Importance Of Education In English Education

Introduction:

Education is an indispensable means for human language development and a basic right of every citizen. At the dawn of 21st century, it has attained tremendous importance, despite the fact that is confronted with multifaceted challenges and issues especially in Pakistan. The country has not only to bridge the vast gap in the education and literacy of the past decades but has to prepare itself for meeting the challenges of the new era characterized by swiftly progressing language technology. Pakistan has acquired development in the education sector in terms of expanding the number of language institutions. Nevertheless, in the face of rapidly increasing number of languages, participating rate, standard of education, the gender and

The output of the secondary schools primarily comprises those who want to enter in life by availing in future employment opportunities (Morsy 1990). Secondary education provides direction and dimension towards future career. The students need more diversification and vocationalization of education at secondary level in order to determine their future life. SECONDARY EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Secondary education in Pakistan is meant for grade IX and X. But the transitionally middle schooling from grade VI to VIII is also considered a part of secondary education. Education policies introduced from time to time urge that grades XI and XII presently known as higher secondary education should ultimately be merged in the secondary stage. LANGUAGE LANDSCAPE IN PAKISTAN Language is an indispensable form of human communication. It is the storage of a nation’s history and culture and is a strong source of national consciousness. The issue of language plays a vital role in the life of a nation especially in the field of education as well as in the political situation and the socio-economic structure of the country. Pakistan is a diversified society. Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, and Pathans corresponding to the four provinces of the country Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and North West

Even within a major language community, no speakers use a single form and the language remains as series of “styles” and “dialects” of varying degrees of mutual intelligibility. ENGLISH AS a FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN PAKISTAN Pakistan was established in 1947 as part of the settlement of the English Colonial Administration. It was formerly a part of India and as such inherits amongst other features, it massive administrative machinery as well as non-native varieties of IndoPakistani English. English, therefore, enjoys a high status and plays an important role in all major domains of power. It is used in the civil administration and bureaucracy and it is the language of communicator in the country’s legal system at the federal and provincial levels, although in the provincial district and session courts, Urdu is greatly 15 used in writing. According to Abbas, (1998), one should roughly estimate that writing in these courts is bilingual in lower courts, and for the superior courts, i.e. the Supreme Court and High Courts the written texts are in English. The language used in the Defense Forces is English and in the army, navy and air force the models used for training are British and English is the language of communication