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- Title
A Historical Perspective of Pakistan's Language in Education Policy.
- Authors
Javed, Fareeha
- Abstract
The shifts and gaps in English language policies and medium of instruction have always been a hurdle in the achievement of English language and overall education goals in Pakistan. This situation has raised a continuous debate on language-in-education policy and medium of instruction in Pakistan since independence and Pakistani governments to date have been indecisive regarding this. This chaotic situation has caused a great setback to the education system in Pakistan. To understand the issues and challenges pertaining Pakistan's English language education, this paper presents a historical perspective of Pakistan's language in education policy. This paper concludes that there is a dire need of discarding the obsolete colonial language policies and formulating effective language-in-education policy for the achievement of language education goals and ultimately the education goals for the better future of the country. The first step to achieve this goal is to provide Pakistani students with equal opportunities to learn English and have access to learning in English medium.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; BUSINESS English; EDUCATIONAL statistics; EDUCATION associations; SCHOOL councils
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 8, p45
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article