Mohammad Mosiur Rahman is a PhD candidate at the Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He serves as a senior lecturer (on study leave) at the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). His interdisciplinary experience in the fields of sociolinguistics and TESOL has assisted in the development of his research and teaching skills. Mosiur's current research is centered on critical theories of language, power, and social class. It focuses on language policy, ideologies, agency, and stakeholder identities. He is devoted to promoting anti-neoliberal and decolonial education, with a special emphasis on the issues of inequality that learners, instructors, and the community encounter as a result of language education policy.
Mosiur has disseminated his ideas through scholarly publication in international and prestigious regional peer-reviewed journals including Applied Linguistics Review, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Teacher Education, English Today, The Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Asian Englishes, English Teaching & Learning, The Journal of Asia TEFL, Issues in Educational Research, 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Open Linguistics. As a member of the Editorial Boards of Computers and Composition (Elsevier), Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (Universiti Sains Malaysia Press), and Crossings: A Journal of English Studies (ULAB Press), he serves the broader community of applied linguistics and education researchers and practitioners.
Mosiur was awarded the prestigious Postgraduate Research Scholarship by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to pursue his PhD. He was also one of two awardees of the Universiti Sains Malaysia Vice-Chancellor Award in 2019, and he received the university's second-highest scholarship for research students, the Universiti Sains Malaysia Fellowship, in 2018. Moreover, in 2016, while pursuing his MA in Applied Linguistics (research) at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, he received the Graduate Research Assistance Scheme. He has received several institutional-level awards for research and publications in top-tier journals.
PhD Candidate (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2023-)
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics (Discontinued, 2018-2021)
MA by Research in Applied Linguistics
BA in English
Sociolinguistics , TESOL
Awards and scholarships:
Universiti Sains Malaysia Vice-Chancellor Award (September 2019-September 2021). The Vice-Chancellor’s Award is the highest scholarship/award of the university- is given to exceptional PhD students at USM after undergoing a stringent screening process.
(http://www.admissions.usm.my/index.php/postgraduate/financial-assistance/vice-chancellor-award)
Universiti Sains Malaysia Fellowship (September 2018- August 2019): This is the second highest scholarship for the outstanding postgraduate research student in Universiti Sains Malaysia. The requirement of the award is research output in high impact journals indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science.
(http://www.ips.usm.my/index.php/financial-assistance/usm-fellowship-scheme)
Graduate Research Assistantship Scheme (2016-2017): This is the third highest scholarship for the postgraduate research student in Universiti Sains Malaysia. Under this scholarship, a candidate must contribute to the overall growth of the school in the form of research output or any of the assign work by the Dean’s office.
(http://www.ips.usm.my/index.php/financial-assistance/usm-graduate-assistant-scheme)
Rahman, M. M., & Hu, G. (2025). From hypernationalism to neoliberalism: A multi-level policy analysis of English medium instructional practices, management, and ideologies in Bangladeshi (private) higher education. English Today, 1-6. [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Nahiyan, S., Al Amin, M., & Rahman, M. M. (2025). Academic literacy development and EAP in English medium instruction: A needs-based inquiry at a Bangladeshi private university. Training, Language and Culture, 9(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.22363/2521-442X-2025-9-1-53-64 [SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Islam, M. S., Karim, A., Singh, M. K. M., & Hu, G. (2024). Ideologies of teachers and students towards meso-level English-medium instruction policy and translanguaging in the STEM classroom at a Malaysian university. Applied Linguistics Review. [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Kabilan, M. K., Karim, A., Sultana, S., & Rahman, M. M. (2024). Preservice Teachers’ Reflecting on Reflections of Critical Incidents: Effects on Professional Development and Identity Construction. Journal of Teacher Education, 00224871241286088. [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., & Singh, M. K. M. (2023). The relationship between oral corrective feedback beliefs, practices, and influence of prior language learning experience of EFL teachers: multiple case studies. Education Research International, 2023(1), 6681434.
Karim, A., Kabilan, M. K., Ahmed, Z., Reshmin, L., & Rahman, M. M. (2023). The medium of instruction in Bangladeshi higher education institutions: Bangla, English, or both?. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 22(3), 232-246. [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Reshmin, L., Amin, E., & Karim, A. (2022). The Influence of Apprenticeship of Observation on Business Teacher’s Beliefs and Attitudes Towards English-Medium Instruction: A Case Study. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 30(1) I71 - 189. [Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Malaysia] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Islam, M. S., Hasan, M. K., & Singh, M. K. M. (2021). English medium instruction: Beliefs and attitudes of university lecturers in Bangladesh and Malaysia. Issues in Educational Research, 31(4), 1213-1230. [Western Australian Institute for Educational Research, Australia] [ESCI & SCOPUS].
Rahman, M. M., & Singh, M. K. M. (2021). English and Malay language policy and planning in Malaysia. Training, Language and Culture, 5(4), 36-46. [RUDN University Press, Russia] [SCOPUS]
Rahman, M.M., Singh, M.K.M. (2021). English Medium university STEM teachers’ and students’ ideologies in constructing content knowledge through translanguaging. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-19. [Taylor & Francis, UK] [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Islam, M. S., Hasan, M. K., Sultana, S., Karim, A., & Rahman, M. M. (2021). English language assessment in Bangladesh today: principles, practices, and problems. Language Testing in Asia, 11(1), 1-21. [SpringerNature, Germany] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M.M., Singh, M.K.M. (2021). Complex dynamic systems of language teacher cognitions: A case study from Bangladesh. Issues in Educational Research, 31(1), 241-254. [Western Australian Institute for Educational Research, Australia] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Karim, A., Kabilan, M. K., Ahmed, Z., Reshmin, L., & Rahman, M. M. (2021). The Medium of Instruction in Bangladeshi Higher Education Institutions: Bangla, English, or Both?. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 1-15. [Taylor & Francis, UK] [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., & Singh, M. K. M. (2020). Language ideology of English-medium instruction in higher education: A case study from Bangladesh. English Today, 36(4), 40-46. [Cambridge University Press, UK] [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Singh, M. K. M., Fersi, S. (2020). Multiple Case Studies on the Impact of Apprenticeship of Observation on Novice EFL Teachers’ Cognition and Practices. Mextesol Journal.44(4), 1-11. SCOPUS [MEXTESOL Association, Mexico, Mexico] [SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., & Singh, M. K. M. (2020). A Synthesis of Oral Corrective Feedback Literature: Theoretical Underpinning, Types, Linguistics Focus and Timing. The Journal of AsiaTEFL, 17(3), 1093-1101. [Asia TEFL, South Korea] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Singh, M. K. M., Johan, M., & Ahmed, Z. (2020). English medium instruction ideology, management and practices: A case study of Bangladeshi private university. English Teaching and Learning, 44(1), 44(1), 61-79. [SpringerNature, Germany] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Hasan, M. K., & Rahman, M. M. (2020). Analytic relations versus syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of vocabulary depth knowledge: Their correlation and prediction to academic reading comprehension of EFL learners. Open Linguistics, 6(1), 357-371. [Walter de Gruyter, Germany] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Singh, M. K. M., & Karim, A. (2020). Distinctive medium of instruction ideologies in public and private universities in Bangladesh. Asian Englishes, 22(2), 125-142. [Taylor & Francis, UK] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Islam, M. S., Karim, A., Chowdhury, T. A., Rahman, M. M., Seraj, P. M. I., & Singh, M. K. M. (2019). English language teaching in Bangladesh today: Issues, outcomes, and implications. Language Testing in Asia.1(9). [SpringerNature, Germany] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Johan, M., Selim, S. M. M., Singh, M. K. M., & Shahed, F. H. (2019). Teachers’ beliefs and practices of implementing secondary English curriculum reform in Bangladesh: A phenomenological study. Journal of Asia TEFL, 16(2), 591–608. [Asia TEFL, South Korea] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Karim, A., Ahmed, Z., Shahed, F. H., Rahman, M. M., & Mohamed, A. R. (2019). Challenges affecting the implementation of £50 million in-service training program for English teachers in Bangladesh. Qualitative Report, 24(10), 2457-2485. [Nova SouthEastern University Press, USA] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., & Pandian, A. (2018). A critical investigation of English language teaching in Bangladesh: Unfulfilled expectations after two decades of communicative language teaching. English Today, 34(3), 43-49. [Cambridge University Press, UK] [SSCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M. M., Singh, M. K. M., & Karim, A. (2018). English medium instruction innovation in higher education: Evidence from Asian contexts. Journal of Asia TEFL, 15(4), 1156-1164. [Asia TEFL, South Korea] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M.M., & Pandian, A. (2018). Chaotic English Language Policy and Planning in Bangladesh: Areas of Apprehension. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 26(2). 893-908. [Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Malaysia] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Karim, A., Shahed, F. H., Rahman, M. M., & Mohamed, A. R. (2018). Revisiting Innovations in ELT through Online Classes: An Evaluation of the Approaches of 10 Minute School. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 20(1), 248-266. [Anadolu University Press, Turkey] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M.M, Pandian, A. & Singh, M.K.M. (2018). Teachers’ Factors Affecting the Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching Curriculum in Secondary Schools in Bangladesh. Qualitative Report, 23(5).1106-1126. [Nova SouthEastern University Press, USA] [ESCI & SCOPUS]
Rahman, M.M, Singh, M.K.M., &Pandian, A. (2018). Exploring ESL Teachers Belief and Classroom Practice of CLT: A Case Study. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), 295-310. [Eskisehir Osmangazi University Press, Turkey] [ESCI & SCOPUS]