Asim Khan, M.Phil

I am a PhD student with extensive teaching experience in English language and linguistics at secondary, higher secondary, and undergrad levels.  I possess an inquisitive mind and hands-on experience of conducting empirical research across various linguistic domains in many universities around the world. My research interests include language variation and change, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, bilingualism/multilingualism, language planning and policies in multilingual contexts, World Englishes, linguistic typology, and English language teaching.

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Curriculum Vitae

2021–2022 Invited Visiting Student (PhD), University of Zurich, Switzerland

2011–2021 English Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan

2020–2021 MYP & IBDP English Teacher, Millennium Roots Schools, Pakistan

2016–2021 A-Level/SAT English Teacher, The Millennium University & College Pakistan

2002–2021 IGCSE/0/A-Level English Teacher, Beaconhouse School System

2009–2011 Research Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Japan

2015–2015 Faculty Research Fellowship, The University of North Texas, The State Department, USA

2011–2014 IELTS Teacher, NICON Institute, Pakistan

since 2023 PhD in English Linguistics (in progress), Bonn University

Dissertation: “Morphosyntactic Variation: A Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis of South Asian Englishes, British English and American English”

 2021–2022 Invited Visiting Student PhD (English Linguistics), University of Zurich

 2017–2018 PhD English Linguistics (coursework), Air University, Pakistan

2017 M. Phil in English Linguistics & Literature, Air University, Pakistan

2015 Faculty Research Fellowship, The University of North Texas, The State Department, USA

2002 Master in English Linguistics & Literature, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Current Research Project

Morphosyntactic Variation: A Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis of South Asian Englishes, British English and American English (PhD thesis in progress)

The work focuses on the comparison of South Asian Englishes to gain an insight into the multiple dimensions of English language use in South Asia and contribute to broader discussions on language variation and multilingualism in the region. Utilizing Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis (MuPDAR(F)), I am conducting a comparative study of South Asian Englishes and two supervarieties (BrE & AmE) to identify the factors that determine the morphosyntactic choices in native and South Asian varieties of English, establish the differences between the NS data and the NNS data in how the established factors affect the linguistic choices, see the differences between the different South Asian Englishes in how the established factors affect the linguistic choices, evaluate how much the behaviour of the NNS resembles that of the NS’s target variety, and discover the areas where the behaviour of the NNS exhibits the largest difference from that of the NS’s target variety. I also intend to evaluate the claim about IndE as a ‘linguistic epicenter’ of the South Asian Englishes.

Previous Research Projects:

  • 2018 Sociocultural Context and Second Language Acquisition: A case study of primary schools in Pakistan
  • 2017 A corpus-based study of elliptical coordination in the political speeches
    A Research Project presented in Research Group Meeting at Air Univrsity, Pakistan
  • 2011 Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning.
    A Research Report presented at the Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan

Publication

Khan, A. (in progress) Irregular Verb Morphology in British, American, Pakistani and Indian English: A closer study of irregular verbs with -t/-ed variation through multifactorial modelling.

Presentations

Khan, A. (2018). Language Appropriacy of the Teaching Evaluation Forms: An Evaluative Study. 2018 International Symposium on Education and Psychology. Osaka, Japan.

Khan, A. (2018). Family language policy: an ethnographic study of a Pashtun and a Hindko family. 4th International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan (ICLAP 2018).