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 Education

Ph.D. English Linguistics (in progress)

NUML, Islamabad

MS English Linguistics and Literature (2017)

“Identifying Students’ Learning Difficulties in English at Tertiary Level at Karakoram Postgraduate Institute Skardu”

COMSATS University, Islamabad

M.A English ELT (2008)

“Exploiting Pictures from The Textbooks to Teach English Language”

NUML, Islamabad

BAML (2006)

Japanese and Persian

NUML, Islamabad

Area of Interest

Language endangerment, Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, ELT

Academic Positions

• Serving as a Lecturer (Linguistics) at University of Baltistan, Skardu, the then KIU Skardu Campus, since March 2012 to date.
• English instructor at English Access Microscholarship Program, Skardu 2010 – 2011
• Visiting faculty at F.G Degree College for Boys, Skardu for a semester.
• Visiting faculty at F.G Degree College for Women, Skardu for a semester

Administrative Positions

• HoD Languages and Cultural Studies (May 2017 to September 2020)
• Deputy Registrar (April 2018 to date)
• Convener Library Affairs (June 2017 to September 2020)

Conference Presentations

• "Politics of Translation: A critical discourse analysis of Saadad Hassan Manto's Toba Tek Singh" in the First National Conference on Linguistic Challenges in Regional Integration and Globalization at Fast University Lahore (January 2020)
• “Academic input on Balti language” Presented in National Assembly Islamabad, Pakistan (March 2014)
• “Linguistic aggression and the survival of Balti language” in a seminar on "Documentation, Preservation and Revitalization of Regional Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan" at KIU Gilgit and at KIU Skardu Campus (December 2014)

Publications

            Books

• 2021 The Vanishing Words of Wisdom: An anthology of folktales of Gilgit- 

Baltistan (rendered services as the Chief editor)

• 2016-19 Modern Social Studies for Baltistan 4^th, 5^th and 6^th (Reviewed and

contributed)

            Research Articles

• Arif, M., Khan, H. K., & Hussain, S. (2021). Teachers’ experiences of working under the leadership of women principles at secondary schools in remote Pakistan: A qualitative inquiry. Research Journal of Social Sciences & Economics Review 2(1), pp. 481-487.
• Khan, H. K., Hussain, S., & Alam, M. (2021). Ethical considerations in social sciences: The dilemmas of informed consent. Research Journal of Social Sciences & Economics Review 2(2), pp. 189-195.
• Hussain, S., & Khan, H. K. (2021). Tanslanguaging in Pakistani higher education: A neglected perspective! Journal of Educational Research & Social Science Review, 1(3), 16-24.
• Khan, H. K., & Hussain, S. (2021). Fighting COVID-19 and Continuing the Education: A Case Study of the University of Baltistan, Skardu. Journal of Educational Research & Social Science Review, 1(3), 1-9.
• Hussain, S., & Kashifa, A. (2021). A Comparative Study of Lexical Choices and Syntactic Structures in the Editorials of The News and Dawn. VFAST Transactions on Education and Social Sciences

Trainings and Workshops

• November 2021 Language Documentation and Preservation (rendered services as a

                             resource person in a three-day workshop arranged by FLI)                            

• January 2020 Real-time Delphi (Arranged by AGAHI Pakistan)
• May 2018 A three-day workshop on “Pedagogical, Andragogical and

                             Research Skills” funded by HEC

• July 2017 Departmental Self-Assessment Report (arranged by QEC)
• July 2011         Access Summer Institute (arranged by U.S Embassy,

iEARN   Pakistan and Society for International Education in

Karachi) Training for teaching English

• Sep to Nov 2010 Online Course arranged by American Embassy

Integrating the Internet into the Classroom 

• July 2010            Summer Camp (arranged by U.S Embassy in Islamabad)

Training for teaching English

Awards

• Third position in Japanese Speech Contest (2006, NUML Islamabad)

Languages

• Balti
• Urdu
• English
• Japanese (elementary)
• Persian (elementary)