A Sociolinguistic Study of Social Stratification in Jharkhand and Its Impact on Academic Performance in English at Secondary Level Education

The presence of social stratification in every society is an open secret issue. It has multidimensional effects on people's food habit, life style, expectation, and education etc. The purpose of this study is to find out a relationship between social stratification in Jharkhand(India) and its impact on students' academic performance in English at secondary level education. In doing so an empirical study has been conducted. Data were collected from secondary level students and English teachers through questionnaire. The analysis of the data of this study seeks to show that students' academic performance in English co-relates with their social status, economic condition, family background and area of residence etc. As such varied performance of different groups of students is related to social stratification; hence finding out any single solution to this deep rooted issue is virtually impossible. However, to reduce the gaps among different groups of students some recommendations of experienced English teachers have been suggested in this paper.