The Linguistic Market for English in Bangladesh

Autor/in	Hamid, M. Obaidul
Titel	The Linguistic Market for English in Bangladesh
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 17 (2016) 1, S.36-55 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1747-7506
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2016.1105909
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Planning; Language Role; Foreign Countries; Language Attitudes; Communicative Competence (Languages); Commercialization; Language of Instruction; Public Schools; Private Schools; Grade Point Average; Secondary Schools; Higher Education; Social Capital; Bangladesh + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachwechsel; Ausland; Sprachverhalten; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Sekundarschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Sozialkapital; Bangladesch
Abstract	A large body of work has investigated the presence of English and its teaching and learning in the developing world where English is used as a second/foreign language. While this work has provided plausible explanations for the global spread of English as well as its uptake by education policy-makers and communities, there has been limited research on, in Bourdieu's (1991, p. 44) terms, the "economic and social conditions of the acquisition of the legitimate competence" in English. This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of linguistic market and linguistic capital to illustrate differential proficiency outcomes for different market actors affiliated with different education markets in Bangladesh. Although Bourdieu focused on the notion of a "unified market" with reference to the dominant or official language, investigating English as a second or foreign language requires exploring multiple markets of English in the polity. Drawing on a diversified understanding of the context of language policy and planning, these markets are located at the national and subnational levels. I argue that while macro-level policy-makers have been guided by "linguistic communism" in introducing English for all, it is actually market forces that determine, to a large extent, who attains linguistic competence and whose competence is likely to be transformed into linguistic capital. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01