Editor's Introduction

Authors

Ahmar Mahboob Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Naomi K. Knight The University of Sydney

linguistics

Ahmar Mahboob, Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Ahmar Mahboob teaches linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He 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, additional language acquisition, additional language teaching and teacher education, World Englishes, pragmatics, and issues surrounding minority languages in South Asia. Ahmar is the Past President of Indiana TESOL and the Past Chair of the NNEST Caucus in TESOL International.

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