Adinolfi, U. Bhattacharya, & P. Phyak (eds.), Multilingual education in South Asia: At the intersection between policy and practice (pp. 50-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158660-4
  • Sah, P. K., & Phyak, P. (2021). Critical literacies in South Asia. In J. Z. Pandya, R. A. Mora, J. H. Alford, N. A. Golden, & R. S. de Roock (eds.), The handbook of critical literacies (pp. 289-296). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003023425-33
  • Li, G., & Sah, P. K. (2020). Critical pedagogy for preservice teacher education in the US: An agenda for a plurilingual reality of superdiversity. In S. Steinberg, & B. Down (eds.), The Sage handbook of critical pedagogies (pp. 884-898). Sage Publications. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526486455.n82
  • Li, G., & Sah, P. K. (2019). Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: Promises, contradictions, and possibilities. In S. J. Gold & S. J. Nawyn (2nd ed.), The Routledge international handbook of migration studies (pp. 325-338). Rutledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315458298
  • Upadhaya, A., & Sah, P. K. (2019). Education, English language, and girls’ development: Exploring gender-responsive policies and practices in Nepal. In S. Douglas, P. Kennett, R. Ingram, P. Dexter & Y. Hutchinson (eds.), Creating an inclusive school environment. London: British Council (pp. 105- 114). British Council.   

Scholarly Books