2014 - PhD, Graduate School in Language and Cuture in Europe, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden
2025 - Higher Education Pedagogy for PhD Supervisors, Linköping University, Sweden
2018 - Teaching and Learning for University Teachers, Stockholm University, Sweden
2011 - Teaching In Higher Education, step 2, Design, Evaluation, and Organization of Learning, Linköping University, Sweden
Single Subject Courses Taken
2011- The Long Haul: Analyzing Longitudinal Usage-Based Language Learning Data, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
2009 - Learning, Design and Transformation in Embodied Spatial and Mobility Practices, Aalborg University, Denmark
2009 - Multimodality in Human Interaction: Qualitative Methods for Analyzing Audio and Video Recordings 2.0, Roskilde University, Denmark
2009 - Language Policy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Pranjol, M. Z. I., & Amir, A. (2025). Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 10, p. 1550711).
Frontiers Media SA.
Amir, A. (2025). Review of Bonacina-Pugh (2024): Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research.
Amir, A. (2024). Review of the anti-racism linguist: A book of readings ed. by Patricia Friedrich. Language, 100(4), 825-829.
Amir, A. (2024). Book review of Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics.
Amir, A. & Huq, R. (2024). The Dialectic of Academic Practices: A Reflection by Self to Bridge the Praxes. A special issue of the Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research
Jawhar, S. S., Amir, A., Huq, R.- ul, & Stewart, S. (2024). Collaborative Problem Solving and Literacy Practices: A Conversation-Analytic Case Study of Children’s Online Pre-gaming Interaction. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 7(1).
Yatağanbaba, E. Amir, A. & Yıldırım, R. (2022). Hush, in English! In Turkish! No! Policing in bilingual classroom talks: the case of Turkish EFL young learners. Turkish Journal of Education 11 (3), 183-200
Atar, C., & Amir, A. (2020, 10–13 December). A sociolinguistic analysis of English textbooks in Sweden (p. 397- 409). 12th ICOSRESSE International Conference of Strategic Research on Scientific Studies and Education held between 10-13 December 2020. Webinar. ISBN: 978-625-7148-10-8
Amir, A. (2020, 10-13 December). An introduction to Conversation Analysis for Pakistani languages. 12th ICOSRESSE International Conference of Strategic Research on Scientific Studies and Education held between 10-13 December 2020. Webinar.
Amir, A. (2015) Examining English-only in the EFL classroom of a Swedish school: A conversation analytic perspective. In: Seedhouse, P. & Jenks, C (eds.): International Perspectives on ELT Classroom Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan.
Huq, R. & Amir, A. (2015). ''When the Tokens Talk: IRF and the Position of Acknowledgement Tokens in a Teacher-Student Talk-in-Interaction". Novitas-ROYAL 9, (1), 60-76
Amir, A. & Musk, N. (2013). Language policing: micro-level language policy-in-process in the foreign language classroom. Classroom Discourse 4 (2), 151-167
Amir, A. (2013). Self-policing in the English as a foreign language classroom. Novitas-ROYAL 7, (2) 84-105
Amir, A. & Musk, N. (2014). “Pupils' language policy: Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom.” Journal of Applied Language Studies 8 (2), 93-113
Amir, A. & Musk, N. (2013). “Language policing: micro-level language policy-in-process in the foreign language classroom.” Classroom Discourse 4 (2), 151-167
Amir, A. (2013). “Self-policing in the English as a foreign language classroom.” Novitas-ROYAL 7, (2) 84- 105
Amir, A. (2013) Doing Language Policy: A Micro-Interactional Study of Policy Practices in English as a Foreign Language Classes. Studies in Language and Culture No 23. Linköping: Linköpings universitet.
Amir, A. (2012, December 13). Review of "Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts: Current Challenges, Future Directions" by Ahmed, A; Cane, G, and H, Mehnaz. Linguist List.
Conferences and presentations
Nov 2024
Paper presentation at the launch of SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 22 (2024)
Plenary talk at the 6th International Conference on Language, Education, and Social Sciences (ICLESS 6)
Sep 2024
Invited talk at Sussex university
Aug 2024
Decolonisation? What decolonisation?: A case Study of Pakistan’s Language Policy and Practices, AT AILA 2024.
English-only policy and medium of classroom interaction: exploring pedagogic practices of Bangladesh and Sweden, AT AILA 2024.
March 2024
Tea, Britain, and the English Language: a case study of Pakistan at Tea in and after Empire Workshop Series, 2023-2024
Nov 2023
Language Policing the Named Languages: Which English? Whose English? Towards Decolonising (English) Teacher Development: A Raciolinguistic Toolkit taking stock of Pakistani and Swedish context AT Teacher Development Webinars.
Turn-taking Patterns and Intercultural Communication, a lightning talk At TESOL Intercultural Communication Interest Section
Sep 2023
A sociolinguistic take on the future of language teaching and learning with assumed boundaries: Taking stock of Code Switching and Translanguaging research, a plenary talk at Free Linguistics Conference (FLC), Istanbul.
June 2023
Tracing colonial discourses in Pakistani educational and language policy At Language Policy Forum (BAAL) 2023
March 2023
Representing Kashmir: Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia at SOAS, University of London.
Feb 2023
Communication for leaders: How to maximize your influence and impact? At King Saud bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences.
Sep 2022
Academic Writing for University Students for Muslim students at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden).
The elephant in the room: What to do with pupils’ first languages in English language classrooms? At Mid-Sweden University.
South Asia in Sweden: A linguistic landscape-based analysis of practised language policy of diaspora in the citiscape of Stockholm, at BAAL 2022.
Formulating the policing discourse: The case of Urdu and an analysis of language policing practices in contemporary India, with Rizwan-ul Huq at BAAL 2022.
July 2022
Appraising Implications of Medium of Classroom Interaction in Policy-governed Pedagogies: Examples from Sweden and Bangladesh, at Binaries, Boundaries, Beyond: Probing the Practices of Classroom Interaction in Symposium SS24, 2022
March 2021
Invited talk at Sakarya University entitled ‘Memory, Repetition and Lesson Plans for Young Learners»
Dec 2020
An introduction to Conversation Analysis for Pakistani languages. 12th ICOSRESSE International Conference of Strategic Research on Scientific Studies and Education held between 10-13 December 2020. Webinar.
Communicating information about COVID-19 in different languages in the globalized world: A case study of Sweden at Communication in Multicultural Society Conference 2020 (CMSC 2020).
Dec 2019
“A case study of a multilingual postgraduate Swedish woman with Turkish heritage” at Fifth International Symposium on the Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages: Language and Identity (ITML5). Stockholm University.
April 2019
“English Language in Pakistan, Turkey & Sweden at 5th International Conference on Second Language Studies (ICSLS-2019), Istanbul. Türkiye.
June 2014
Presentation of a paper entitled "Examining the pedagogical effects of doing language policy in an English as a foreign language context" at the 4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-14), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
April 2013
"Self-policing and unproblematic code-alternation in the English as a foreign language classroom in a Swedish school: Towards the linguistic ecology of the English as a Foreign Language Classroom" at the conference Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language learning, Second Language Research Center (SELC), University of Southern Denmark.
November 2012
"Self-policing: How English-only is upheld in the foreign language classroom" at NORDISCO 2012, Linköping University
August 2012
The language-policing practices constituting the emerging micro-level language policy-in-process in the EFL classroom: The example from a Swedish EFL classroom" at Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität, Berlin
