Pramod Sah


PhD Candidate

Language & Literacy Education

Faculty of Education

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Research themes: Language Planning and Policy; English Medium Instruction; TESOL and Social Justice; Social Class; Political Economy 

Pramod is a PhD candidate & Killam Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 

Pramod has earned an M.Ed. in English Language Teaching from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and an MA in TESOL with Applied Linguistics from the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Pramod’s work is driven by the core values of social justice indexes, for example, class and ethnicity, in English language education policies and practices in low- and middle-income polities, often drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s critical social theories. His Ph.D. research, a critical ethnography, looks at the broader intersection of political economy, social class, and English-medium instruction (EMI) policy in the multilingual ecology of Nepal.

He has also served as a Strand Coordinator for the Advocacy, Social Justice, and Community Building strand of TESOL International Association and currently leads the Forum "Teaching English & Teaching in Global Context" as a EMI South Asia Coordinator. 

Research themes: Language Planning and Policy; English Medium Instruction; TESOL and Social Justice; Social Class; Political Economy 

Research and Publications: ResearchGateAcademia and ORCiD

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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