The Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality: Global Pressures, National Priorities and Schooling in India

by Sarina Chugani Molina, Padmini Bhuyan Boruah, Maya Kalyanpur

Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South.

Using a postcolonial lens, the volume explores the raciolinguistics of language hierarchies that results in students from low-income backgrounds losing their mother tongues without acquiring academic fluency in English. Using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367646161
• ISBN13: 9780367646165
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages