The Importance of Mother Tongue as Language of Instruction in Light of African Experiences
- Dr. Sharif Osman
Publication date
January 2018
DOIAbstract
The Importance of Mother Tongue as Language of Instruction in Light of African Experience
The Importance of Mother Tongue as Language of Instruction in Light of African Experience
In many communities in Kenya, mother tongue was the language of instruction used to impart indigenou...
Mother-tongue education is considered a waste of time if the interests of people, plan, power and bu...
Scholars of language teaching agree that the development of initial literacy is best achieved when t...
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licen...
The Authors are Lectures at the Chandaria School of Business in USIU - AfricaThe subject on what med...
Most countries in Africa are multilingual with an average of about 40 languages per country. This ha...
The maxim that 'Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education a...
Successful education for most African children remains elusive, in part because of the trend to move...
M.Ed. (Educational Linguistics)This study sets out to examine the use of mother tongue education in ...
Both African and international second language studies show that children who go through strong bili...
The politicisation of the language issue in South African education should not contaminate real deba...
The language in education policy in Kenya recommends mother tongue education in primary school learn...
In the Preamble to the Language in Education Policy (1997), in terms of Section 3(4) of the National...
In order to revitalize African languages and advocate for their use as media of instruction in Keny...
In 1953 Unesco published a monograph on The Use of Vernacular in Education, whose key message was t...
In many communities in Kenya, mother tongue was the language of instruction used to impart indigenou...
Mother-tongue education is considered a waste of time if the interests of people, plan, power and bu...
Scholars of language teaching agree that the development of initial literacy is best achieved when t...
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licen...
The Authors are Lectures at the Chandaria School of Business in USIU - AfricaThe subject on what med...
Most countries in Africa are multilingual with an average of about 40 languages per country. This ha...
The maxim that 'Languages develop through use, particularly in high domains such as education a...
Successful education for most African children remains elusive, in part because of the trend to move...
M.Ed. (Educational Linguistics)This study sets out to examine the use of mother tongue education in ...
Both African and international second language studies show that children who go through strong bili...
The politicisation of the language issue in South African education should not contaminate real deba...
The language in education policy in Kenya recommends mother tongue education in primary school learn...
In the Preamble to the Language in Education Policy (1997), in terms of Section 3(4) of the National...
In order to revitalize African languages and advocate for their use as media of instruction in Keny...
In 1953 Unesco published a monograph on The Use of Vernacular in Education, whose key message was t...
In many communities in Kenya, mother tongue was the language of instruction used to impart indigenou...
Mother-tongue education is considered a waste of time if the interests of people, plan, power and bu...
Scholars of language teaching agree that the development of initial literacy is best achieved when t...
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