Resumen de Challenges of multilingual education in Ethiopia

Bekalu Atnafu Taye

• The aim of this article is to examine the perceived views of professors on the challenges of multilingual education in the current political landscape of Ethiopia. The study was qualitative, and it used interviews and focus group discussions. The findings of the study revealed that the rise of ethnocentric mentality has brought enormous complexities in the process of giving recognition to the minority language groups found in various regional states. The most visible challenges of multilingual education in Ethiopia are the state of being monolingual in a multilingual society, the wrongly-held perception of ethnocentric elites on the lingua franca of the nation and the language-based boundaries.