Medium of instruction policies and language practices, ideologies and institutional divides: voices of teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh

The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by ‘actors’ including teachers and students in the micro-context. However, there has been limited research on teachers' and students' language practices and ideologies that potentially reproduce divisive MOI policies for different sectors of education. This article reports a case study involving teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh to illustrate how national MOI policies provide a framework for actors in the micro-context to construct identities for languages and institutions by means of ‘othering’. Higher education in…