Kristof Savski
Biographic Data
| ID | 742215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristof Savski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristof |
| FAMILY NAME | Savski |
| SIGNATURE | SAVSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince of Songkla University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5561-6695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Failed’? Under-performing learners’ perspectives on Thailand’s English language policies
Blending Linguistic and Social Entrepreneurship on Online English Tutors’ Facebook Profiles
A key phenomenon in contemporary language education is its spread beyond conventional spaces, visible through different forms of shadow education—teaching and learning organized in parallel to established, state‐regulated structures. While traditional shadow education continues to play a role, a more recent trend is for online informal education, particularly on social media. A key challenge for online shadow educators is to achieve visibility in…
Mediating across the sustainable ecology: Researchers and practitioners as collaborating epistemic arbiters in developing a Global Englishes-informed coursebook
Constructing an ‘international’ environment: Language policy as discourse management in schoolscapes
Agency, authority and universality in the promotion of global ELT textbook series
There is at present much focus in ELT on describing and promoting teacher and learner agency. However, ELT as a professional field is concurrently characterised by an increasing orientation toward authoritative texts, particularly those imbued with authority at the transnational level. Global textbooks are a notable example, since they, along with global language testing and language policy, play an increasingly important role in determining teac…
Identity and belonging among racialised migrant teachers of English in Thailand
This article examines how inequalities of race impact on the way migrant teachers of English in Thailand articular their identity and belonging to the teaching profession and to the society they live in. There is at present a rather limited body of work on the migration of language teachers, despite the fact that mobility of teachers across conventional borders is part-and-parcel of language education in the globalised era. We report on research …
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency
The multi/translingual turn in sociolinguistics has highlighted a number of ideological entanglements of foundational concepts, most significantly the way that the notion of 'named languages' as bordered entities is intertwined with ideologies of nation and race. In this article, I consider what the conceptual place for linguistic borders is within a 'trans' framework of language and propose a focus on bordering, social actions in which indexical…
Linguistic landscape, critical language awareness and critical thinking: Promoting learner agency in discourses about language
in EnglishThere is now increased awareness of the need to challenge ‘common sense’ ideologies of language in education, turning language classrooms into spaces of analysis and liberation. Key to achieving this goal is equipping students with the skills needed to navigate diverse, complex discourses about language (critical thinking), as well as fostering an agentive disposition among them (critical language awareness). This article reports on res…
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: Expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses
Echoes of the past, hopes for the future: Examining temporalised schoolscapes in a minority region of Thailand
Recent work on linguistic landscapes at schools (schoolscapes) has highlighted the complex dialogic relationship between the semiotics of public signage in educational spaces and policies seeking to enforce dominant ideologies. In this paper, we discuss the results of research conducted in the Deep South of Thailand, a minority region in which the predominant language, ethnicity and religion are different from the rest of the nation, and which ha…
Primary-level English-medium instruction in a minority language community: Any space for the local language
One of the features of the growing prominence of English across the globe is the proliferation of English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes at all levels of education, driven by a neoliberal agenda which places a disproportionate value on English over other languages. While this spread has primarily affected more developed, urban contexts, EMI has also started to spread beyond the borders of large cities and into peripheral, rural areas, includ…
(Im)possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy
This article examines three sets of infrastructures that give shape to the academic knowledge economy, namely: institutional infrastructures (universities and conferences); gate-keeping infrastructures (journals and publishers); and validation infrastructures (competitive assessments of individuals and institutions). We analyse the tensed interplay between critical perspectives in applied linguistics and the influence of academic neoliberalism. W…
Bringing Global Englishes to the ELT classroom: English language learners’ reflections
The increasing use of English as a global language has challenged many the fundamental assumptions underpinning English langugae teaching (ELT). The Global Englishes (GE) paradigm acknowledges linguistic diversity associated with English use today, highlighting the need for this diverse profile of English to be reflected in language classrooms. This article reports on the effect of raising Thai English learners’ awareness of GE on their perceptio…
Language policy and linguistic landscape: Identity and struggle in two southern Thai spaces
Analysis of signage has traditionally represented a point of entry into examinations of language policy, with the visibility of different languages seen to be potentially indicative of repression of multilingualism, of struggles between different language regimes or of grass-roots resistance to top-down agendas. This paper argues for a more discursive approach to the nexus between linguistic landscape and language policy in investigations of mult…
Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: Ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture
One of the products of globalization in sociolinguistics is the emergence of transnational regimes in language policy, in which power is exercised across boundaries of traditional nation states. This paper engages with audit culture, a transnational policy mechanism which involves the continuous evaluation of nation states’ performance through the use of purportedly neutral, typically quantitative instruments. As achieving broader visibility in p…
Dialogicality and Racialized Discourse in Tesol Recruitment
The investigation and unmasking of racial inequality have been one of the cornerstones of the critical turn in TESOL, so much so that a significant body of literature on the topic now exists. Yet, there is often a lack of reflection on the fact that discourse surrounding contentious social issues like race is inherently dialogical in that it consists of constant interaction between different voices (heteroglossia) and ideologies (polyphony). This…
Polyphony and polarization in public discourses: Hegemony and dissent in a Slovene policy debate
Contemporary public discourses are, despite the growing array of technologies and spaces for participation, becoming increasingly characterized by polarization – the formation of two distinct and relatively homogeneous ‘sides’. However, while such polarization may be commonplace, it is not an inherent property of discourse but rather a result of strategic polarizing actions taken by specific actors in order to establish control over the debate. I…
Local problems and a global solution: Examining the recontextualization of Cefr in Thai and Malaysian language policies
Asians’ and ‘Westerners’: Examining the perception of ‘(non-)native’ migrant teachers of English in Thailand
Existing research has highlighted the complexity of the discourse surrounding ‘(non-)native speaker’, particularly with regard to how teachers are perceived by learners. This complexity has been compounded by globalisation, which has increased transnational mobility of teachers. Thailand has been particularly affected by this, as its population of local teachers has been complemented by a growing yet highly diverse contingent of migrant teachers.…
Moriarty, Máiréad (2015). Globalizing Language Policy and Planning: An Irish Language Perspective
This article reviews Globalizing Language Policy and Planning: An Irish Language Perspective 978-1-137-00560-1£ 109.99
Monolingualism and prescriptivism: The ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century
This paper examines the ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century by focusing on two key emergent themes. It focuses firstly on monolingualism as a key goal for Slovene language planners, starting with their efforts to create a standard language with no German influences in the nineteenth century, and continuing in their work to prevent Serbo-Croat influence in Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. A particular focus of the paper is on how stand…
The roles of field and capital in negotiating language policy in the Slovene parliament
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of integrating Bourdieu’s notions of field and capital in discursive analyses of language policy. The paper presents an analysis of a debate in a committee session of the Slovene parliament, where different actors negotiated about the contents of a language policy strategy. The study draws on nexus analysis by focussing on the situated nature of discursive actions in particular settings, and p…
Language policy at times of instability and struggle: The impact of fluctuating will and competing agendas on a Slovene language strategy
This article analyses how the drafting and implementation of the Resolution for a National Language Policy Programme 2014–2018, a Slovene language strategy, were influenced by political instability and inter-institutional struggles. By conducting a historical ethnography to trace how different authors contributed to the policy text, and examining these contributions against political shifts and the dynamics of the media discourse surrounding the …
Analysing voice in language policy: Plurality and conflict in Slovene government documents
Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: Ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture
One of the products of globalization in sociolinguistics is the emergence of transnational regimes in language policy, in which power is exercised across boundaries of traditional nation states. This paper engages with audit culture, a transnational policy mechanism which involves the continuous evaluation of nation states’ performance through the use of purportedly neutral, typically quantitative instruments. As achieving broader visibility in p…
Language policy at times of instability and struggle: The impact of fluctuating will and competing agendas on a Slovene language strategy
This article analyses how the drafting and implementation of the Resolution for a National Language Policy Programme 2014–2018, a Slovene language strategy, were influenced by political instability and inter-institutional struggles. By conducting a historical ethnography to trace how different authors contributed to the policy text, and examining these contributions against political shifts and the dynamics of the media discourse surrounding the …
Asians’ and ‘Westerners’: Examining the perception of ‘(non-)native’ migrant teachers of English in Thailand
Existing research has highlighted the complexity of the discourse surrounding ‘(non-)native speaker’, particularly with regard to how teachers are perceived by learners. This complexity has been compounded by globalisation, which has increased transnational mobility of teachers. Thailand has been particularly affected by this, as its population of local teachers has been complemented by a growing yet highly diverse contingent of migrant teachers.…
Analysing voice in language policy: Plurality and conflict in Slovene government documents
Identity and belonging among racialised migrant teachers of English in Thailand
This article examines how inequalities of race impact on the way migrant teachers of English in Thailand articular their identity and belonging to the teaching profession and to the society they live in. There is at present a rather limited body of work on the migration of language teachers, despite the fact that mobility of teachers across conventional borders is part-and-parcel of language education in the globalised era. We report on research …
Echoes of the past, hopes for the future: Examining temporalised schoolscapes in a minority region of Thailand
Recent work on linguistic landscapes at schools (schoolscapes) has highlighted the complex dialogic relationship between the semiotics of public signage in educational spaces and policies seeking to enforce dominant ideologies. In this paper, we discuss the results of research conducted in the Deep South of Thailand, a minority region in which the predominant language, ethnicity and religion are different from the rest of the nation, and which ha…
Dialogicality and Racialized Discourse in Tesol Recruitment
The investigation and unmasking of racial inequality have been one of the cornerstones of the critical turn in TESOL, so much so that a significant body of literature on the topic now exists. Yet, there is often a lack of reflection on the fact that discourse surrounding contentious social issues like race is inherently dialogical in that it consists of constant interaction between different voices (heteroglossia) and ideologies (polyphony). This…
Local problems and a global solution: Examining the recontextualization of Cefr in Thai and Malaysian language policies
The roles of field and capital in negotiating language policy in the Slovene parliament
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of integrating Bourdieu’s notions of field and capital in discursive analyses of language policy. The paper presents an analysis of a debate in a committee session of the Slovene parliament, where different actors negotiated about the contents of a language policy strategy. The study draws on nexus analysis by focussing on the situated nature of discursive actions in particular settings, and p…
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency
The multi/translingual turn in sociolinguistics has highlighted a number of ideological entanglements of foundational concepts, most significantly the way that the notion of 'named languages' as bordered entities is intertwined with ideologies of nation and race. In this article, I consider what the conceptual place for linguistic borders is within a 'trans' framework of language and propose a focus on bordering, social actions in which indexical…
Primary-level English-medium instruction in a minority language community: Any space for the local language
One of the features of the growing prominence of English across the globe is the proliferation of English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes at all levels of education, driven by a neoliberal agenda which places a disproportionate value on English over other languages. While this spread has primarily affected more developed, urban contexts, EMI has also started to spread beyond the borders of large cities and into peripheral, rural areas, includ…
(Im)possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy
This article examines three sets of infrastructures that give shape to the academic knowledge economy, namely: institutional infrastructures (universities and conferences); gate-keeping infrastructures (journals and publishers); and validation infrastructures (competitive assessments of individuals and institutions). We analyse the tensed interplay between critical perspectives in applied linguistics and the influence of academic neoliberalism. W…
Mediating across the sustainable ecology: Researchers and practitioners as collaborating epistemic arbiters in developing a Global Englishes-informed coursebook
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: Expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses
Monolingualism and prescriptivism: The ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century
This paper examines the ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century by focusing on two key emergent themes. It focuses firstly on monolingualism as a key goal for Slovene language planners, starting with their efforts to create a standard language with no German influences in the nineteenth century, and continuing in their work to prevent Serbo-Croat influence in Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. A particular focus of the paper is on how stand…
Analysing voice in language policy: Plurality and conflict in Slovene government documents
Language policy at times of instability and struggle: The impact of fluctuating will and competing agendas on a Slovene language strategy
This article analyses how the drafting and implementation of the Resolution for a National Language Policy Programme 2014–2018, a Slovene language strategy, were influenced by political instability and inter-institutional struggles. By conducting a historical ethnography to trace how different authors contributed to the policy text, and examining these contributions against political shifts and the dynamics of the media discourse surrounding the …
Monolingualism and prescriptivism: The ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century
This paper examines the ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century by focusing on two key emergent themes. It focuses firstly on monolingualism as a key goal for Slovene language planners, starting with their efforts to create a standard language with no German influences in the nineteenth century, and continuing in their work to prevent Serbo-Croat influence in Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. A particular focus of the paper is on how stand…
The roles of field and capital in negotiating language policy in the Slovene parliament
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of integrating Bourdieu’s notions of field and capital in discursive analyses of language policy. The paper presents an analysis of a debate in a committee session of the Slovene parliament, where different actors negotiated about the contents of a language policy strategy. The study draws on nexus analysis by focussing on the situated nature of discursive actions in particular settings, and p…
Moriarty, Máiréad (2015). Globalizing Language Policy and Planning: An Irish Language Perspective
This article reviews Globalizing Language Policy and Planning: An Irish Language Perspective 978-1-137-00560-1£ 109.99
Polyphony and polarization in public discourses: Hegemony and dissent in a Slovene policy debate
Contemporary public discourses are, despite the growing array of technologies and spaces for participation, becoming increasingly characterized by polarization – the formation of two distinct and relatively homogeneous ‘sides’. However, while such polarization may be commonplace, it is not an inherent property of discourse but rather a result of strategic polarizing actions taken by specific actors in order to establish control over the debate. I…
Local problems and a global solution: Examining the recontextualization of Cefr in Thai and Malaysian language policies
Asians’ and ‘Westerners’: Examining the perception of ‘(non-)native’ migrant teachers of English in Thailand
Existing research has highlighted the complexity of the discourse surrounding ‘(non-)native speaker’, particularly with regard to how teachers are perceived by learners. This complexity has been compounded by globalisation, which has increased transnational mobility of teachers. Thailand has been particularly affected by this, as its population of local teachers has been complemented by a growing yet highly diverse contingent of migrant teachers.…
Language policy and linguistic landscape: Identity and struggle in two southern Thai spaces
Analysis of signage has traditionally represented a point of entry into examinations of language policy, with the visibility of different languages seen to be potentially indicative of repression of multilingualism, of struggles between different language regimes or of grass-roots resistance to top-down agendas. This paper argues for a more discursive approach to the nexus between linguistic landscape and language policy in investigations of mult…
Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: Ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture
One of the products of globalization in sociolinguistics is the emergence of transnational regimes in language policy, in which power is exercised across boundaries of traditional nation states. This paper engages with audit culture, a transnational policy mechanism which involves the continuous evaluation of nation states’ performance through the use of purportedly neutral, typically quantitative instruments. As achieving broader visibility in p…
Dialogicality and Racialized Discourse in Tesol Recruitment
The investigation and unmasking of racial inequality have been one of the cornerstones of the critical turn in TESOL, so much so that a significant body of literature on the topic now exists. Yet, there is often a lack of reflection on the fact that discourse surrounding contentious social issues like race is inherently dialogical in that it consists of constant interaction between different voices (heteroglossia) and ideologies (polyphony). This…
Bringing Global Englishes to the ELT classroom: English language learners’ reflections
The increasing use of English as a global language has challenged many the fundamental assumptions underpinning English langugae teaching (ELT). The Global Englishes (GE) paradigm acknowledges linguistic diversity associated with English use today, highlighting the need for this diverse profile of English to be reflected in language classrooms. This article reports on the effect of raising Thai English learners’ awareness of GE on their perceptio…
Linguistic landscape, critical language awareness and critical thinking: Promoting learner agency in discourses about language
in EnglishThere is now increased awareness of the need to challenge ‘common sense’ ideologies of language in education, turning language classrooms into spaces of analysis and liberation. Key to achieving this goal is equipping students with the skills needed to navigate diverse, complex discourses about language (critical thinking), as well as fostering an agentive disposition among them (critical language awareness). This article reports on res…
Language policy from textuality to (re)entextualization: Expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses
Echoes of the past, hopes for the future: Examining temporalised schoolscapes in a minority region of Thailand
Recent work on linguistic landscapes at schools (schoolscapes) has highlighted the complex dialogic relationship between the semiotics of public signage in educational spaces and policies seeking to enforce dominant ideologies. In this paper, we discuss the results of research conducted in the Deep South of Thailand, a minority region in which the predominant language, ethnicity and religion are different from the rest of the nation, and which ha…
Primary-level English-medium instruction in a minority language community: Any space for the local language
One of the features of the growing prominence of English across the globe is the proliferation of English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes at all levels of education, driven by a neoliberal agenda which places a disproportionate value on English over other languages. While this spread has primarily affected more developed, urban contexts, EMI has also started to spread beyond the borders of large cities and into peripheral, rural areas, includ…
(Im)possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy
This article examines three sets of infrastructures that give shape to the academic knowledge economy, namely: institutional infrastructures (universities and conferences); gate-keeping infrastructures (journals and publishers); and validation infrastructures (competitive assessments of individuals and institutions). We analyse the tensed interplay between critical perspectives in applied linguistics and the influence of academic neoliberalism. W…
Agency, authority and universality in the promotion of global ELT textbook series
There is at present much focus in ELT on describing and promoting teacher and learner agency. However, ELT as a professional field is concurrently characterised by an increasing orientation toward authoritative texts, particularly those imbued with authority at the transnational level. Global textbooks are a notable example, since they, along with global language testing and language policy, play an increasingly important role in determining teac…
Identity and belonging among racialised migrant teachers of English in Thailand
This article examines how inequalities of race impact on the way migrant teachers of English in Thailand articular their identity and belonging to the teaching profession and to the society they live in. There is at present a rather limited body of work on the migration of language teachers, despite the fact that mobility of teachers across conventional borders is part-and-parcel of language education in the globalised era. We report on research …
(Trans)languaging, power, and resistance: Bordering as discursive agency
The multi/translingual turn in sociolinguistics has highlighted a number of ideological entanglements of foundational concepts, most significantly the way that the notion of 'named languages' as bordered entities is intertwined with ideologies of nation and race. In this article, I consider what the conceptual place for linguistic borders is within a 'trans' framework of language and propose a focus on bordering, social actions in which indexical…
Failed’? Under-performing learners’ perspectives on Thailand’s English language policies
Blending Linguistic and Social Entrepreneurship on Online English Tutors’ Facebook Profiles
A key phenomenon in contemporary language education is its spread beyond conventional spaces, visible through different forms of shadow education—teaching and learning organized in parallel to established, state‐regulated structures. While traditional shadow education continues to play a role, a more recent trend is for online informal education, particularly on social media. A key challenge for online shadow educators is to achieve visibility in…
Mediating across the sustainable ecology: Researchers and practitioners as collaborating epistemic arbiters in developing a Global Englishes-informed coursebook
Constructing an ‘international’ environment: Language policy as discourse management in schoolscapes
Sociology (23 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (16 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Language policy (10 works) · Law (10 works)