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- Title
Teachers' Role in Implementation of English Language Teaching Policies in Public Primary Schools of Rural Area in Punjab, Pakistan.
- Authors
Rafique, Nida; Sultan, Babar; Ahmad, Shabbir; Imran, Muhammad
- Abstract
Pakistan is a multi-lingual country, and the national language is Urdu while officially focused language is English. In Pakistan, Govt. is trying to implement English as a medium of instruction from class one to graduation. For this purpose, several policies were formulated from first language policy in 1958 to date. The basic motive behind such policies is to make the students proficient in English language and its fluent usage to compete with the worldwide challenges. That is why parents prefer to send their children to good English Medium Schools instead of public schools, so that they can learn good English as it's perceived as a passport for better opportunities in life. Descriptive method is opted to analyze the implementation of language policies in rural schools of Punjab. The data is collected with the help of questionnaires, surveys, interviews and classroom observations from 20 English language teachers and their students, currently teaching at primary levels in various rural public schools. The current study finds that English medium policy proves to be a counter-productive as the students show very poor performance in language proficiency. The factors which involved are lack of trained teachers, socio-cultural dynamics, poverty, weak pedagogies and overall atmosphere of the schools especially in public sector play vital role in the failure of language policies. The present study proposes that English language policy at early schooling is good but it should be monitored for a long time in schools.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; ENGLISH language education; TEACHERS; STUDENTS; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 4, p252
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article