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dc.contributor.authorHillman, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-06T14:13:21Z
dc.date.available2023-03-06T14:13:21Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61617
dc.description.abstractNeoliberalism, globalisation, and English language hegemony have contributed to the adoption of Western “travelling policies” in the Arab Gulf states, such as building knowledge-based economies and the implementation of English-medium instruction in schools and universities. In Qatar, as well as in other Arab Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, this has led to ideologies of English-medium instruction and Arabic-medium instruction being in competition with each other. The result of these ideologies in Qatar has been several abrupt shifts between English-medium instruction and Arabic-medium instruction in language policies for government schools and the leading national university, and other broader efforts to preserve and promote the Arabic language. This chapter first provides an overview of the macro sociolinguistic situation and the roles, status, and functions of English in Qatar. It then describes the shifts between English-medium instruction and Arabic-medium instruction in language policies and implications for cultural and linguistic identities in Qatar. Finally, the chapter reflects on Qatar’s strong resistance to EMI among the Arab Gulf states and the future of English-medium instruction and Arabic-medium instruction in the country.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learningen_US
dc.subject.otherEMI, bilingual education, translanguaging, multilingualism, academic literacies, Arab Gulf statesen_US
dc.titleChapter 4 Language Policies and Ideologies in Qataren_US
dc.title.alternativeIs Resistance to English-Medium Instruction the Right Resistance?en_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003183594-5en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook6f4f68e2-3088-45ca-99b5-df8167de131aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032024936en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032024943en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages17en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Texas A&M University at Qatar


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