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Publication details [#66986]

Haidar, Sham. 2019. Access to English in Pakistan: inculcating prestige and leadership through instruction in elite schools. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (7) : 833–848.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

In Pakistan, English is one of the official languages and the language of higher education, a prerequisite for professional positions, and the most prestigious language. However, access to English may not be the same for people belonging to different socioeconomic statuses because of different school systems. The inquiry found that English language instruction prepares students for variant social roles in different schools focusing on developing different linguistic resources and social capital, which perpetuate class structure.