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Publication details [#57911]

Phyak, Prem Bahudur. 2013. Language ideologies and local languages as the medium-of-instruction policy: a critical ethnography of a multilingual school in Nepal. Current Issues in Language Planning 14 (1) : 127–143.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language of instruction | language policy | minority language | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | Nepalese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This critical ethnographic research examines both ideological and implementational challenges faced by local languages as medium of instruction (MOI) policies in the socio-politically stratified multilingual Nepal, from a local actors’ viewpoint in order to comprehend the breach between policy and practice.