English Language-Mediated Settings and Educational Inequalities: Language Education Policy Agendas in the South Pacific (Routledge Research in Language Education)

In this book, Goundar explores how educational inequalities are responsible for the way students perform in English language-mediated school settings.He seeks to establish an explicit connection between language testing and educational inequalities at the higher education level. With its focus on higher education, this research is a fresh reminder of the need to continuously revisit and unsettle inequalities that are embedded in education systems.In the South Pacific context, this study reveals the current issues, including medium of instruction challenges, lack of teaching and learning resources, teacher shortages, and language barriers.Goundar’s research seeks new answers to the problem of academic English language skills faced by undergraduate students.Since English is a second language for the majority of students in Fiji and as the quality of education varies between urban and rural schools, this cumulatively impacts students’ acquisition of English skills, and, consequently, thei