Beyond market and language commodification: Contemplating social-market value and social-welfare concerns in language education policy and practice in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Syed Abdul Manan ◽  
Sham Haidar ◽  
Rooh UI Amin
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Language Commodification ◽  
Social Market

LANGUAGE POLICY AND PEDAGOGY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF A. RONALD WALTON. Richard D. Lambert and Elana Shohamy (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. Pp. xii + 279. $65.00 cloth.

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-123
Author(s):  
Timothy Reagan
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy And Planning

Language policy and pedagogy, as its subtitle suggests, is dedicated to A. Ronald Walton, who died quite young in 1996. Walton had served as the deputy director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) in Washington, D.C., since its founding in 1986, and the contributors to this volume all have had direct or indirect connections to the NFLC. Further, the essays in this volume are all related to issues and areas that were of concern to Walton during the course of his career. All of that having been said, this work is considerably more than a typical Festschrift; it is in fact a timely and important contribution to the growing literature dealing with both language policy and planning studies and contemporary issues in U.S. foreign language education policy and practice.

Rethinking Language Education policy in the Context of Multilingual/ Multicultural English

2021 ◽  
Vol X (2) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Aicha Rahal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Language Education Policy ◽  
Global English

Globalization has brought about a phenomenal spread of English. This spread has led to the emergence of the newborn varieties which has created serious challenges to language teaching pedagogy and language education policy. Bangbose (2003) has clearly pointed to this issue, stating “as researchers in world Englishes, we cannot consider our job done if we turn a blind eye to the problems of educational failure or unfavorable language policy outcomes” (as cited in the Council of Europe, 2007, p. 31). It seems that there is a mismatch between the advances that happened in the field of applied linguistics and language education policy. This paper focuses on language education policy in the context of global English because it is considered one of the influential factors in the gap between English lingua franca reality and English as a native language. First, it gives a brief overview of the recent situation with regard to English and shows the recent reality of multilingual English and its multifarious aspect (Rahal, 2018 & 2019). It also discusses the conceptual gap in language education policy. It points to the conceptual gap between the sociolinguistic reality of English and the language education policy that is still oriented towards English as a native language. Then, the paper points to the need for a language policy that includes linguistic diversity.

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