Deconstructing the Politics of Access: The Case of the University Student

Abstract

As we address the issue of access to English for the large majority of young people in the country, i.e. those who have had many years of formal instruction solely devoted to teaching it as a subject in a vernacular medium school but with not much success, there are certain aspects that seem axiomatic. Therefore it is necessary to put them down right at the start to clarify the premise on which this paper is based.