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Bilingual Education in India and Pakistan

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Bilingual and Multilingual Education

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This paper reviews current research on bilingual education in Pakistan and India. It shows that while the context of the two countries is different, literature on the topic report similar issues and have similar constraints: the literature typically discusses policy issues and attitudes towards code-switching, and there is a dearth of classroom-based research on this topic. The paper reviews the key current debates in the two countries and identifies issues that need to be considered as research on the topic evolves.

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    Urdu is the designated national language of Pakistan. The Indian Constitution does not mandate any one language as a “national language” (Annamalai 2001).

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  1. Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, John Woolley Building (A-20), 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ahmar Mahboob

  2. INTO Mason, George Mason University, 1509 Mason Global Center, Fairfax, VA, 22032, USA

    Rashi Jain

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Mahboob, A., Jain, R. (2016). Bilingual Education in India and Pakistan. In: Garcia, O., Lin, A., May, S. (eds) Bilingual and Multilingual Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02324-3_15-1

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