Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim

University of Malaya
Applied Linguistics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2022 – May 2022

Last Update: 31.08.2022

Curriculum Vitae

Azirah Hashim is Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. She has held several posts at the university including Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute, Director of the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism, Dean of the Humanities Research Cluster and Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Her research interests include Language Contact in Southeast Asia, English in ASEAN and Higher Education in ASEAN. Her recent publications include English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Transformation of Language Habitats, Routledge co-authored with Gerhard Leitner (2021) and Asia and Europe in the 21st Century: New Anxieties, New Opportunities, Routledge co-edited with Rahul Mishra and Anthony Milner (2021). Azirah is President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) from August 2021 to 2024. She is Humboldt Ambassador Scientist, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2021 to 2024.

Selected Publications

Azirah Hashim and Gerhard Leitner. 2021. English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Transformation of Language Habitats. Routledge: Oxford/New York.
Rahul Mishra, Azirah Hashim and Anthony Milner. (Eds.) 2021. Asia and Europe in the 21st Century New Anxieties, New Opportunities. Routledge: Oxford/New York.
Miandy Munusamy and Azirah Hashim. 2021. An analysis of the ASEM Education Process and its role in higher education. European Journal of Education 9(1), 87-101.
Azirah Hashim. 2020. Malaysian English. In Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha and Andy Kirkpatrick.(Eds.). The Handbook of Asian Englishes. John Wiley& Sons: New Jersey.
Azirah Hashim and Aliyyah Nuha Azman. 2018. Sustainable Development Goals and Capacity Building in Higher Education in ASEAN. In Holzhacker, Ronald (ed.) National and Regional Approaches to the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN. Brill, Leiden, 125-142.

FRIAS Project

Internationalisation of Higher Education and English: Language Policies and Practices in universities in ASEAN

The internationalisation of higher education in ASEAN has led to the adoption of internationalisation policies and practices that include efforts to attract international students, engage in inter-institutional partnerships, and offer courses using English as the medium of instruction. This research examines language polices and practices of leading universities in the different ASEAN countries and implications for language in education. It reviews papers and reports on language policies in ASEAN with a special focus on institutional language policies and practices. A survey of language policies and practices, adapting the survey done for LERU universities in Europe (Kortmann 2019), will be carried out with a selection of universities in ASEAN. While the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its implications for future practices remain to be precisely determined, the study will confirm that there is a need for universities to implement, or look again, at their language policies with regard to the needs of local and international staff and students, and the role and use of English in ASEAN within multilingual contexts.