DefinePK

Abstract

This study is aimed at exploring language planning and policy on bilingual education and maintaining the identity of indigenous language in Balochistan. The study focuses on the implementation language planning and policy as bilingual education system and within its domain to preserve the place of indigenous language. This study was pure qualitative to investigate the secondary school teachers responses over use of bilingualism and to maintain the credibility of indigenous language. The current study was conducted on five senior school teachers in Gwadar, Balochistan. The findings of this research reveal that government school teachers prefer their own mother tongue as compared to any other language. They believed their indigenous language more robust and trustworthy while teaching and using it as medium of instruction. Furthermore, English is considered the right language for communication but its application is less realized.     
Keywords: Language Planning and Policy, Maintaining Indigenous Languages, Bilingualism