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Pakistan needs a multilingual education model to protect minority language groups

  • Ameer Ali and Professor Maya Khemlani David,

English and Urdu are dominant in Pakistan’s education system and other languages have been neglected or marginalised.

Language education policy in Nepal and the denial of the right to speak in Indigenous languages

  • Prem Phyak,

English as a medium of instruction in Nepal is violating students’ ‘right to speak’ in their home languages.

‘Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia’ by Subhan Zein

  • Dr Howard Manns,

Few have investigated the underpinnings of Indonesia’s language policy as thoroughly as Zein.

English language education in China is being challenged as against Chinese culture

  • Associate Professor Delia Lin,

English language education is getting increasingly political within China as US–China rivalry intensifies.

The potential risks of standardising China’s translated foreign affairs discourse

  • Assistant Professor Bei Hu,

Translation standardisation is seen as a way of managing the risk of mis-translation, but it doesn’t necessarily produce the best translations

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