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Alia Amir
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Research Associate, Freelance
Stockholm, London
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Alia Amir is a Research Associate at SOAS University of London. Before joining SOAS this year, she has been teaching English linguistics, sociolinguistics, and training English language teachers since 2009 in Sweden including Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Linkoping University to name a few. She has also been on short visits to three Turkish Universities namely: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Cukurova University and Hacettepe University as well as to INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales) in Paris through Erasmus for mobility funding. She has also been an English language teacher trainer in Pakistan. Having been raised in a Pakistani-Kashmiri household, and growing up in Jeddah for a number of formative years where several languages were used in parallel at one communicative setting, growing up - she was not much aware of language boundaries, or the notion of keeping languages separate in her childhood, until, as an adult, she started noticing and thinking about how language policies differ in all multilingual polities at the macro and micro-levels, how language as a tool is used and can be used for inclusion and exclusion, and how histories of a society are intertwined in their language use over time. While doing research on the English language policy of the British Indian period (Amir, 2008), languages of the Mughal dynasty (Amir, 2020), present-day Pakistan, and language policing in the interactional micro-level policy in interaction (Amir, 2013) in Sweden and Turkey, she grasped the ecology and nature of fluidity of all living languages in contact. She has lived in Jeddah, Peshawar, Karachi, Izmir, Ankara, Linkoping, and Stockholm. Switching between languages in her daily life as a norm, her research informs policymakers and stakeholders about segmented hierarchical language practices which stem from monolingual, colonial ideologies of restricting the use of other languages in the second/ foreign language classroom context.
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States