I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, which I will co-edit with Othman Barnawi and Rizwan Ahmad. The special issue theme is ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ and […]
I am excited to announce a new podcast series for our journal, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The series is called ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Conversations’ and features authors who have contributed to the journal, offering deeper insights into their work, and engaging in broader conversations […]
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new article, co-authored with Zhen Li [李蓁], titled “Towards Understanding Heritage Literacy” (see link). This research provides a fresh perspective on the intersection of heritage and linguistics, introducing and defining the concept of heritage literacy through an ethnographic study […]
I had a great time recording a podcast with Tazin Abdullah as part of the Language On The Move series, in collaboration with the New Books Network. You can listen to it here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-semiotics-of-muslimness-in-china Alternatively, you can also find the podcast on the Language On The Move website […]
I am pleased to be co-editing another special issue for the journal ‘Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives’. Below is Call for Papers which is taken from a post from journal blog. Why get critical about critique? In the 21st century, we believe we are living through an epochal […]
I am thrilled to announce my new book emerging from my work in the Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, see here). This book, a Cambridge Element, brings together some important strands in the data collection from the project and I hope that it will […]
Earlier this year, I gave the closing plenary at the annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). My lecture was on ‘Postdigital possibilities in Applied Linguistics’. It presented a valuable opportunity for me to bring together various ideas speculatively, and the response was quite positive. […]
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