Pramod K. Sah is an Assistant Professor of English Language Education at The Education University of Hong Kong, who was recognized among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Language and Linguistics in 2024. As a South Asian critical applied linguist, Dr Sah examines social justice issues in bi/multilingual and second language education and advocates for anti-colonial and anti-racist language policy, pedagogy, and research. For example, guided by critical theories fundamentally motivated by Pierre Bourdieu’s social theories of linguistic capital and social reproduction, his initial research and scholarship focused on the issues of language planning and policy within the context of English-medium instruction and bi/multilingual education. Expanding on this, his more recent research projects look at the intersection of immigration, race/ism, and ESL youths; for example, developing critical race and multilingual language awareness among ESL youth through critically engaged workshops. Related to this is another area of research, which he calls ‘emotional entanglements’ that refers to how the felt experiences of bi/multilingual teachers and students are shaped by their linguistic and racial/ethnic identities, agency, and ideologies. At the core of all his research and scholarship lies the goal of conceptualizing and advocating anti-racist and anti-colonial alternatives for bi/multilingual education policies, pedagogies, and research. 

• English-Medium Education/Instruction
• Language Planning and Policy
• Antiracism and Anticolonialism in English Language Education
• Critical Multilingualism/Translanguaging
• Affect and Emotions in Language Education
• Language Ideologies 
• Multilingual and Multimodal Literacy Engagement
• Teacher Education

TESOL

Educational Linguistics

Language Planning and Policy 

Critical Issues in English Language Education 

Anti-Racism and Decoloniality in English Language Education 

Multilingual Education 

Language, Society, and Power

Research Methodology (Ethnography/Critical Policy Analysis)