Emergent Bilingual Learners' Target Language Development: A Comparison between Government Policies and School Practices

  • Yaghsha Sahar Department of English, GC Women University Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Mubeen Ali Department of English, GC Women University Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sabboor Hussain Department of English, University of Sialkot, Pakistan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35993/ijitl.v10i1.3090

Abstract

This research paper has attempted to explore the importance of bilingual education and how it can be improved. A quantitative research approach has been chosen to investigate Pakistani bilingual educational policies and how they are applied in Pakistani schools. A questionnaire of 24 items, adapted by Panezai (2023) and Chávez-Moreno (2020), was dispatched online to collect data. The questionnaire was distributed among randomly selected 150 teachers in Sialkot. The threshold theory given by Cummins (2014) was used as the major framework for this study. After analyzing the data through inferential analysis, the results showed t (148) = 6.61, p=0.000 exploring differences in government policies and school practices of the public and private sectors while teaching the target language. Implications of the study highlight that reviving mother tongue or English-only policies is not the sole solution; young bilingual learners need adequate bilingual education policies fairly implemented in the schools to promote target language learning effectively.

Keywords: Bilingual Education, English language learning, Government Policies, School Practices

Published
2024-06-28
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024): International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning (IJITL)
Section
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