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Nepalese EFL Teachers’ Digital Literacy for Online Teaching Saud, Mohan Singh
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language
Publisher : The Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) - Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/reila.v3i1.6129

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The face-to-face mode of delivery had significantly been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to its spread, the government had suspended the traditional classroom teaching system, requiring its alternative online teaching instead. Accordingly, English teachers needed to be prepared with the necessary digital literacy skills for effective online teaching. Considering this situation, this study sought to survey the digital literacy skills of secondary school level English teachers of Nepal to check their preparedness for online delivery. A questionnaire was prepared through Google Docs and circulated to English teachers through emails and Messenger. Data was collected using the snowball-sampling method. Altogether, 426 English teachers across the country participated in this study. This study found that secondary school-level English teachers possess the necessary digital literacy skills like word processing, the use of the Internet, downloading, online presentations, and hence, are prepared for an online teaching mode.
FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON SHIFTING TO ENGLISH MEDIUM EDUCATION IN NEPAL Saud, Mohan Singh
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 27, No 2 (2024): October 2024
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/llt.v27i2.8129

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Nepal’s school education has public and private systems. Private schools are de facto English medium schools, while public schools have Nepali as a medium of instruction. However, some public schools have adopted English medium instruction, and this trend continues. In recent years, there has been a tendency for students studying in private schools to transfer to English medium public schools. In this scenario, this study explores the perspectives of the students shifting from private to English medium public schools in Nepal. This study, grounded in neoliberal ideology, adopted a phenomenological qualitative research design. Three students were purposively selected. The data were collected through unstructured interviews. The interviews were analyzed using a thematic approach. The results showed that the shift of students to English medium public schools for government-recognized certificates significantly reduced the financial burden on parents. The students found that learning in public schools with diverse learning environments was more meaningful. Both private and English-medium public schools used a dual medium of instruction (English-Nepali), with more English used in private schools. The study suggests that English-medium education in public schools in Nepal has attracted students away from English-medium private schools.
ENGLISH MEDIUM PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN NEPAL: A NEW LINGUISTIC MARKET IN EDUCATION Saud, Mohan Singh
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 2 (2020): October 2020
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/llt.v23i2.2571

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This article is the result of the pilot study of my PhD research project. It examines the views of the school principal, teachers, ethnic students and ethnic parents regarding the need and use of EMI along with its classroom practice. Nepal is a multilingual and multilicultural country with diverse geo-biological landscape. However, public schools in Nepal have been adopting English medium instruction as a new linguistic market in education, challenging the mother tongue based multilingual education policy of the government. This paradigm shift from Nepali as a medium of instruction (NMI) to English medium instruction (EMI) has raised controversy in the education system of Nepal. As this study found, there has been a growing demand of parents of EMI seeing English as a linguistic capital in the global socio-economic market and they have taken it as economic investment in education. A noticeable contradiction to the successful introduction of EMI in public school education is the tendency for there to be a gap between EMI policy and classroom practice. Teachers were found to have used bi-/trilingual language policy in the classroom neglecting the spirit of EMI. It seems that EMI public schools in Nepal need clear framework for the effective implementation of the spirit of English medium in the multilingual classroom contexts.
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