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100			_aChamling, Rosy
245			_aThe Practice of Academic English in Sikkim _b(Journal Article)
260			_aChennai _b: English Language Teachers' Association of India _c, 2022
300			_a20-27p.
440			_aJournal of English Language Teaching _v, Volume 64 Number 2 : March - April 2022
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520			_aAbstract: With a history of both colonial (English) and indigenous educational practices (Monastic), Sikkim’s engagement with the English language reveals the state’s transition towards modernity. While the principal spoken languages of Sikkim are Nepali, Bhutia and Lepcha; English is taught in schools from the primary level as a compulsory subject which apparently makes the students exposed to Academic English from an early stage. Sikkim’s language ecology bears witness to a linguistic cleavage between English as an Academic Language and as a Social Language, particularly at the university level. This paper attempts to discuss: (i) How does Academic English fare in the language ecology of Sikkim? (ii) How does one withstand the contradictory pressures of vigorous ethnolinguistic identities as opposed to the linguistic imperialism of the English language in Sikkim?
650			_aSikkim | Academic English | Language Ecology | Social Language | Linguistic Imperialism
856			_uhttps://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jelt/article/view/JELT640204
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