Bazai, Zia Ur Rehman and Manan, Syed Abdul and Pillai, Stefanie (2023) Language policy and planning in the teaching of native languages in Pakistan. Current Issues in Language Planning, 24 (3). pp. 293-311. ISSN 1466-4208, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2088972.
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The teaching of native languages is seen as being key to the development of cognitive skills, better academic performance in early grades and a resource for linguistic (re)vitalization and cultural revival. This study examines the institutional challenges in teaching and learning native languages in Pakistan. The study uses teachers' agency through the public sphere paradigm as a theoretical framework to investigate the concerns and opinions of teachers and their agency regarding the challenges to native languages policy. The majority of teachers overwhelmingly support native languages, and endorse their importance in education, particularly in the development of cognitive skills and better academic performance. However, several institutional challenges hold back the teaching of native languages in public schools in Pakistan. The participants argue that native languages need an effective language-in-education policy. In addition, students, teachers and parents are not likely to deem native languages as resources until they gain some economic value. The study suggests that the current policy regarding native languages should be reviewed and refashioned considering their importance to students' academic performance. Further, a dynamic policy-making mechanism is proposed where stakeholders at every level are able to coordinate in policy formulation and its effective implementation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Native languages; language policy and planning; language in education policy; bi/multilingualism; language-as-a-resource |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Languages and Linguistics |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2025 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2025 08:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/50050 |
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