THE IMPACT OF LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CONSIDERING BENGALI LANGUAGE CLASSROOM USERS, AND OTHERS USING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, WHICH IS A BARRIER TO LEARNING

This paper determines and analyses the problems faced by Bengali Medium students, and how Bengali medium students are treated negatively and thus affect their outcomes, at university. This research paper has been made based on secondary and primary data which the researcher analyzes and graphical representation. The researcher structured a survey questionnaire on a sample size 30. The researcher focused on the actual problems that are being faced by Bengali medium students at university. Also, the researcher tried to find out why Bengali medium students were treated negatively by many faculty members and tried to find out whether these problems are affecting the student’s achievement or not; the researcher also tried to take some suggestions from the students about how can we reduce the problems. A mixed-method approach was considered in writing this paper. With the use of a Likert scale for collecting the primary data from the students was collected. After analyzing these data, the researcher focused on collecting secondary data. Secondary data were collected from different sources i.e. online journals, online articles, and some web pages. KEYWORDS: pedagogical practices, language proficiency, multilingualism, linguistic identity, language barriers