Ahmar Mahboob

Dr Ahmar Mahboob teaches at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Curriculum vitae

Ahmar earned his PhD at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2003, with a dissertation on "Status of nonnative English speakers as ESL teachers in the United States".

Ahmar has worked in the areas of language policy development, pidgin and creole languages, NNEST studies, English language acquisition, English language teaching and teacher education, World Englishes, pragmatics, and issues surrounding minority languages in South Asia. His recent work has focused on Pakistani English and on languages of Pakistan. Ahmar is the Past President of Indiana TESOL and the Past Chair of the [http://nnest.moussu.net NNEST Caucus] in TESOL International. He teaches on the MA in Applied Linguistics [http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/index.php?page=pgrad] at the University of Sydney.

Publications

Some of Ahmar's recent publications include:

Books and short monographs

*Mahboob, A. (2004). Pakistan Mein Angreizi ka Mustaqbil (in Urdu). Islamabad: Strengthening Participatory Organization. (translation of Mahboob 2003 below.)
*Mahboob, A. (2003). The Future of English in Pakistan. Islamabad: Strengthening Participatory Organization.

Book chapters

*Bhatt, R., & Mahboob, A. (in press for early 2007). Minority languages in South Asia. In B. Kachru & K. Sridhar (Eds.), Languages in South Asia: Cambridge University Press.
*Mahboob, A., & Talaat, M. (in press for September 2006). English language teachers and teacher education in Pakistan. In S. Dogancay-Aktuna & J. Hardman (Eds.), Global English Language Teacher Education. Washington, D.C.: TESOL Publications.
*Mahboob, A. (in press for June 2006). Confessions of an enraced TESOL professional. In A. Curtis & M. Romney (Eds.), Shades of Meaning: Articulating the Experiences of TESOL Professionals of Color.
*Mahboob, A. (2005). Beyond the native speaker in TESOL. In S. Zafar (Ed.), Culture, Context, & Communication. Abu Dhabi: Center of Excellence for Applied Research and Training & The Military Language Institute.
*Mahboob, A. (2004). Pakistani English: An overview of its syntax, morphology, and lexis. In B. Kortmann & E. Traugott (Eds.), A Handbook of Varieties of English (Vol. 2, pp. 1045 - 1056): Mouton de Gruyter.
*Mahboob, A. (2004). Native or nonnative: What do the students think? In L. D. Kamhi-Stein (Ed.), "Learning and Teaching from Experience: Perspectives on Nonnative English-Speaking Professionals" (pp. 121 - 147). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
*Mahboob, A., & Ahmar, N. (2004). Pakistani English: A historical and phonological overview. In B. Kortmann & E. Traugott (Eds.), A Handbook of Varieties of English (Vol. 1, pp. 1003 - 1016): Mouton de Gruyter.
*Mahboob, A., Uhrig, K., Newman, K., & Hartford, B. (2004). Children of a lesser English: Nonnative English Speakers as ESL teachers in English language programs in the United States. In L. D. Kamhi-Stein (Ed.), "Learning and Teaching from Experience: Perspectives on Nonnative English-Speaking Professionals" (pp. 100 - 120). Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
*Mahboob, A. (2002). No English, No Future: Language Policy in Pakistan. In S. Obeng & B. Hartford. In S. Obeng & B. Hartford (Eds.), Political Independence with Linguistic Servitude: The politics about languages in the developing world (pp. 15 - 40). New York: NOVA Science.

Journal articles

*Mahboob, A. & Amin, N. (In press). Elite discourses of racism in TESOL.
*Mahboob, A. (2004). Demystifying the Native Speaker in TESOL. SPELT Quarterly, 19(3), 1 - 14.
*Hartford, B., & Mahboob, A. (2004). Models of discourse in the letter of complaint. World Englishes, 23(4), 585 - 600.
*Mahboob, A. (2003). The English Language in Pakistan: A brief overview of its history and linguistics. Pakistan Journal of Language, 4(1), 1 - 28.

Other publications

*Lal, V. and Mahboob, A. (2006) The Politics of Identity among Diasporic Communities along the Pacific Rim: Indians in the United States and Pakistanis in Australia. Singapore: Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).
*Mahboob, A. (2005). On 'double standards' in graduate program and 'agism' in scholarship/hiring policies. NNST Newsletter, 7(1).
*Mahboob, A. (2004). "On, for and with": Finding room for 'emancipation' in academic research. NNEST Newsletter, 6(2).
*Mahboob, A. (2004). A Sad Story Looking for a Happy Ending. Teacher Education Interest Section Newsletter, 19(2).

External links

* [http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/ U. Sydney's Dept of Linguistics page]
* [http://www.intesol.org Indiana TESOL]
* [http://nnest.moussu.net NNEST Caucus]