Dr Kristof Savski

Dr Kristof Savski

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Teaching and Research Supervision

Courses

• Current Issues in Applied English Language Studies
• Sociolinguistics of English as a Global Language
• Translation and Intercultural Communication
• Transformative English Language Teaching

Theses supervised

• Identity in Online English Language Tutoring on Facebook (MA)
• Linguistic Landscape of Education Spaces: A Case of International Schools in Hat Yai, Thailand (MA)
• Discourse Strategies in Promotional Materials of Global ELT Textbook Series (MA)
• Perspectives towards Schoolscapes at two Islamic Schools in the Deep South of Thailand (MA)
• Addressing Learners’ Attitudes toward English Language Variation through a Global Englishes Awareness Raising Program (PhD)
• Using Linguistic Landscape as a Pedagogical Tool to Develop Critical Thinking Skills of Bhutanese Learners of English (MA)
• The Implementation of English-Medium Instruction in a Multilingual Context in the Deep South of Thailand (MA)
• The Beliefs of Students, Parents and Thai teachers toward International English Teachers: A Study of Three Schools in Southern Thailand (MA)

Publications

Books

Savski, K. (2024). Language Policy in Action. Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

Savski, K. (2025). English (un) Bordered: Five Principles for Reflective Translanguaging in Southeast Asian ELT. RELC Journal.

Prabjandee, D., & Savski, K. (2025). Mediating across the sustainable ecology: Researchers and practitioners as collaborating epistemic arbiters in developing a Global Englishes-informed coursebook. System, 131, 103639.

Savski, K., & Rukthong, A. (2025). ‘Failed’? Under-performing learners’ perspectives on Thailand’s English language policies. Current Issues in Language Planning.

Ayae, A. & Savski, K. (2024). Echoes of the past, hopes for the future: examining temporalized schoolscapes in a minority region of Thailand. International Journal of Multilingualism, 21 (3), 1349-1368.

Gablasova, D., Harding, L., Bottini, R., Brezina, V., Ren, H. S., Iamartino, G., Li, Y., Liu, T., Poggesi, L., Savski, K., Toomaneejinda, A., & Zottola, A. (2024). Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(3), 100140.

Savski, K. (2024). (Trans)languaging, power and resistance: bordering as discursive agency. Language in Society, 53 (3), 371-393.

Savski, K. & Comprendio, L. J. E. V. (2024). Identity and belonging among racialized migrant teachers in Thailand. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 45 (6), 2269-2281.

Samarn, N. & Savski, K. (2024). Agency, authority and universality in the promotion of global ELT textbook series. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 37 (4), 544-561.

Savski, K. (2024). Language policy from textuality to (re) entextualization: expanding the toolkit for discursive analyses. Language Policy, 23(1), 53-73.

Soler, J., Erdocia, I., & Savski, K. (2023). (Im) possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy. Language, Culture and Society, 5(2), 167-181.

Wangdi, J., & Savski, K. (2023). Linguistic landscape, critical thinking and critical language awareness: promoting learner agency in discourses about language. Language Awareness, 32 (3), 443-464.

Widiawati, D. & Savski, K. (2023). Primary-level English-medium instruction in a minority language community: any space for the local language?. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (4), 275-287.

Savski, K. (2023). CEFR and the ELT practitioner: empowerment or enforcement?. ELT Journal, 77 (1), 62-71.

Savski, K. (2023). Negotiating hegemonies in language policy: ideological synergies in media recontextualizations of audit culture. Current Issues in Language Planning, 24 (1), 1-20.

Jindapitak, N., Teo, A., & Savski, K. (2022). Bringing Global Englishes to the ELT Classroom: English language learners’ reflections. Asian Englishes, 24 (3), 279-293.

Jindapitak, N., Teo, A., & Savski, K. (2022). The impacts of raising learners’ awareness of global Englishes on their attitudes toward English language variation. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching [e-FLT], 19 (1), 20-34.

Savski, K. & Prabjandee, D. (2022). CEFR: A global framework for Global Englishes? TESL-EJ, 26 (3), 1-15. [Invited contribution to a special issue on ‘Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Language Education’, edited by Meng Huat Chau, Anita Lie, George M. Jacobs and Willy A. Renandya]

Savski, K. (2021). Dialogicality and racialized discourse in TESOL recruitment. TESOL Quarterly, 55 (3), 795-816.

Savski, K. (2021). CEFR as language policy: opportunities and challenges for local agency in a global era. The English Teacher, 50 (2), 60-70. [Invited contribution to a special 50^th anniversary issue, edited by Stefanie Pillai and Raja Nor Safinas Raja Harun]

Savski, K. (2021). Language policy and linguistic landscape: diaspora identity and globalization in two southern Thai spaces. Linguistic Landscape, 7 (2), 128–150. [Part of a special issue on ‘Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World’, edited by Thom Huebner]

Savski, K. (2020). Local problems and a global solution: examining the recontextualization of CEFR in Thai and Malaysian language policies. Language Policy, 19 (4), 527-547.

Comprendio, L. J. E. V., & Savski, K. (2020). ‘Asians’ and ‘Westerners’: examining the perception of (non-)native migrant teachers of English in Thailand. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41 (8), 673-685.

Savski, K. (2020). Polyphony and polarization in public discourses: hegemony and dissent in a Slovene policy debate. Critical Discourse Studies, 17 (4), 377-393.

Savski, K. (2019). Putting the plurilingual/pluricultural back into CEFR: reflecting on policy reform in Thailand and Malaysia. Journal of Asia TEFL, 16 (2), 644-652.

Jindapitak, N., Teo, A., & Savski, K. (2018). The influence of standard language ideology on evaluations of English language variation in the domain of English language teaching. Thoughts, 26-44.

Savski, K. (2018). Monolingualism and prescriptivism: the ecology of Slovene in the 20^th Century. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39 (2), 124-136.

Savski, K. (2018). The roles of field and capital in negotiating language policy in the Slovene parliament. Journal of Language and Politics, 17 (1), 24-45.

Savski, K. (2017). Language policy at times of instability and struggle: The impact of fluctuating will and competing agendas on a Slovene language strategy. Current Issues in Language Planning, 18 (3), 283-302.

Savski, K. (2016). Analysing voice in language policy: plurality and conflict in Slovene government documents. Language Policy, 15 (4), 505-524.

Book chapters

Snodin, N. S., Sameephet, B. & Savski, K. (2024). English in Thailand. In: A. Moody (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of South East Asian Englishes (pp. 311-326). Oxford University Press.

Savski, K. (2022). Consumerism as lingua franca in ELT?: ideologies in a Thai textbook series. In: A. Jalalian Daghigh & J. Mohd Jan (Eds.), Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South (pp.91-104). Palgrave.

Savski, K. (2021). Negotiating boundaries while becoming a TESOL participant in southern Thailand. In: R. Jain, B. Yazan, & S. Canagarajah (Eds.), Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching (pp. 227-239). Multilingual Matters.

Savski, K. (2020). Migrants from Other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and Future. In: M. Rheindorf & R. Wodak (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on migration control: language policy, identity, and belonging (pp. 17-40). Multilingual Matters.

Savski, K. (2019). Historical ethnography of policy discourse: examining the genesis of a language strategy in Slovenia. In: N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (pp. 193-215). Edward Elgar.

Wodak, R. & Savski, K. (2018). Critical discourse-ethnographic approaches to language policy. In: J. Tollefson & M. Pérez-Milans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (pp. 93-112). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Savski, K. (2017). Policymaking: Documents and Laws. In: B. Forchtner & R. Wodak, (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics (pp. 355-367). Routledge.

Savski, K. (2016). State language policy in time and space: meaning, transformation, recontextualisation. In: E. Barakos & J. W. Unger (Eds.), Discursive Approaches to Language Policy (pp. 51-70). Palgrave.