Navigating Language Ideologies Through Translanguaging in EAL Classrooms of Pakistan: A Sociolinguistics Perspective

Language is a tool for instructing and expressing a variety of perspectives. This study aimed to explore the ideologies navigated through translanguaging in Pakistani institutions where English Language instruction is provided as an additional language (EAL). An exploratory sequential mixed-method design was employed, beginning with 480 minutes of non-participant observations, followed by the administration of a 31-item survey to 100 language teachers (n = 100). This study adopts the Ideological Model of Literacy developed by Curiel and Ponzio as its conceptual framework. The involuntary navigation of primarily seven ideologies was revealed through observations in Pakistani classrooms. The quantitative data were analysed using SPSS 20.0, revealing that political ideologies and world Englishes ideologies received the lowest average score of 2.34. However, racio-linguistic and English-only ideologies averaged 3.34. 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