<h1 class="entry-title">Social meanings of language policy in Pakistan</h1>
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Aga
Khan University Institute for Educational Development presents global
research seminar about language-in-education policy in Pakistan</p></div>
<p>The Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development presents a global research seminar:</p>
<p><strong>Topic:</strong> Social Meanings of language policy and practices: A critical linguistic ethnographic study of four schools in Pakistan</p>
<p><strong>Presenter</strong>: Muhammad Ali Khan</p>
<p><strong>Date</strong>: Friday, March 22, 2013<br>
<strong>Time</strong>: 2:00 pm, West Asia Time (Islamabad, GMT+05:00)</p>
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> I investigate the language-in-education
policy and practices of Pakistan in four schools, using an
interdisciplinary approach combining methods and perspectives from
post-structuralist theory, critical ethnographic sociolinguistics and
sociolinguistics. My study theorizes the ways in which everyday language
practices in schools contribute to the reproduction or contestation of
linguistic ideologies, language hierarchies and social relations. Data
was gathered using a number of different methods, mainly observation,
audio-recording, note-taking, interviews, photography and administering a
questionnaire.</p>
<p>The findings suggest that languages on display in schools are an
important resource for investigating the language policy, linguistic
ideologies, hierarchies and power relations at micro, meso and macro
levels. They constitute a sociolinguistic order in which standard
varieties of English and Urdu dominate the public space. The
orthographic aspects of languages on display reconstitute the
socio-political and economic struggles embedded in the history of
asymmetrical power relations. At the policy level, they show a clear
contradiction between the spoken language practices observed in schools
and the clearly defined boundaries between languages shown in the
display. At the policy level, they misrepresent the multilingual makeup
of Pakistani society by only displaying the officially-mandated
languages.</p>
<p>In sum, this seminar engages with the field of language policy and
bilingual education by showing how the study of languages on display can
be used to investigate policy, and also the socio-political relations
across time and space. It also contributes to bilingual education by
illustrating the complexity involved at the implementation site of
bilingual education, showing the agency of the actors in appropriating,
negotiating, resisting or rejecting policy at micro levels.</p>
<p><strong>Presenter</strong>: <a href="http://www.languageonthemove.com/muhammad-ali-khan-2">Muhammad Ali Khan</a>
is a doctoral researcher at Lancaster University and senior instructor
in the Center of English Language at Aga Khan University.</p>
<p><strong>How to join online:</strong></p>
<p><em id="__mceDel"> Date: Friday, March 22, 2013<br>
Time: 2:00 pm, West Asia Time (Islamabad, GMT+05:00)<br>
Meeting Number: 627 529 273<br>
Meeting Password: 12345</em></p>
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