Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam
Head of Dept. Language Education
Department of Language Education
University of the Western Cape
South Africa
Biography
Prof. Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Madras, India, as well as an MA in (Linguistics) TESOL from the University of Surrey, UK, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, U.K.
Research Interest
His research interests include response-centred reading/writing pedagogies, literature-based language pedagogies, constructivism in EIL, second language advocacy, narratives in language education and text-based approaches to academic and social literacy practices. His epistemic stance is directed at formulating and fostering naratives of voice, agency and inter subjectivity that are crucial to research into language teacher and literacy education. He has supervised a number of Masters and PhD students in addition to co authoring scholarly publications with them.
Publications
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Pfeiffer, Verbra, and Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam. "Exploration of self-expression to improve L2 writing skills." Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir Taalaanleer 32, no. 2 (2016): 95-108.
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Pfeiffer, V., & Sivasubramaniam, S. (2016). Exploration of self-expression to improve L2 writing skills. Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir Taalaanleer, 32(2), 95-108.
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Pfeiffer, Verbra, and Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam. "Exploration of self-expression to improve L2 writing skills." Per Linguam: a Journal of Language Learning= Per Linguam: Tydskrif vir Taalaanleer 32.2 (2016): 95-108.
