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Research on globalized language policies

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.

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

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.

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.

Research on educational applications of sociolinguistics

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

Wangdi, J., & Savski, K. (in press). Linguistic landscape, critical thinking and critical language awareness: promoting learner agency in discourses about language. Language Awareness.

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.

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.

Research on inequality in teacher migration

Savski, K. (in press). (Trans)languaging, power and resistance: bordering as discursive agency. Language in Society.

Savski, K. & Comprendio, L. J. E. V. (in press). Identity and belonging among racialized migrant teachers in Thailand. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

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

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). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

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.

Research on language policy in specific contexts

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

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). Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Savski, K. (2021). Language policy and linguistic landscape: identity and struggle 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). Minorities from other former Yugoslav states in 21^st Century Slovenia. In: M. Rheindorf & R. Wodak (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on migration control: language policy, identity, and belonging (pp. 17-40). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

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.

General writings about language policy

Savski, K. (2019). Historical ethnographic approaches to analysing policy discourses. In: N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (pp. 193-215). Cheltenham: 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). London: 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). Basingstoke: Palgrave.

V slovenščini (in Slovene)

Savski, K. (2015). Kdo slovar ne rabi in kdo ga potrebuje [Who needs a dictionary and who doesn’t]. In: Smolej, M. (Ed.), Obdobja 34: Slovnica in slovar – aktualni jezikovni opis. Ljubljana: ZZFF.

Savski, K. (2013). Obravnava jezikovne kulture v kritiki jezikovne politike [Language cultivation in a critical approach to language policy]. In: Žele, A. (Ed.), Obdobja 32: Družbena funkcijskost jezika (vidiki, merila, opredelitve). Ljubljana: ZZFF.

Book reviews

Savski, K. (2019). Review of the book Globalizing Language Policy and Planning: An Irish Language Perspective, by M. Moriarty. Journal of Language and Politics, 18 (3), 471-473.