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Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar and Anderson, Jason (2023) Languages for learning : a framework for implementing India’s multilingual language-in-education policy. Current Issues in Language Planning, 24 (1). pp. 102-122. doi:10.1080/14664208.2022.2037292 ISSN 1747-7506.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2037292
Abstract
This paper proposes a framework for multilingual language-in-education policy implementation, offered as a critically constructive response to India’s recent National Education Policy 2020 (GOI, 2020). Rooted in India’s existing educational language policy, our linguistically inclusive ‘Languages for Learning’ (LFL) framework is, we believe, structurally flexible, socioculturally feasible, economically viable and academically relevant. It aims to foster equity and also to ensure first language support and cognitive independence. Before presenting the framework, we critically review the multilingual policy guidance offered in NEP 2020, then lay out a theoretical foundation for the LFL framework based primarily on current translanguaging theory, and also discuss the history of India’s much maligned three-language formula (TLF), which forms the core of language policy in India. The framework itself is presented with reference to specific contextual challenges in India that may also serve to indicate its relevance for other multilingual contexts around the world. As such, the LFL framework is offered as a more multilingually-appropriate alternative to the reductive construct of ‘Medium of Instruction’, which itself originates in the monolingual habitus of historically outdated language-in-education policy theory. We invite critical evaluations of the utility of our framework, both for India and other multilingual contexts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Current Issues in Language Planning | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1747-7506 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 24 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 102-122 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14664208.2022.2037292 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Current Issues in Language Planning on 08/02/2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14664208.2022.2037292 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 September 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 August 2023 |
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