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  1. Illuminating the shadows: the role of private supplementary tutoring on student math performance in PISA 2022

    Article • Large-scale Assessments in Education, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  2. Three decades of research on the model of investment in applied linguistics: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda

    Article • Language Culture and Curriculum, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  3. Understanding secondary school students’ challenges, language learning strategies and future selves at highly selective EMI schools in Kazakhstan

    Article • AILA Review, November 2024, John Benjamins

    Anas Hajar

  4. Understanding English medium instruction (EMI) policy from the perspectives of STEM content teachers in Kazakhstan

    Article • TESOL Journal, July 2024, Wiley

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  5. Five decades of language learning strategy research: a bibliometric review and research agenda

    Article • Language Learning Journal, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  6. Multilingual Selves and Motivations for Learning Languages other than English in Asian Contexts

    Article • May 2024, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Anas Hajar

  7. From policy dumping to a participatory framework: re-envisioning the English medium instruction policy in Kazakhstan’s mainstream schools

    Article • Asian Englishes, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  8. African international students’ challenges, investment and identity development at a highly selective EMI university in Kazakhstan

    Article • Language and Education, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  9. Learning in the shadows: exploring primary school students and their parents’ perceptions of fee-charging private tutoring in Kazakhstan

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  10. Being participatory: employing geographic lenses to understand young people’s experiences of private supplementary tutoring in Uzbekistan

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  11. Primary School Students’ Experiences of English Private Tutoring in Uzbekistan Using Participatory Methods

    Article • The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  12. Mapping research on International Student Mobilities in higher education: Achievements and the agenda ahead

    Article • International Journal of Educational Research, January 2024, Elsevier

    Anas Hajar

  13. Policy from below: STEM teachers’ response to EMI policy and policy-making in the mainstream schools in Kazakhstan

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  14. From colonial celebration to postcolonial performativity: ‘guilty multilingualism’ and ‘performative agency’ in the English Medium Instruction (EMI) context

    Article • Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  15. Obituary for Zoltán Dörnyei (1960–2022): a bibliometric mapping of his publications

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  16. Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan

    Article • Central Asian Survey, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  17. Correction to: A bibliometric mapping of shadow education research: achievements, limitations, and the future

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  18. Understanding challenges, investment, and strategic language use of postgraduate students in an English-medium university in Kazakhstan

    Article • Asian Englishes, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Syed A Manan, Anas Hajar

  19. Coming out of the shadows: investing in English private tutoring at a transition point in Kazakhstan’s education system during the global pandemic

    Article • Language Learning Journal, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  20. Throwing light on fee-charging tutoring during the global pandemic in Kazakhstan: implications for the future of higher education

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  21. Private Supplementary Tutoring at a Transition Point in Kazakhstan’s Education System: Its Scale, Nature, and Policy Implications

    Article • European Education, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  22. English Private Tutoring at a Transition Point in Morocco’s Education System: Its Scale, Nature, and Effectiveness

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  23. Investing in English Private Tutoring to Achieve an Ideal Multilingual Self: Evidence from Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  24. Private Tutoring: A Global Phenomenon in ELT

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  25. EMI in Central Asia

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  26. International Perspectives on English Private Tutoring

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  27. Private Tutoring in English: Lessons Learnt and Ways Forward

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  28. Promoting the Well-Being of Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children Within and Beyond the School Gates: Insights from the United Kingdom

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  29. Critical reflexive phenomenography in a study abroad context

    Article • December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  30. “Disinvestment” in Learners’ Multilingual Identities: English Learning, Imagined Identities, and Neoliberal Subjecthood in Pakistan

    Article • Journal of Language Identity & Education, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  31. Shadow Education in the Middle East

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  32. Conclusion

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  33. Educational and social impact

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  34. Global perspectives on shadow education

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  35. Introduction

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  36. Middle East contexts

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  37. Policy implications

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  38. Scale and nature of shadow education

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  39. Complexity of the Contexts: Features of Private Tutoring and Units for Comparison in the GCC Countries of the Middle East

    Article • ECNU Review of Education, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Anas Hajar

  40. English as an index of neoliberal globalization: The linguistic landscape of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    Article • Language Sciences, July 2022, Elsevier

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  41. Emergency remote English language teaching and learning: Voices of primary school students and teachers in Kazakhstan

    Article • Review of Education, June 2022, Wiley

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  42. A bibliometric mapping of shadow education research: achievements, limitations, and the future

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  43. Young children’s perceptions of emergency online English learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from Kazakhstan

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar, Dr. Syed A Manan

  44. The ideal multilingual self of individuals in conflict-affected situations

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  45. Developing Intercultural Citizenship in a Study Abroad Context: Voices of International Postgraduate Students in Britain

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  46. Child participatory research methods: exploring grade 6 pupils’ experiences of private tutoring in Kazakhstan

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Education, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  47. The role of private tutoring in admission to higher education: Evidence from a highly selective university in Kazakhstan

    Article • The Hungarian Educational Research Journal, July 2021, Akademiai Kiado

    Anas Hajar

  48. Exploring Postgraduate students’ challenges and strategy use while writing a master’s thesis in an English-medium University in Kazakhstan

    Article • Tertiary Education and Management, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anas Hajar

  49. Investigating language identities of international postgraduate students in Britain: a qualitative inquiry

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  50. Theoretical foundations of phenomenography: a critical review

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  51. Shifting learning strategies and future selves of Arab postgraduate students in Britain: a qualitative inquiry

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  52. The association between private tutoring and access to grammar schools: Voices of Year 6 pupils and teachers in south‐east England

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, December 2019, Wiley

    Anas Hajar

  53. Arab sojourner expectations, academic socialisation and strategy use on a pre-sessional English programme in Britain

    Article • Pedagogies An International Journal, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  54. International Students’ Challenges, Strategies and Future Vision

    Article • December 2018, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Anas Hajar

  55. Shadow education and the curriculum and culture of schooling in South Korea

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  56. Exploring Year 6 pupils’ perceptions of private tutoring: evidence from three mainstream schools in England

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  57. Examining the Impact of Immediate Family Members on Gulf Arab EFL Students’ Strategic Language Learning and Development

    Article • RELC Journal, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Anas Hajar

  58. Identity, investment and language learning strategies

    Article • Language Culture and Curriculum, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  59. Understanding Arab students’ challenges, strategy use and future vision while writing their Masters dissertations at a UK University: a qualitative inquiry

    Article • Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar

  60. Motivated by visions: a tale of a rural learner of English

    Article • Language Learning Journal, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Anas Hajar