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Racialization and English Learning: The Experiences of Nepali Secondary School Students in Hong Kong
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Gong, Yang; Thapa, Chura Bahadur; Gao, Xuesong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper reports on an inquiry that explored how a group of Nepali secondary school students discursively reconstructed and interpreted their English learning in Hong Kong. In the study we collected data from 30 participants through participatory observation, in-depth unstructured interview and taking field notes in two secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Scale-Making, Power and Agency in Arbitrating School-Level Language Planning Decisions
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Weinberg, Miranda – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal's government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Ethnography, Power Structure
Discourses Shaping the Language-in-Education Policy and Foreign Language Education in Nepal: An Intersectional Perspective
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Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Language policy and planning in Nepal has been contested due to the co-existence of multiple contradictory discourses concerning teaching and learning of local, national, foreign, and international languages. Recently a multilingual policy was issued to create space for the once-banned ethnic/indigenous languages in public schooling, further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Policymakers' Agency and the Structure: The Case of Medium of Instruction Policy in Multilingual Nepal
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Poudel, Prem Prasad; Choi, Tae-Hee – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The medium of instruction (MOI) has been a contested issue in multilingual polities globally, as English medium of instruction (EMI) has seen unprecedented growth, threatening the use and sometimes very survival of local/indigenous and even national languages. While the struggles to address related issues have been well researched, how and why…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Language Ideologies and Local Languages as the Medium-of-Instruction Policy: A Critical Ethnography of a Multilingual School in Nepal
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Phyak, Prem – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper analyzes the ideologies and practices of local languages as the medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy in a multilingual school in Nepal. Grounded on the notion of language policy as a locally situated social practice, this critical ethnographic study investigates challenges--both ideological and implementational--that local languages MOI…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Ideology
Beyond the Facade of Language Planning for Nepalese Primary Education: Monolingual Hangover, Elitism and Displacement of Local Languages?
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Phyak, Prem Bahadur – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The recent political transformation of Nepal from a constitutional monarchy to a federal democratic republic and from a Hindu polity to a secular country has brought about some crucial changes in language planning. The Interim Constitution of Nepal has not only recognized the multilingual and multicultural reality of the country but has also…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Practices, Primary Education, Multilingualism