Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism (PDF)

Kashif Raza has an MA in English Language and Literature from University of Sargodha, Pakistan, an LLB from the University of Punjab, Pakistan, and an MA TESOL from Oklahoma City University, USA. He is a Ph.D. student at Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada, specializing in educational leadership and policy, and is currently a lecturer in English and a faculty senator at Qatar University's Foundation Program. As a multilingual speaker of Urdu, Punjabi, English, Arabic, and Persian, and with academic background in ELT and law, Kashif has been involved in teaching, leadership, developing and supervising EAP and ESP law courses, and planning and implementing English education policies at department, college, and university levels. His research interests include language policy and planning, bi/pluri/multilingualism, language program leadership, teacher development, expectations and perceptions in education, SLW, legal English, and translation. Kashif also serves on the editorial board of a book series edited by Dr. Christine Coombe, entitled "English Language Teaching: Theory, Research and Pedagogy" and published by Springer. He also translated Dr. Dudley Reynold's research report on Language Policy in Globalized Contexts in Urdu which was published by WISE Qatar.
Christine Coombe has a Ph.D. in Foreign/Second Language Education from the Ohio State University. She is currently an associate professor of General Studies at Dubai Men's College in the UAE. Christine is a co-editor and co-author of numerous volumes on F/SL assessment, research, leadership, teacher evaluation, and TBLT. Her most recent publications are the Role of Language Teacher Associations in Professional Development (2018, Springer) and Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa (2019, Palgrave MacMillan). Christine served as the president of the TESOL International Association (2011-2012) and in 2017 was named to TESOL's 50@50