Kamal Raj Devkota

• Tribhuvan University

This article unpacks how socio-cultural structure and learner agency regularly interplay in the identity construction of Dalit adolescents in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) setting in rural Nepal. ‘Learner agency’ stands as an individual’s capacity to exercise to make choices, take control, self-regulate, and constitute his/her identity in...

With a growing interest in teaching English from early grades, a new trend has emerged in public schools in Nepal, wherein schools are offering parallel forms of education within the same school system through instruction in both English and Nepali-mediums. This chapter critically examines how this practice is contributing to further reinforcing th...

This report presents the results of a British Council funded research project which investigated the use of digital technology (such as smartphones) and the English language among schoolchildren in marginalised communities in Bangladesh, Nepal, Senegal and Sudan. It highlights the importance of equal access to technology and English learning opport...

Abstract: Teachers in marginalized communities are known to face numerous challenges that may impact their classroom practices. However, very little is known about their classroom practices in terms of their use of language and technology. Drawing on data collected in an international research project involving teachers and schoolchildren in sever...

Teachers in marginalised communities are known to face numerous challenges that may impact on their classroom practices. However, very little is known about their classroom practices in terms of their use of language and technology. Drawing on data collected in an international research project involving teachers and schoolchildren in several margi...

Disadvantaged young people in low-resource countries are less likely to complete their education or to progress to higher levels, which means that their upward mobility can be severely constrained. Versatile technologies such as smartphones, when combined with an ability to use the English language, can facilitate access to learning resources, ther...

This study report is part of a larger research programme, the Global Research Translation Award: Meeting the SDGs: creating innovative infrastructures and policy solutions to support sustainable development in Global South communities. The University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Global Research Translation Award (GRTA) sets out to help tackle health, nut...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has triggered serious disruption in economic, social and cultural dynamics around the globe. Higher education has also suffered undeniable challenges as a result of the pandemic, with thousands of university students all over the world experiencing displacement, disconnect and disengagement from formal learning. In th...

School Sector Development Plan (SSDP, 2016-2023) has envisaged the establishment and operation of ‘model schools’ to demonstrate improved management and teaching-learning therein. One thousand secondary schools representing all provinces and districts are planned to be developed as model schools, and three hundred and five have already been selecte...