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The Chaotic English Language Policy and Planning in Bangladesh: Areas of Apprehension

Mohammad Mosiur Rahman and Ambigapathy Pandian

Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2018

Keywords: Language Policy and Planning (LPP), English Language Teaching (ELT), Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Bangladesh

Published on: 29 Jun 2018

This article describes and explains the policies related to the use and teaching of English in Education Policy and Planning (LPP) in Bangladesh. From Independence, the nation faced a problem in selecting a consistent English language policy; the selections that were made resulted in poor English language teaching in the country. A historical timeline of the English-in-Education policy is presented and discussed in this article to identify the inconsistencies in the language policy. Although a number of challenges since achieving Independence have been addressed, in the past two decades the problem of selecting a suitable education policy for English as a subject has become more critical with the introduction of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) as a method of English language teaching. Therefore, the present article critically examines Bangladesh's current language in education policy through the framework of Kaplan and Baldauf (2003). This paper is entirely based on secondary sources and entails analysis of the extant literature. From data obtained from articles and manuscripts, this article sketches the problem from historical accounts, empirical studies and experts' points of view.

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JSSH-2072-2017

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