Foreword

Authors

  • Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam University of the Western Cape

Abstract

Welcome to the April 2023 issue of the Journal of English as an International Language! This issue signposts a continuity/ continuum of conceptualizations, innovative intellectual exercises and applications that are consistent with EILJ’s declared mission of promoting locally appropriate, culturally sensitive and socially aligned pedagogies and practices in EIL. The voice and agency of our contributing authors assume particular substance and prominence in this issue in that it chimes in with EILJ’s attempts to democratize and dehegemonize the use of English across the cultures of Asia and farther afield in the world.

Author Biography

Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam, University of the Western Cape

Dr. Sivakumar SIVASUBRAMANIAM is currently Extraordinary Professor and past Head of Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa (RSA). He is a rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.

He has served the Editorial Board of the Journal of English as an International Language (EILJ) as Chief Editor since 2011 and he is committed to promoting locally relevant practices and pedagogies aimed at democratizing and dehegemonizing the teaching of English and researching into it across cultures and continents. He has been a foreign language/ second language educator for over thirty-eight years now and has taught English in India, Ethiopia, Thailand, Bahrain, Armenia, and U.A.E prior to relocating to South Africa. He has presented papers, conducted workshops and delivered plenaries at prestigious conference forums abroad. His research interests include response-centred reading/ writing pedagogies, literature-based language pedagogies, constructivism in EIL, second language advocacy, narratives in language education and text-based approaches to academic and social literacy practices.  Email contact: ssivasubramnaim@uwc.ac.za and sivakumar49@yahoo.com

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Published

2023-04-30

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2023)

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