Many successful piloted programs fail when scaled up to a national level. In Kenya, this has a long history of particularly inefective implementation after successful pilot programs, the Tusome national literacy program—which ...

Code switching deals with languages in contact. In social situations code switching is characterized by the use of more than two languages in the same context. In private preschools the languages in contact are Kiswahili, ...

The role of education policy is crucial in determining improved access to education as it provides standards that guide educational practice. In Kenya, for instance, language policies provide guidelines on the language to ...

The Kenyan linguistic context is highly multilingual with over forty mother tongues. Thus, a majority of Kenyans are multilingual. As such, children from multilingual settings such as Nakuru municipality join school when ...

Latest research in policy enactment has shown a considerable failure in policies in developing countries. One of the challenges facing the execution of the language in education policy in Kenya has been its sustainability, ...

Reading research has shown that variable relationships exist between measures of oral reading fluency and reading comprehension, depending on whether the language of the text is the reader’s first language or an additional ...

Kenya is a multilingual country with over forty different indigenous languages. Its language-in-education policy for early primary education was enacted in 1976. Subsequent education commissions have not altered its core ...