
Dr. Anwar Ahmed
Assistant Professor
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Research and teaching areas:
Critical literacies/pedagogies
Digital literacies
Second language reading and writing
Teacher Education
Biography
Anwar Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Language Education as Anti-oppressive Transformation in Multilingual Settings in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC’s Faculty of Education. He completed PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto. Anwar’s recent book is Exploring Silences in the Field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). His current project is “Arguing for Democratic Citizenship: An Exploration of Multilingual Students’ Argumentative Writing in English as an Additional Language.”
Selected Publications

Morgan, B. & Ahmed, A. (2023)
Teaching the Nation(s): A Duoethnography on Affect and Citizenship in a Content-Based EAP Program. TESOL J. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3213

Ahmed, A. (2023)
Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 60, 100969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2023.100969

Ahmed, A., & Morgan, B. (2021)
Postmemory and multilingual identities in English language teaching: a duoethnography. The Language Learning Journal, 49(4), 483-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2021.1906301

Ahmed, A. (2019)
How language teachers address the crisis of praxis in educational research. Oxford Review of Education, 45(6), 715-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2019.1612342

Ahmed, A. (2016)
Why critical literacy should turn to “the affective turn”: Making a case for critical affective literacy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(3), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1042429