SHAISTA ASALMROLL NO. 09-940

MORNING

MA ELTL

4TH SEMESTER

Role of public and private schools in English language

learning in Pakistan

• Define public and private schools

• Status of English language

• Difference between private and public schools

• Role of public and private schools in English language learning's.

• Public schools

• Private schools

• English language

• Official language of Pakistan

• Used in all domains of power (bureaucracy, military, commerce, media and education.)

Difference between private and public schools

Public schools• Offer all instruction in

Urdu or in local provincial language

• Low quality of education• No discipline• No proper facilities

Private schools• Offer all instruction in

English language • Quality education • Discipline • Provide all facilities

English medium schools

• State influenced elitist public schools / cadet colleges

• Private elitist schools

• Non elitist schools

State influenced institutions

• Top public schools

• Cadet colleges

• Federal government model schools

• Armed forces schools

Public schools / cadet colleges

• Quite expensive

• Affordable for the middle classes

• Tuition fees increase in senior classes

• 56.90% boys belong to middle class backgrounds.

• Textbooks in English but form the textbook boards.

Federal government model schools

• Some subjects in English and others in urdu

Armed forces schools

• Generally provided cheap English medium schooling to their own dependents.

Private elitist schools

• Apart from the schools run by agencies.• Existed since British times• Not expensive• Prepare students for the British ordinary and

advance level examinations • Teaching methods are modern, innovative and

interesting • Books are printed abroad• Classics of English are used to teach English.

Non elitist schools

• English medium only in name

• No creativity

• No use of methodologies

• Only memorization

• Only mathematics and science subject were in English.

Products of non elitist English schools

• Not fluent in English

• No enhancement of communication skills

• No confidence

Conclusion

• In short, the English medium schools do not really contribute towards the creation of a democratic culture in Pakistan despite the fact that its products are aware of democratic values in the abstract.