• Madhav Kafle
  • Madhav Kafle
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Kafle-CV.pdf
  • Education:
    • Ph.D.   Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2019
    • M.A.    Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Delaware, USA, 2009
    • M.A.    English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2004
    • B.Ed.   English Education, Mahendra Ratna Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2000
  • Courses Taught:
    • Graduate Academic Communication 
    • TA Seminar and Practicum 
    • Basic Composition 
    • Discussion and Presentation Skills
    • Graduate Writing
    • Writing Dissertation
    • Multilingual Identities
    • The Ecology of Global English
    • ESL Composition for Academic Disciplines
    • Composition for American Academic Communication
  • Awards:
    • 2017    TESOL Professional Development Scholarship, TESOL International Association
    • 2014    Dissertation Support Grant, The Pennsylvania State University
    • 2013    Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Global Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
    • 2013    Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Foundations
  • Membership Affiliations:
    • Association for Writing Across the Curriculum
    • American Association for Applied Linguistics
    • Consortium on Graduate Communication
    • TESOL International Association
    • National Council of Teachers of English
    • Nepal English Language Teachers' Association
    • International Association for World Englishes
  • Publications:
    •                           2021: We were taught English using Nepali:” Bhutanese-Nepali learners negotiating academic literacies in a U.S. University. To be published by Springer in D. Warriner (Ed.) Refugee Education across the Lifespan: Mapping Experiences of Language Learning and Use (In Press).
    • 2020: "No one would like to take a risk”: Multilingual Students’ Views on Language Mixing in Academic Writing. System 94, 102326.
    • 2019: Genre Pedagogies and Academic Writing: Problems and Prospects. The International Journal of Rhetoric and Social Sciences, 1(1), 40-49.
    • 2018: From the “Third World” to a Third World? Tales of a Nepalese Graduate Student in the USA. In S. Khadka, J. C. Davis-McElligatt, &; K. Dorwick, (Eds.), Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy (pp. 126-137). New York: Routledge.
    •  2015: Kafle, M. & Canagarajah, S.  Multiliteracy, Pedagogies and Academic Literacy. In W. E. Wright, S. Boun & O. Garcia, (Eds.),  Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education (pp.241-251). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    •  2014: Negotiating the Local and Global in Nepalese EAP: Inherent Ideological Tensions and Possible Pathways. Journal of NELTA, 19(1-2), 77-87.
    •  2014: EAP in Nepal: Practitioner Perspectives on Multilingual Pedagogy. In I. Liyanage & T. Walker (Eds.), English for academic purposes (EAP) in Asia: Negotiating Appropriate Practices in a Global Context (pp. 51-64). Boston: Sense Publishers.
    • 2013: Reconceptualizing EIL Pedagogy: From Mastery to Successful Negotiation. In N. T. Zacharias, & C. Manara (Eds.), Contextualizing the Pedagogy of English as an International Language: Issues and Tensions (pp. 59-74). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • 2012: Canagarajah, S., Kafle, M. & Matsumoto, Y. World Englishes in Local Classrooms. In A Yiakoumetti (Ed.), Harnessing Linguistic Variation to Improve Education. Rethinking Education, Vol. 5 (pp. 77-96). New York: Peter Lang.