Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Public Policy Dilemma of Choosing the Medium of Instruction for School Education: A Case for Questioning Fallacies and Connecting Objectives:

Public Policy Dilemma of Choosing the Medium of Instruction for School Education: A Case for... This article focuses on the issue of the public policy choice of the medium of instruction in public schools in India, taking the high demand for English-medium school education into consideration. Building on the available literature and evidence, the article argues against the introduction of English as a singular medium of instruction in school education. The introduction of English in public and private low-cost schools is not helping children in attaining any proficiency in English. The use of English also adversely impacts their capacity to learn other subjects well. The article argues for the adoption of the translanguaging philosophy and multilingual approach to address all objectives that drive the choice of a particular medium of instruction: gaining proficiency in the said languages, ability to communicate well using those languages, using those languages to learn other subjects, making schools inclusive by including diverse home languages present in school education and enabling diverse languages to flourish by promoting their learning and usage in formal schools. This requires a reform in institutional approaches and capacity building but does not necessarily imply additional burden. Certain parts of the world have adopted these approaches successfully and learning from them. Indian states can device their own approaches taking local contexts and realities into account. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian Development Research SAGE

Public Policy Dilemma of Choosing the Medium of Instruction for School Education: A Case for Questioning Fallacies and Connecting Objectives:

Jha, Jyotsna
Journal of Asian Development Research , Volume OnlineFirst: 1 – Aug 23, 2021
Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/public-policy-dilemma-of-choosing-the-medium-of-instruction-for-school-LV007VE0xi

References (17)

Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
Copyright © 2022 by Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, unless otherwise noted. Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
ISSN
2633-190X
eISSN
2633-1918
DOI
10.1177/2633190x211034697
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This article focuses on the issue of the public policy choice of the medium of instruction in public schools in India, taking the high demand for English-medium school education into consideration. Building on the available literature and evidence, the article argues against the introduction of English as a singular medium of instruction in school education. The introduction of English in public and private low-cost schools is not helping children in attaining any proficiency in English. The use of English also adversely impacts their capacity to learn other subjects well. The article argues for the adoption of the translanguaging philosophy and multilingual approach to address all objectives that drive the choice of a particular medium of instruction: gaining proficiency in the said languages, ability to communicate well using those languages, using those languages to learn other subjects, making schools inclusive by including diverse home languages present in school education and enabling diverse languages to flourish by promoting their learning and usage in formal schools. This requires a reform in institutional approaches and capacity building but does not necessarily imply additional burden. Certain parts of the world have adopted these approaches successfully and learning from them. Indian states can device their own approaches taking local contexts and realities into account.

Journal

Journal of Asian Development Research – SAGE

Published: Aug 23, 2021

Keywords: English medium; language; learning; multilingual; translanguaging; medium of instruction

There are no references for this article.