Chief Editors
Rama Kant Agnihotri, (Retd. University of Delhi), Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, India
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A L Khanna (Retd. University of Delhi), ELT Consultant, Delhi, India
A.L. Khanna,M.A (English), Ph D (Linguistics) retired as Reader in English from Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He was awarded a Nuffield Foundation Travelling Fellowship to work in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, (U.K.) 1989. His interests include Applied Linguistics, materials development, evaluation and assessment. He has presented papers at several national and international conferences and published extensively. He has co-authored and co-edited several English textbooks for young learners, and was one of the Series Editors of Research in Applied Linguistics, Sage, New Delhi. Presently, he is the Coordinating Editor of FORTELL: Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature and one of the Chief Editors of Language and Language Teaching Journal.
amrit.l.khanna@rajdhani.du.ac.in
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amrit.l.khanna@gmail.com
Editors
Suranjana Barua, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIITG), Assam, India
Suranjana Barua (PhD, University of Delhi) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. She is an accredited Language Specialist and Aviation English Trainer under Airports Authority of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt. of India and has served as a language consultant for many organizations across India. A well-known translator of Assamese fiction, her latest translation into English is a collection of Assamese short stories by Golap Khound titled Girmit (2023) and her latest book is titled Revelation of Self in Language: Narrative Identity as Emergent in Conversation (2023). She has served on the Editorial Board for the journal Language and Language Teaching since its inception in 2012.
https://www.iiitg.ac.in/humanities-and-social-science/suranjana-barua
Rakesh Bhatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rakesh M. Bhatt is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois. He specializes in sociolinguistics of language contact, in particular, issues of migration, minorities and multilingualism, code-switching, language ideology, and world Englishes. The empirical focus of his work has been on South Asian languages; particularly, Kashmiri, Hindi, and Indian
English. His study, Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri (1999, Kluwer Academic Press), was published in the prestigious series, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. He has also co-authored another book, World Englishes (2008, Cambridge University Press). He is the author of essays in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Annual Review of Anthropology, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Lingua, World Englishes, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, English Language and Linguistics and other venues. He is currently
editing a volume on South Asian Englishes for Oxford University Press, while also working on a book-length manuscript, under contract with Cambridge University Press, on the sociolinguistic patterns of subordination of Kashmiri language in Diaspora.
Rajesh Bhatt, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Rajesh Bhatt is Professor of Linguistics, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is interested in the comparative syntax of the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, the syntax-semantics interface, Tree Adjoining Grammars, and creation of linguistic resources for South Asian Languages. He completed his BTech in Computer Science at IIT Kanpur in 1993 and
got his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. From 1999-2004 he was an assistant professor at UT Austin. Since 2004, he has been at UMass Amherst where he is currently a full professor. He has also taught as a visiting professor at MIT and at various iterations of the LSA summer institutes, LISSIM summer school in India, the NYI in Saint Petersburg Russia, the LOT winter school and the CreteLing summer school.
bhatt@umass.edu
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Kathleen Heugh, School of Education, Adelaide University, Australia
Former Professor of Language Education and Multilingualism, University of South Australia; PhD Stockholm University (Language Policy and Bilingualism). A founding member of the Pan South African Language Board, she played a leading role in post-apartheid language policy and planning, initiated the first national sociolinguistic survey of South Africa, and designed and led the first trilingual literacy and mathematics assessment of secondary school students. She has played a leading role in several national and multi-country studies of language education in Africa and advised governments and transnational bodies on language education policy in Africa and the Asia Pacific. With Christopher Stroud and Piet van Avermaet, she is series editor of Bloomsbury’s Multilingualisms in Education. Her current focus is on Southern Multilingualisms and Transknowledging in education.
https://adelaide.edu.au/people/Kathleen.Heugh
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2387-6526
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E-Mail: kathleen.heugh@adelaide.com
Rajesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, (IITM) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Rajesh Kumar (PhD, Illinois) is Professor of Linguistics and English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The areas of his teaching and research include theoretical linguistics, language and mind, and language and society. He has published several papers in journals of National and International repute
and he is the author of several books. Some of his publications are Negation and licensing of negative polarity items in Hindi syntax, Some landmarks in the history of ideas — Jayant Lele lectures (co-edited with R. K. Agnihotri), Linguistic Foundations of Identity: Readings in Language, Literature, and Contemporary Cultures (co-edited with Om Prakash).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-3080
Scopus Author ID: 56444615700
Devaki Lakshminarayan, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Devaki Lakshminarayan holds a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from the University of Mysore (1987). She had earlier completed her post-graduation in Psychology from Bangalore University. She also holds a Masters in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has been with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore since 1986 and has over 22 years of research experience in Academics. Her areas of interest are language learning, bilingualism and bilingual education, and the relation between language and cognition. She has published a number of papers in national and international research and education journals.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Devaki+Lakshminarayan&oq=deva
Lina Mukhopadhyay, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) Hyderabad, India
Lina Mukhopadhyay is a professor at the Department of Training and Development, School of English Language Education, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU, formerly CIEFL), Hyderabad, India. Her areas of expertise are bi/multilingual education, second language acquisition, language assessment, and academic writing. She has been a part
of collaborative research with the University of Cambridge to investigate the language learning outcomes of primary grade multilingual Indian learners studying in challenging contexts and their performance on multilingual multimodal reading assessments. She is on the editorial board of Languaging, Journal of Education and Language and Ideology. She has guest edited special issues in FORTELL, and Journal of Education, Language and Ideology.
She is also the Director, Research Acceleration Center, the Director, Research and Development Cell and the Director, All-India English Language Testing Authority (AIELTA) at EFLU.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lina-Mukhopadhyay?ev=hdr_xprf
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9448-4920
Mukul Priyadarshini, Formerly at Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Dr. Mukul Priyadarshini, a Ph.D. in Linguistics, taught in the B.El.Ed. Programme at Lady Shri Ram College and at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has been professionally associated with government organisations such as NCERT, NCTE, CBSE etc, and civil society organisations such as Eklavya, Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education, Organisation for Early Literacy Promotion (OELP), Tata Trusts etc. Her research interests include the position of Languages in Education, the discursive nature of Hindi, and the politics of languages in multilingual societies.
Mukul strongly believes in bringing the subtleties and aesthetics of languages into the discourse of education through rich children’s literature. She has been closely engaged in fostering the linguistic diversity of our classrooms as an editor, translator and educationist.
Achla Misri Raina, Formerly at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Achla M. Raina is a former professor of English and Linguistics, IIT Kanpur. She works in the areas of cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, descriptive linguistics and computational linguistics. Her empirical domain covers Indic and Dravidian languages, and occasionally, sign languages. Her work on event semantics and grammaticalisation figures among some of her recent contributions leveraging the principles of cognitive linguistics. Raina’s engagement with Kashmiri, her first language, has been a life-long one; she has documented several atypical features of this Indic language. Other than linguistics, her teaching interests include language pedagogy and cognitive science. She has taught English to generations of undergraduate students from disadvantaged linguistic backgrounds. She is an Institute Fellow of IIT Kanpur.
Sudharshana N.P., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Prof. Sudharshana N.P. is a Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). Specializing in English Language Education, Applied Cognitive Semantics, and L2 Acquisition, he is a widely published author, textbook contributor, and researcher in applied linguistics. He earned Doctorate (PhD) in 2013 from The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. His thesis explored the encoding of spatial events in ESL. He serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) for a major research project funded by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), focusing on a multi-language performance center to measure language proficiency in 12 Indian languages and to diagnose speech disorders. His publication includes: Task-based Language Teaching and Assessment (Springer Nature),
English for Engineers, English for Technical Communication, and A Cognitive Approach to English Grammar.