Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam’s Profile

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Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam

 

Extraordinary Professor, South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) rated Researcher,

Language Education Department, Faculty of Education,The University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa.

Phone:  Office 027-21 949-2449/ Cell: 091-725233933

 Chief Editor/ Journal of English as an International Language/ http://www.eilj.com/

Associate Editor /Asian EFL Journal /http://www.asian-efl-journal.com

Excecutive Board Member/International TESOL Accrediting Authority

Honorary International Advisor/ TESOL Journal/ Asian EFL Journals Group.

 

Personal Information
Nationality: Indian
Date of birth: October 07, 1952
Email: sivakumar49@yahoo.com
Languages: English (associate first language), Tamil (first language), Hindi (third language)
Phone: Residence-027-021-946-1631/Cell+27 0725233933
Email: sivakumar49@yahoo.com

Summary of Qualifications

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics/ English Studies
March 1999 – November 2003 (completed and passed viva voce),
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Graduated: July 8, 2004.

MA in (Linguistics) TESOL, 1997,
University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

MA in English, 1975,
University of Madras, India.

Highest Achievement

Recipient of St. Bernard’s Special Merit Award in 1998 for excellence in teaching and community service, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.( Featured in Assumption University Hall of Fame)

Summary of Experience

I have over 30  plus years of experience as a professional in the field of ELT/ TESOL (adults). I have worked in various capacities and have served diverse secondary and tertiary institutions in India, Ethiopia, Thailand, Bahrain, Armenia, U.A.E. and South Africa.

International Professional Service

• November 1995- October 2002: Served the Thailand TESOL Executive Committee in the capacities of Secretary and Chair, SIG Literature and Literacy.

• August 2006 – August 2008: Served the Armenian English Language Teachers’ Association (AELTA) as Special Adviser.

• September 2006-August 2008: served as teacher development consultant for Peace Corps Armenia.

• November 2006 – present: Serving on the Editorial Board of the Asian EFL Journal, a prestigious international refereed journal. Since June 2007, I have been serving the journal as one of its Associate Editors and in this capacity, I oversee and coordinate editorial reviews and submissions across the world, supervise rewrites of papers accepted for publication in addition to providing advisory to the Senior Executive/Associate Editor on submissions that qualify for acceptance as well as rejection.

• August 25, 2010- Serving as Chief Editor of the Journal of English as an International Language (EILJ), an international refereed journal. In this capacity, I screen, and coordinate editorial reviews and submissions across the world. This will entail supervising and scrutinizing rewrites of papers accepted for publication in addition to providing both acceptance notification and rejection advisory to the authors. Furthermore, I oversee the final production stages of the journal’s issues twice a year, in addition to editing and writing foreword for every issue

Publications Portfolio

Book-2
Refereed Book chapters -5
Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journal Articles- 23
Edited collections and Forewords- 14
Forthcoming publications – 3

Conference Presentations- 26

Postgraduate Thesis Supervisions

MA/ M.Ed- 13
PhD- completed- 8, on-going- 7

External Refereeing of MA Theses: 3

MA/ MED Theses Examination: 12

PhD Theses Examination: 7

Student Evaluations

I have received outstanding student evaluations throughout my teaching career. My students have always spoken highly of my human-centered approach to their learning and my sensitivity to their voice and agency.

Statement of Teaching Philosophy and Research Interests

My PhD, which is an ethnographic action research, investigates into the educational practice of reading and writing in an EFL/ESL classroom context and its implications for social and critical literacy. The study, which is a longitudinal classroom investigation, attempts a hermeneutic description of second language learning as a response phenomenon and underscores the urgency to view the phenomenon in interrelated terms with the help of a constructivist epistemology.

An uncritical acceptance and emphasis of modernist assumptions in our current practices of language education has done more harm than good to our student populations. Furthermore, the hegemony of a psycholinguistic/scientific research tradition in foreign and second language settings has reduced our students to statistical entities on spreadsheets denying them of their agency and subjecthood. Consequently, the research preoccupations with a psycholinguistic objectivity of inputs and outputs have neither enhanced our understanding of how and why our students learn a foreign/second language the way they do nor has it helped us come to terms with the social and cultural dimensions of their language learning. To the contrary, such preoccupations have promoted an unwholesome and asocial view of learning and living much to the detriment of language education.

If language education is to bring about constructive social change, empowerment and democratic citizenry, it should provide substantial opportunity for our students to engage with it emotionally and aesthetically. Only then will our students realize the beneficial impact of their interpretive and imaginative abilities in the use of their language and only then, will our students realize the immediacy and primacy of their meaning creations through their use of language. Such endeavours and outcomes are not only vital to our students’ language development but are also crucial to their emotional and intellectual development without which they will be defenseless in a world characterized by a culture of categorical stupidity and illiteracy.

The current prevalence of bibliometric/ calculable thinking, statistical data and the use of information technology in quantitative studies appear to promote objective, value free and atemporal knowledge of language development as the ultimate goal of language teaching research. Such a position contradicts what we experience in real life situations and contexts because our knowledge of daily living and learning is eminently subjective and unmistakably value-laden. Therefore it is a naivety to say that knowledge should be value-free if it is to be objective as the need to be value-free is in itself not free of value.

Viewed in the light of these observations, it is contingent on language educators to promote research and teaching practices which will capture the quintessential aspects of learning as a lived through experience and articulate the centrality of constructivist/hermeneutic understanding of students’ language development and qualitative/interpretive epistemologies. Needless to say that this stance underlies my publications and teaching repertoire, I wish to explore the following research themes further in my educational practice of teaching and research:

• Reader Response in EFL/ESL
• Critical Reading and Critical Literacies
• Imaginative Writing as a Basis for Rhetorical Maturity
• The Use of Interpretive Reading and Writing in EAP
• Literature in EFL/ESL
• The Use of Response Journals in Language Education
• The Use of Mastery-Models in EFL/ESL Testing Frameworks
• Text-Based Approaches to Academic Reading and Writing
• Reading-Teacher Development
• Figurative Language and its Educational Implications
• Narratives in Language Teaching Research

As I have a dual background in Literature and Applied linguistics in addition to a PhD in ELT, I believe that I am well-equipped to bring an inter-disciplinary perspective to the context of TESOL education and its specialist training/developmental needs in any given higher education setting. I further believe that my wide international teaching experience can provide the input, stimulus and synergy for classroom and community based research into the educational practices of reading and writing aimed at promoting constructive social change, critical and social literacies. In addition, it can lay the groundwork for vibrant innovative approaches to language teaching.

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics /English Studies supervised by Professor Ronald Carter and co-supervised by Professor Alan Maley.
March 1999 – November 2003 (examined and completed), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Graduated: July 8, 2004

Thesis title: An Investigation of L2 Students’ Reading and Writing in a Literature –Based Language Programme

My PhD, which is an ethnographic action research project based on 250 hours of classroom work, investigates into the educational practice of reading and writing in a Thai TESOL classroom context along with its implications for social and critical literacy.

Implemented in two iterations, the study deployed personal-response, reader-response approaches to promote expressive and sociocultural models of reading and writing that were meant to address the current poverty of reading and writing endemic in second language education. Rejecting modernist assumptions in second language education and its preoccupations with a scientific/psycholinguistic research tradition, the study undertakes a hermeneutic description of second language learning as a response phenomenon and underscores the urgency to view the phenomenon in interrelated terms with the help of a constructivist/qualitative epistemology.

1993 – 1997, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
MA in Linguistics, TESOL
Core Modules (Assessment by assignment and synoptic examination):

 Syllabus Design
 Pedagogical Grammar
 Phonetics and Phonology
 Discourse Analysis
 Testing
 Sociolinguistics
 Second Language Acquisition
 Methodology
Electives (Assessment by assignment):
• Literature
• Written Genres
Dissertation: The Use of Graded Readers in the Teaching of Reading and Writing

MA in English
1973 – 1975, Madras Christian College, University of Madras, India
Major: (Branch vii) English Language and Literature

Subjects of study (Assessment by course work and exam):
• Essay
• Modern Literature 1(Elizabethan)
• Modern Literature 11(Neo Classical)
• Modern Literature 111(Romantic)
• Modern Literature 1V(Victorian)
• Modern Literature V(Twentieth Century)
• Shakespeare
• The English language

Conference Presentations

1.  Plenary Workshop, An Expressivist Process approach to Academic Writing English Scholars Beyond Borders (ESBB) 5th Annual Convention, Toyama, Japan, March 22-25 1/2018.

2. Plenary Address, Negotiating Curriculum or Negating Curriculum: Student- teachers Crossing Borders to Shape their Voice and Identity English Scholars Beyond Borders (ESBB) 4th Annual Convention, Leeds, UK June 29-July 1/2017.

3. Plenary Address, Becoming and Being Expressive Writers by Crossing Borders English Scholars Beyond Borders (ESBB) 3rd Annual Convention, Taichung, Taiwan May 19-22/2016.

4. Plenary Address, Working Funeral for One Right Reading: Joining a Confederacy of   Readers. English Scholars beyond Borders (ESBB) 2nd Annual Convention, Bangkok, Thailand, February 5-7/2015.

5. Plenary Address, Maximizing EIL Competence through Students’ Agency, Voice and Inter-subjectivity. English Scholars beyond Borders (ESBB) 1st Annual Convention, Izmir, Turkey, March 19-22/2014.

6. Paper, “Folklore in Language Classrooms.”12th Biennial International Conference of the South African Folklore Society (SAFOS) Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, September 19- 21, 2012

7.   Poster session, “Anchoring Constructivism in Language Teacher education: Issues for Promoting Student Teachers’ Voice and Agency.” Higher Education South Africa (HESA) Teacher Education Conference, the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, September 17-18, 2012.

8.Joint Paper, Nunn, R., & Sivasubramaniam, S., Guefrachi, Y., Tariq, A., Al Shami, H. (2012) “Establishing Voice and Agency in Students’ Writing.” In Sharda, R.S. (Ed.) Hans Raj Mahila Maha vidyalaya, Mahatma Hans Raj Marg, Jalandhar, India: Proceedings of International Conference on English Language & Literary Studies, March 9-10, 2012.

9.Joint Paper, Nunn, & R. Sivasubramaniam, S. (with 3 undergraduate students of the Petroleum Institute/PI: Yasmine Guefrachi, Hadeel Al Shami & Ayesha Tariq), “Researching Competent Texts with Competent Students.” The Middle East – North Africa Writing Centres Alliance (MENAWCA 2011) Conference at American University of Sharjah, in Sharjah, UAE, February 17-18, 2011

10.Plenary Address, “Calling Attention to Constructivism in ELT.AELTA 11th Annual Convention, Yerevan, Armenia, October 31, 2009.

11.  Paper, “Signposting a Socially Aligned Approach to Language: Issues and Insights for Teaching and Research.” Fifth CAM TESOL Annual Convention, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February 21, 2009.

12.  Plenary Address, “Democratizing and Dehegamonizing Literature in the Service of Language Education: Endeavors of Empowerment.” Second International Conference of the Armenian Association for the Study of English (AASE), Yerevan, Armenia, October 18, 2007.

13.  Paper, “Qualitative methodology: Interpretations for Empowerment.”Graduate Studies seminar organized by the College of Health Sciences at American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, March 14, 2007.

14.  Workshop, “The How and Why of Expressive-Process Approach to EFL.”Peace Corps Armenia Teacher training Convention, Yerevan, Armenia, November 20, 2006.

15.  Plenary Address, “Changes and Challenges in ELT.” AELTA Annual Convention, Yerevan, Armenia, November 18, 2006.

16.  Paper, “A Practitioner’s Perceptions on Assessment: Emerging Narratives of Teacher Empowerment.” First Annual Conference of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA), Armenia Chapter, Yerevan, Armenia, November 11, 2006.

17.  Paper, “The Prevalence of Literature in Language Education: A Prospect, Reality and Response.” Staff Seminar, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon, January 20, 2006.

18.  Workshop, “Relocating the Journal in the EFL Classroom.” Twenty-second Annual Thai TESOL Convention, Chiangmai, Thailand, January 2002.

19.  Workshop, “Critical Thinking in the EFL Classroom.”American University Alumni Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2001.

20.  Workshop, “Poetry in the EFL Classroom.” Twenty-first Annual Thai TESOL Convention, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2001.

21.  Workshop, “The Use of Imagination and Creativity.” Twentieth Annual Thai TESOL Convention, Khonkhaen, Thailand, January 2000.

22.  Paper, “Investigating Students’ Journals in an Action Research Study.” Second pan-Asian Conference on Language Teaching, Seoul, S.Korea, October 1999.

23.Workshop, “Critical Language Awareness in the EFL Classroom.” Nineteenth Annual Thai TESOL Convention, Bangkok, Thailand, January 1999

24.  Workshop, “Teacher-Mediated Learner Autonomy.” Eighteenth Annual Thai TESOL Annual Convention, Hatyai, Thailand, January 1998.

25.  Workshop, “The Use of Figurative Language in the EFL Classroom.” First Pan-Asian Conference on Language Teaching, Bangkok, Thailand, January 1997.

26.  Workshop, “The Use of Representational Materials.”  Sixteenth Thai TESOL Annual Convention, Pattaya, Thailand, January 1996.

Graduate Theses Supervision
University of the Western Cape

 

Completed PhD supervisions

  •  John Foncha, Investigating the role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars: Coming to Terms with Inter-Cultural Communicative Competence. (Completed in November 2012 and graduated in March 2013)
  •  Buque, Domingos (Mozambique) Literacy Programmes in Mozambique:  Adults’ Motivations, Perspectives and Expectations – the Case of Multilingual Maputo and Pemba Provinces. (Completed in May-2013 and graduated in September 2013),
  • Mironko, Beatrice (Rwanda Factors Influencing Academic Success in English for Academic Purposes in a Faculty of Science and Technology in Rwanda. (Completed in May-2013 and graduated in September 2013)
  • Godfroid Kartalayi (DR Congo) The DR Congo English State Examination (ESE): Fundamental Validity Issues. (Completed in November 2013 and graduated in March 2014)
  • Verbra Francs Pfeiffer  (South Africa)  Investigating the Role of Expressive Writing in a Literacy Pedagogy  with a Focus on Motivating High School Students to Becoming Better Writers -A classroom-based Ethnographic study. (Completed in November 2014 and graduated in March 2015)
  • Ndimurugero Speciose (Rwanda) Learning English for Academic Purposes in Higher Education in Rwanda: A Case Study of the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in Rwanda. ***Co-supervising with Professor. Desai. (Completed in February 2016 and graduated in April 2016).
  • Joseph Mukoroli (Namibia) An Investigation of Academic Writing at the University of Namibia: Engendering an Experiential, Meaningful and Critical Pedagogy for English for Academic Purposes. (Completed and graduated in April 2017 ).
  • Cathrine Ngwaru (Zimbabwe), (completed), Improving Pre-Service Teacher Development Practices in English as a Second Language through re-in forcing existing structures and processes: A case of Secondary School Teacher Preparation in Zimbabwe.

Ongoing PhD Supervisions

  • Ada James Almano (South Africa) (work in progress), Multilingualism and Multicultural Communication in B.Ed Studies: A Tool for national Integration and nation Building in the New South African context.
  • Mervyn A. Coetzee (South Africa), (work in progress), Trauma, injustice and identity: an egalitarian and auto-ethnographic approach to analyzing students’ language narratives.
  • Hamakali Hafeni, (Namibia), (work in progress), Assessing students in English for Academic Purposes: The role of alternative assessment tools in writing inst ruction.
  • Laurent Beya Kalala, (DR Congo), (work in progress), An Appraisal Study of Language Usage and Use for Literacy in Second Language Investigation into English Textbooks Used in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Mark Frank, (South Africa), (work in progress), An Investigation into English Home Language Teachers use of the English Home Language Textbook in Grade 11.
  •  Kondwani Kelvin Mkandawire, (Malawi), (work in progress),  An Investigation of language learning agency in English for Academic Purposes: The Case of the Malawi University of Science and Technology

Completed MEdThesis Supervisions

  • Godefroid Bantumbandi Katalayi, The DR Congo English State Examination: Evaluating Context Validity Evidence.” (Graduated with distinction in November 2011)
  • Mark Frank (Graduated with distinction in April 2016), Perceived Difficulties in the English Language Classroom and Innovative Ways in Dealing with them in High School.
  • Damilola Ibiwumi Joseph (Graduated with distinction in April 2016), A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language Attitudes and Practices of Bilingual Students at University of the Western Cape (UWC).
  • Parveen Palekar , Investigating Text Selection and Evaluation in the promotion of reading a Western Cape School Setting. (Completed in December 2016 and will graduate in April 2017).

American University of Armenia

**The following students have successfully completed their MA TEFL theses under my tutelage and graduated.

  • Ani Arakelyan (2008), An Investigation of the Influence of Dialogue Journal in an Armenian Setting.
  • Anna Gevorgyan (2008), Investigating the Dynamics and Outcomes of implementing Differentiated Instruction in an Armenian EFL Setting.
  • Arpine Sargsyan (2008), Using Literature to promote Language Learning in Armenian EFL Settings: Issues and Insights for Implementation.
  • Hayarpi Papygyan (2008), An Investigation of Extensive Reading in Armenian EFL Settings: Attitudes, Practices and Procedures of Evaluation.
  • Lilit Petrosyan (2008), An Investigation of the AUA Graduate Students’ Attitudes Towards reading: Coming to Terms with Literacy, Culture and empowerment.
  • Marine Arakelyan (2007), Motivation as One of the Contributing Personality Factors to Success in the EFL Classroom.
  • Gohar Hovakimyan (2007), The Roles of teachers and Learners in the English Teaching Classrooms of Armenia.
  • Liana Gregorian (2007), An Evaluation of the Implementation of the English Language teachers’ Professional Portfolio in Armenian EFL Settings.
  • Melissa Brown (2007), A study of Language, Culture and Interaction in an Extra-Curricular Debate Club.
  • Marina Badalyan (2007), Task- Based Learning and Students’ Motivation in the Armenian Classroom
  • Lusine Boyajyan (2006), Use of Hedging Devices in Good and Poor EFL Essays
  • Assumption University Bangkok
  • Ms. Chatsuda Komindr (2002), A Small Scale Investigation of the Role of Extensive Reading in the Thai EFL Classroom.

External Refereeing of MA Theses

  • Gobhain, E. A., ESP in Medical Schools and the Balance between EFL and ELF from Students’ Perspective: A Study at Jazan University/ Egypt, July 2011.
    Paine, M., Standard v Non-Standard Englishes: Which model are we teaching and why? Oxford Brookes University, U.K. July 2011.
  • Roh, T., A Study of Language Attitudes through English Accent Evaluations by Koreans in the Philippines, University of the Philippines, Manila, August 2011.

PhD Thesis Examination

  • Roy Pushpa Vilasam Veetil, Vital Issues in Postcolonial English Language Pedagogy. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, June 2014.
  • Manthekeleng A Kgandei, A Case Study of Students’ First Additional Language Reading and Response in the Faculty of Education at the University of Fort Hare: Eastern cape Province. University of Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa, February 2015.
  • Zengele, TSC, English Language Proficiency Skills of Information and Communication Technologies Foundation Students at a University of Technology: Assessing the Effectiveness of the English Word Power programTshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
  • *** Also acted as the candidate’s viva voce Examiner on February 26, 2016.
  • Kepe, MH; Building a Reading Culture among Grade 12 Learners in an English First Additional Language Classroom: The Case of One High School in King William’s Town Education District. University of Fort Hare Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa, October 2016.
  • Mathew, M.L; English Language Reading Anxiety: The Effect of Semantic Mapping Strategy on Secondary School ESL Learners of Puducherry/ India. November 2016.

MA/ MED Theses Examination

  • Thembisa Mushipe, Teacher Perceptions and Practices Regarding a Text Based Approach to English (L2) Writing Instruction in Grade 6: A South African Case Study, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape , South Africa, March 2015.
  • Qunita Kemende Wunseh, Identity Construction through English Second Language Learning: A Case Study of French Speaking Students at the University of the Western Cape, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Western Cape , South Africa, July 2014.
  • Lehlohonolo Victor Motkae, Multilingual Nutrition Labeling and Consumers’ Health in South Africa: An Impact Assessment, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, May 2014.
  • Olanrewaju, Cohesion and Coherence as Discourse Markers in the English Narrative Essays of Undergraduate Students in Gautng Province,  Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2012.
  • Shanali Candice Govendaer,  On the fringes of a diaspora: An Appraisal of the literature on language diaspora and globalization in relation to a family of Tamil-speaking, Sri Lankan migrants to South Africa,  University of  Cape Town, South Africa, September 2012 .
  • Ancyfrida Prosper, What do Grade 1 learners write? A study of Literacy Development at a Multilingual Primary School in the Western Cape.  University of the Western Cape, South Africa, July 2012.
  • Nonhlanhla Shandu, Digital Literacy: ICT Integration in English First Additional Language Teaching. University of the Western Cape, South Africa, January 2012.
  • Anahit Atoyan, The Importance of Appropriate Peer Review Techniques in Armenian EFL Writing Courses. The American University of Armenia, July 2008.
  • Susanna Sargsyan, Implemanting Intercultural Learning in the EFL/ ESL Learning Context. The American University of Armenia, July 2008.
  • Veronica Moiseenko, Reflective EFL Teacher Education in Armenia.The American University of Armenia, July 2007.
  • Gohar Minasyan, The Effect of First Language and Age on Second Language Acquisition. The American University of Armenia, July 2007.
  • Anahit Melkonyan, Devloping Presentation Skills with Secondary School Students in Armenia.  The American University of Armenia, July 2007.

In-house publication

“New Horizons in English Language Training” An instructional guide/reference manual for the teacher trainees at the Education Ministry’s Teacher Training Institutes (TTI) Ethiopia, July, 1986

Book

  1. Nunn & Sivasubramaniam. S., (Eds) From Defining EIL Competence to Designing EIL Learning. (July 2011) S. Korea: Asian EFL Journal Press, A Division of Time Taylor International.
  1. W. Foncha, S.Sivasubrmaniam, J..Adamson & Nunn,R; ( Eds) Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars: Coming to Terms with Inter-Cultural Communicative Competence. (Preface written by Professor Ronald Carter of Nottingham University, U.K.) Cambridge Scholars.

 

Refereed Book Chapters

  1. Sivasubramaniam, “Anchoring Literature in Extensive Reading Programmes: Issues and Insights for Promoting Intersubjectivity in the Classroom.” In Cirocki. A, (Ed) (June 2009), Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching.      Munich: Lincolm-Europa.
  2. Sivasubramaniam, “Extensive Reading as Semiotic Mediation: a Celebration of Lived through Experiences.” In Cirocki. A, (Ed) (June 2009), Extensive Reading in English Language Teaching. Munich: Lincolm-Europa.
  3. Sivasubramaniam, “Articulating an Alternate Voice in Language Teaching Research.” In Nunn .R. and Adamson. J. (Eds). ( June 2009) Accepting Alternative Voices in EFL Journal Articles. S.Korea: Asian EFL Press.
  4. Sivasubramaniam, “Signposting a Socially Aligned Approach to Second /Foreign Language Education: Issues and Insights for Teaching and Research.” In Reddy. V. & Marathe. S.( Eds)( April 2015) Innovations in English Language Teaching (A Festschrift volume ) Hyderabad, India: EMESCO
  5. V.F. & Sivasubramaniam.S. First Year Students: Using Expressive Writing to Cope with Trauma. In Witruk. E., (Eds) (2016), Dyslexia and Traumatic Experience. Peter Lang, Germany.

Refereed /Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Text-Based Focus in a Literature-Based Approach to Language Teaching’ The English Teacher, Vol. 1, No.3, 1996.
  2. Sivasubramaniam, ‘A Book Review of “Now Read On” McRae, J. and Vethamani, M. 2000 London: Routledge’ English Teacher, Vol.3, No.3, 2000.
  3. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Signposting a Turnaround for Literature in Mainstream EFL/ESL: A Personal Enrichment Approach’ Thai TESOL Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2006.
  4. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Promoting the Prevalence of Literature in the Practices of Foreign and Second Language Education: Issues and Insights’ Asian EFL Journal, Vol. 8, No.4, 2006.
  5. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Attempting a Well-defined Choice of Texts in Literature-Based EFL/ESL Settings: An Act of Teacher Empowerment’ Thai TESOL Bulletin, Vol. 19, No.2, 2006.
  6. Sivasubramaniam, ‘A Practitioner’s Perceptions on Assessment: Emerging Narratives of Teacher Empowerment’ Foreign Languages in Armenia, Issue 2, 2007.
  7. Sakhyan* & Sivasubramaniam.S, ‘The Difficulties of Armenian Scholars trying to Publish in International Journals.’ ABAC Journal, Vol.28, No.2. 2008.(Co-authored with my MA TEFL student at AUA, Yerevan)
  8. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Responding to Reading: Issues and Insights for Promoting Agency, Voice and Subjecthood in Reading and Assessment’ Asian EFL Journal, Vol. 11, No.1, 2009.
  9. Bilton & Sivasubramaniam.S, ‘An Inquiry into Expressive Writing: A Classroom-Based Study’ Language Teaching Research, (with L.Bilton) Vol.13, No.3 2009.
  10. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Democratizing and Dehegamonizing Literature in the Service of language Education: Endeavours of Empowerment’. Armenian Anglistika Folica, Vol.6, No.2.2009.
  11. Sivasubramaniam, ‘Constructivism in EIL: Issues and Insights for Teaching of EIL.’ Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.6, No.1. 2011.
  12. Gyulazyan.* & Sivasubramaniam. S., The ELP as a Tool for Democratising Language Teaching. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.7, No.1. 2012. (* Co-authored with my MA TEFL student at AUA, Yerevan.)
  13. B. Katalayi. * & Sivasubramaniam.S. Careful Reading versus Expeditious Reading: Investigating the Construct Validity of a Multiple-choice Reading Test. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol.3, No. 6 2013. (* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  14. Arpine.* & Sivasubramaniam. S., Implementing Literature in Armenian EFL Setting: An Ethnographic Study. Asian EFL Journal, Vol.15, No.3, 2013.(*Co-authored with my MA TEFL student at AUA, Yerevan.)
  15. S., Folktales in Language classrooms. South African Journal for Folklore Studies, Vol.23, No.1, 2013.
  16. Foncha, J.W.* & Sivasubramaniam, S., The Links between Intercultural Communication Competence and Identity construction in the UWCommunity. Mediterranean Journal of Social sciences, 5, No.10, 2014. (* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  17. B. Katalayi. * & Sivasubramaniam.S. A Context-based Perspective to Investigating the Construct Validity of Reading Assessment. Mediterranean Journal of Social sciences, Vol.5, No.17, 2014 (* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  18. B. Katalayi. * & Sivasubramaniam.S. The Construct Validity of a Reading Test Based on Narrative Texts. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol.6, no.1, 2015 (* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  19. S., Maximizing EIL Competence through Students’ Agency, Voice and Inter-subjectivity. ESBB- English Scholars Beyond Borders, Vol.1, Issue 1, 2015.
  20. W. Foncha* & Sivasubramaniam.S. Learners and Teachers’ Perspectives on First Additional/L2 Language learning as social practice in the diverse community of the University of Western Cape. International Journal of Educational Sciences, Vol.9 (1), 2015(* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  21. Pfeiffer* & Sivasubramaniam.S, Exploration of self-expression to improve L2 writing skills. Perlinguam, Vol.32 (2) 2016 (* Co-authored with my PhD supervisee at UWC, Western Cape.)
  22. Sivasubramaniam .S, A Working funeral for One Right Reading: Joining a Confederacy of Readers. ESBB- English Scholars Beyond Borders, Vol.3, Issue 1, 2017.

**Edited Journal collections:

  1. Sivasubramaniam (2011) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.6, No.1. (100 pages).
  2. Sivasubramaniam (2011) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.6, No.2. (120 pages).
  3. Sivasubramaniam (2012) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.7, No.1. (107 pages).
  4. Sivasubramaniam (2012) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.7, No.2. (120 pages).
  5. Sivasubramaniam (2013) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 8, No.1. (110 pages).
  6. Sivasubramaniam (2013) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 8, No.2. (101 pages)
  7. Sivasubramaniam (2014) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 9, No.1. (121 pages)
  8. Sivasubramaniam (2014) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 9, No.2. (116 pages)\
  9. Sivasubramaniam (2015) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 10, No.1. (103 pages)
  10. Sivasubramaniam (2015) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 10, No.2. (169 pages)
  11. Sivasubramaniam (2016) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 11, No.1. (93 pages)
  12. Sivasubramaniam (2016) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 11, No.2. (152 pages)
  13. Sivasubramaniam (2017) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 12, No.1. (111 pages)
  14. Sivasubramaniam (2017) (Ed) Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 12, No.2. (118 pages) **Available in PDF format; http://www.eilj.com

**Forewords

  1. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.6, No. 1, p. ii-iv (2011)
  2. S.S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.6, No. 2, p. ii-iv (2011
  3. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.7, No. 1, p. iii-v (2012)
  4. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol.7, No. 2, p. ii-v (2012)
  5. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 8, No.1, p. i-iv (2013).
  6. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 8, No.2. p. i-iv (2013).
  7. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 9, No.1. p. v-viii (2014).
  8. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 9, No.2. p. iv-vii (2014).
  9. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 10, No.1. p.v-viii (2015).
  10. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 10, No.2. p.v-x (2015).
  11. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 11, No.1. p.i-iv (2016).
  12. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 11, No.2. p.i-iv (2016).
  13. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 12, No.1. p.vi-x (2017).
  14. S.Sivasubramaniam. Journal of English as an International Language, Vol. 12, No.1. p.vii-xii (2017).

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