Multilingual Language Practices in Education in Pakistan: The Conflict Between Policy and Practice

This study examines the language practices in educational settings Pakistan, taking multilingual groupings society into account. In each province is linked to single or multiple identities of its people and languages spoken by majority. The national Urdu limited function as a lingua franca. English serves authority, offices, settings. Through discourse-ethnographic analysis, this individual joint actions policymakers teachers understand role policy practice interview data identified issues regarding relationship between language, identity, nation, region, religion, power, personal attainment regional, national, international Moreover, power education produce adequate results regional discourses that ignore. concludes arguing for language-in-education societies require thoughtful planning which should be informed local conditions requirements better implementation.