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Syed Abdul Manan; Mir Afzal Tajik; Anas Hajar; Muhammad Amin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This article reports data from a qualitative study conducted within the elitist English-medium schools in three cities of Pakistan to claim that theory building, and English teaching practices are still modeled on monolingual biases inherent in the orthodox notions of linguistic purism and Anglo-normative traditions of the 1990s. Orthodoxy is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism, Multilingualism, Professional Autonomy
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Syed Abdul Manan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Employing neoliberal governmentality as a conceptual frame, this paper presents evidence from the mushrooming English language academies from Pakistan to demonstrate that how neoliberal rationality as a normative order of reason governs the minds of learners and teachers without governing. Drawing on the analysis of an open-ended interview…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Social Capital, Cultural Capital