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Challenges in Implementing a Mother Tongue-based Language in- Education Policy: Policy and Practice in Kenya

Gacheche, Kagure (University of Leeds, 2010)

This paper is an examination of the challenges faced in implementing Kenya’s language-in education policy, which advocates mother tongue-based learning. This policy has the potential to make primary education contextually ...
Debunking the Myth of Lack of Vocabulary for Teaching Content Knowledge in Primary Schools: Exploring Terminology for Science in Ekegusii of Kenya

Mose, Peter (South African Journal of African Languages, 2020)

The language-in-education policy to teach in mother tongues at lower primary level is not adhered to by classroom teachers in Kenya due to, among other reasons, lack of content terminology. The purpose of this study was ...
Developing Mother Tongues as Academic Languages in Primary Schools in Kenya: Exploring Extent and Indispensability

Mose, Peter N.; Kaschula, Russell H. (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2019)

The language in education policy in Kenya recommends mother tongue education in primary school learning. The purpose of this study was to explore the development of mother tongues as academic languages at the lower primary ...
The Development of Trilingual Literacy in Primary Schools in Kenya

Mose, Peter N. (Rhodes University, 2015)

The Kenyan language in education policy contemplates development of trilingual literacy skills in pupils by the end of standard three. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent standard three pupils were ...
Implementing Mother Tongue Instruction in the Real World: Results from a Medium-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie S; Ong’ele, Salome (Comparative and International Education Society, 2016)

Research in sub-Saharan Africa Investigating the effect of mother tongue (MT) literacy instruction at medium scale is limited. A randomized controlled trial of MT literacy in-struction was implemented in 2013 and 2014 as ...
Kenyan Curriculum Reforms and Mother Tongue Education: Issues, Challenges and Implementation Strategies

Mandillah, Lucy (University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press, 2019)

The implementation of mother tongue education (MTE) remains a challenge across Africa and Kenya in particular. This continues despite the fact that the maintenance and development of language and literacy skills in one’s ...
Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Use of Mother Tongue as a Language Instruction in Lower Primary Schools in Hamisi District, Kenya

Khejeri, Mary (Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2014-01)

This paper examines the attitudes of teachers towards the teaching and use of Mother Tongue as a language of instruction in lower primary schools based on a study conducted in Hamis District in Western Kenya, East Tiriki ...

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