Access to English in Pakistan: a source of prestige or a hindrance to success

Haidar, Sham; Fang, Fan

doi:10.1080/02188791.2019.1671805

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“…The high demand for the English language increases its importance of learning. The present research reveals that English is a key instrument to capture the global market (Haidar, 2016(Haidar, , 2017Haidar & Fang, 2019;A. Hussain et al, 2021).…”

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The Reason for Low English Language Literacy among the Students of Social Sciences in Rural Colleges, of the Punjab

2021

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Education prepares personalities to make contributions productively in this world. Various factors make English compulsory for educational practice. Tragically, Pakistani students still could not achieve English skills especially the students are living in the rural areas of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The study of this paper aims to discover the roadblocks and to propose ways to advance the English teaching and learning skills in the backward area colleges of the Punjab, Pakistan. A qualitative research design technique was used, 36 teachers (16 female and 20 male) teachers from Lahore city were through a convenient sampling technique. A systematic analysis technique and the comments and opinions of the instructors were checked by noticing their lessons for three days. Findings show that students are teachers are facing many challenges that hinder them to get efficient English learning. The challenges are a weak background of teachers and students about English, limited learning resources, crowded classes, acute shortage of relevant English language teachers, inadequate parent's interest, and insufficient training to teachers. The study also suggests that the teachers who are teaching languages should be equipped with essential English resources and specialized training also should be carried out for languages teachers to cater to the present challenges.

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The Reason for Low English Language Literacy among the Students of Social Sciences in Rural Colleges, of the Punjab

2021

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“…It can be argued that due to excessive multimodal communication, the information is received in patterns instead of parts. This can help in improving English instruction in developing countries where students have limited access to the English language, especially those who belong to low socioeconomic backgrounds (Haidar, 2019b;Haidar and Fang, 2019).…”

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English language learning and social media: Schematic learning on Kpop Stan twitter

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Haidar

2020

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The recent years have observed a notable rise in online activities and interactions. One of the popular online interaction zones are fandom communities comprising fans of any artist, band, TV show, movie, book, and so on. These fans come together on various platforms to enthuse about their favorites with people who share their admiration and interests. One such platform is Twitter and the fandom community is Stan Twitter. Within those fandoms, K-Pop fandom stands out because of the density of English as a second or foreign language speakers in this community. Taking this community as its sample, this study explores the ways in which the non-native English speaking fandom members use English to communicate on this platform. Moreover, the study focuses on the interpretation and usage of meme discourse by these non-native English speaking members. The findings reveal that the fandom members learn memetic discourse by internalizing it in the form of schemas, which means that they learn the whole chunk of interaction rather than learning individual words. The study has also explored overall language-learning within this community, and has discussed the implications of fandom activities as potential learning aids.

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“…(Haidar, 2016) highlighted that the education system of Pakistan still needs further improvement and enhancement to meet to ensure social justice, political stability, socio-economic development, demolishing gender disparity, and elevation of poverty. (Haidar and Fang, 2019) elaborated that students' dropout, their attendance issues, teachers' truancy (absenteeism), and unequal access to educational resources, low school efficiency, and low literacy rate are the key issues in the education system. (Ali & Hussain 2020) mentioned that as IMU was established in 2014 but IMU improved the attendance of both teachers and students at school level by 13% and 24% and 300 teachers were terminated from their services due to their routine absenteeism; furthermore, 8000 disciplinary actions were taken by the department against teachers and 200 million funds were recovered via various resources.…”

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Comparative Effectiveness of Internal and External Monitoring Systems Regarding Monitoring Students’ Attendance at Primary School Level in District Bannu

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Ullah²,

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Purpose of the study: The key purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of Internal and External Monitoring systems regarding students’ attendance at primary school level Bannu. Methodology: Descriptive survey design was used for this study. The data was taken from head Teachers through a self-developed questionnaire of the 6-Likert scale. According to John Curry (1984) Sample size rule of Thumb, out of N= 650, n= 65 respondents was taken from district Bannu. A simple random technique was used, and also validity and reliability of the instrument were making sure in this study. Data were analyzed through SPSS by using Mean, Std. Deviation and t-test. Main Findings: The main findings of the existing study shown that the officials of external monitoring are better in monitor the students’ attendance, improving students’ attendance during routine monitoring, priority-based check-up of primary school students attendance during official visits, and pointing out of students absentees while the internal monitoring officials perform better only regarding “encouraging school staff to motivate the regular students with the proper award”. Applications of this study: The existing study greatly significant for Educational administrators and monitoring departments, policymakers, Head Teachers, and the government which can find the real fact and issues about student attendance. Novelty/Originality of this study: The current study is fairly new and unique in the field of education department of the monitoring system. The current study is the original research work of a researcher in the field of the education monitoring system of IMS and EMS/IMU.

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Access to English in Pakistan: a source of prestige or a hindrance to success

Cited by 23 publications

References 47 publications

The Reason for Low English Language Literacy among the Students of Social Sciences in Rural Colleges, of the Punjab

The Reason for Low English Language Literacy among the Students of Social Sciences in Rural Colleges, of the Punjab

English language learning and social media: Schematic learning on Kpop Stan twitter

Comparative Effectiveness of Internal and External Monitoring Systems Regarding Monitoring Students’ Attendance at Primary School Level in District Bannu

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