Tariq Elyas

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About Tariq Elyas

Prof. Tariq Elyas is a full-tenured professor of Applied Linguistics at King Abdulaziz University, KAU (Saudi Arabia). He holds an MA in English Literature (USA) and a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Australia), an LLM in International Law and Human Rights (UK), and a Post-Doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Newcastle University via the British Commonwealth Council (UK). Prof. Elyas’s areas of interest include global English, teacher identity, policy reform, the media, and women studies in the Middle East. His research papers have appeared in top-tier research journals, such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Digest of Middle East Studies, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, Semiotica, International Journal for Semiotics of Law, World Englishes, Asian Englishes, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Cambridge Journal of Education, and ELT Journal. Prof. Elyas has been awarded the Bundey Prize for English Verse (Australia), Travel Writing Fellowship (USA), Cambridge Gulf Research Award (UK), Year-Emerald Publisher (UK), Chevening Fellowship (UK), EU-GCC Relations Project Award (Belgium), Post-doctoral Summer Research (PDSR) Program-British Council Award (UK), and Best Supervisor Award in the Humanities & Social Sciences Track-KAU in 2018 and 2020 (Saudi Arabia). Prof. Elyas has Guest-Edited four special issues: 1) ‘World Englishes in MENA’ (with Ahmar Mahboob) in World Englishes; 2) ‘Gender in Language Education’ (with Handoyo Puji Widodo) in Sexuality & Culture; 3) ‘English Language Education: A Critical Global Englishes Perspective’ (with Fan Fang and Handoyo Puji Widodo) in Asian Englishes; and 4) ‘Language Capital and the Medium of Instruction: Issues of Pedagogy, Economics and Political Feasibility’ (with Donia Bouhlila) in International Journal of Educational Development. His latest book is an edited volume (co-edited with Connie Mitchell and Ali Al-Hoorie) entitled Research-Based Trends in Language Teaching and Learning in Saudi Arabia (Springer). Prof. Elyas has been the most cited author in Saudi Arabia in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Education, 2014-2024. Prof. Elyas has served as an external examiner for (28) PhD candidates from Australia, China, Malaysia, the UAE, the UK, and Saudi Arabia. Prof. Elyas has worked in numerous educational posts in Australia, the UK, the USA, and Saudi Arabia. Currently, Prof. Elyas has been assigned as an Associate Editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of World Englishes-MENA Region.