M. Obaidul Hamid
List of John Benjamins publications in which M. Obaidul Hamid is involved.
2025 International students as language managers: Self-managing linguistic insecurity in Australian higher education Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:2, pp. 248–272 | Article
Many studies have reported language problems faced by international students in cross-cultural study-abroad settings. The present study investigated Chinese international students’ linguistic insecurity during their study-abroad in Australia, and the strategies that they deployed to manage this.… read more
2024 Developmental corpus insights into the writing life of a primary school child in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:1, pp. 27–50 | Article
Children’s writing development is a matter of concern for Australian and other education systems. Factors related to the nature of writing as a literate skill, school writing pedagogy, and diminishing role of writing in a screen-dominant environment may account for this educational concern. What… read more
2022 Problematising ASEAN language policy: Is the ASEAN Way the only way? Language Problems and Language Planning 46:1, pp. 55–77 | Article
In a world where linguistic and cultural diversity is increasingly celebrated, opting for English as the sole working language, as stipulated in the ASEAN Charter, on pragmatic grounds, has made ASEAN an interesting case study from the language policy and planning (LPP) perspective. ASEAN’s LPP… read more
2020 Language choice in peer interactions and the role of peers in minority language maintenance: A case study from Vietnam Language Problems and Language Planning 44:2, pp. 123–145 | Article
Drawing on the positioning theory and the conditions for language use, this article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in interactions with their same-ethnicity and majority peers, focusing particularly on their communication motives underlying this choice. Findings… read more
2016 Language, migration and social wellbeing: A narrative inquiry into the lives of low English proficiency Bangladeshi migrants in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:1, pp. 8–30 | Article
This article explores language experiences of three Bangladeshi migrant workers with low English proficiency in Australia through narrative inquiry. The narrative of each participant presents insights into the ways in which these migrants navigated through their work and social life, and… read more
2016 Foreign language policies in Asia and Australia in the Asian century Language Problems and Language Planning 40:1, pp. 26–46 | Article
This article provides a comparative analysis of foreign language policies in Asia and Australia with reference to policy contexts, motivations and processes. The analysis is specifically motivated by the recent publication of the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper that represents… read more
2016 Language education policy enactment and individual agency: The cauldron of conflicts in policy positions in implementing the Common European Framework of Reference for languages in Vietnam Language Problems and Language Planning 40:1, pp. 69–84 | Article
This article explores language planning and policy from the perspective of individual agency and its embodiments in the process of implementing an English language education policy ensemble at a public university in Vietnam. The policy exemplifies the influence of globalized standards on local… read more
2014 The problematic of second language errors Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:2, pp. 123–144 | Article
The significance of errors in explicating Second Language Acquisition (SLA) processes led to the growth of error analysis in the 1970s which has since maintained its prominence in English as a second/foreign language (L2) research. However, one problem with this research is errors are often taken… read more
2014 Public-private domain distinction as an aspect of LPP frameworks: A case study of Bangladesh Language Problems and Language Planning 38:2, pp. 192–210 | Article
While macro-level language policy and planning (LPP) that is done mainly by governments still dominates thinking in the field, limitations of this focus have been demonstrated by recent broader and more focused conceptualizations of LPP. For instance, global LPP, particularly for languages of… read more