Discourses shaping the language-in-education policy and foreign language education in Nepal: an intersectional perspective

IF 1.7 1区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Current Issues in Language Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-29 DOI:10.1080/14664208.2021.2013063
Prem Prasad Poudel, T. Choi
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ABSTRACT 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 complexifying the landscape. A few studies have paid attention to teaching and learning of the lesser taught ethnic/indigenous and foreign languages; however, what discursive orientations have contributed towards enabling (or constraining) the use of such languages in education and how have yet to receive scholarly attention. Framed by the perspectives of the intersectionality of discourses, and drawing on in-depth interviews with policymakers, headteachers, teachers, students, and their parents of five schools of Nepal, this paper concludes that the interplay between broader discourses such as globalisation, neoliberal marketisation and nationalism has played a significant role in shaping language policy decisions and localised practice of language(s). It also reveals that the spaces for ethnic/indigenous languages in education are delimited, in preference of English, Nepali, and other emerging foreign languages, leading to their further marginalisation. Such trends diminish the potential use of lesser taught languages, threatening Nepal’s multilingual education policy towards sustaining existing linguistic diversity.
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尼泊尔教育政策和外语教育中塑造语言的话语:交叉视角
摘要尼泊尔的语言政策和规划一直存在争议,因为在当地、国家、外国和国际语言的教学中存在着多种相互矛盾的话语。最近颁布了一项多语言政策,为公立学校中一度被禁止的民族/土著语言创造空间,使情况进一步复杂化。一些研究关注少数民族/土著和外国语言的教学;然而,哪些话语取向有助于(或限制)在教育中使用此类语言,以及如何使用这些语言,尚待学术界关注。本文从话语交叉性的角度出发,通过对尼泊尔五所学校的政策制定者、校长、教师、学生及其家长的深入采访,得出结论,全球化、,新自由主义市场化和民族主义在语言政策决策和语言本地化实践中发挥了重要作用。它还表明,少数民族/土著语言在教育中的空间是有限的,优先于英语、尼泊尔语和其他新兴外语,导致它们进一步被边缘化。这种趋势减少了教授较少的语言的潜在使用,威胁到尼泊尔维持现有语言多样性的多语言教育政策。
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期刊介绍: The journal Current Issues in Language Planning provides major summative and thematic review studies spanning and focusing the disparate language policy and language planning literature related to: 1) polities and language planning and 2) issues in language planning. The journal publishes four issues per year, two on each subject area. The polity issues describe language policy and planning in various countries/regions/areas around the world, while the issues numbers are thematically based. The Current Issues in Language Planning does not normally accept individual studies falling outside this polity and thematic approach. Polity studies and thematic issues" papers in this journal may be self-nominated or invited contributions from acknowledged experts in the field.
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