About me
Shubha Koshy has been teaching at international schools in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region for 30 years. She is a functional linguist, an IB Educator and has an M.Ed from the University of Nottingham alongside a Diploma in Frontline Management at International Schools. Shubha is Head of EAP at West Island School, Hong Kong. She advises on language policy and pathways for access and inclusion.
She has previously been a workshop leader for the IBO on Language Policy and is currently chair of ESF’s EAP Curriculum Group. Shubha is concerned with learner identity and wellbeing in the context of academic language development. She was a lead contributor on IBO’s stance paper on Language and Learning in IB Programmes, IBO’s Access & Inclusion policies. Shubha is a member of the international SEE Learning Committee led by Emory University, investigating the role of social-emotional, ethical learning in the academic language development of bilingual and multilingual students. Shubha is a Cambridge IGCSE ESL author for Harper Collins, London. She has presented at the Tokyo IAFOR conference on international mindedness and AISC 2022 on teen well being. Shubha has been a keynote speaker for the Fulbright, Language Learning Conferences of 2023 & 2024.