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Attitude of Teachers towards Use of Mother Tongue as Medium of Instruction in Lower Primary Schools in Bungoma South Sub- County, Kenya

Manyonyi, Joan,; Mbori, Bob; Okwako, Erick (Contemporary Research Center CRC Publications, 2016-07)

This study set out to investigate the attitude of teachers towards use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in lower primary schools in Bungoma South, Kenya. Although the language policy in Kenya is that mother ...
Bilingualizing Linguistically Homogeneous Classrooms in Kenya: Implications on Policy, Second Language Learning and Literacy

Mose, Peter Nyakundi (Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)

Bilingualism characterizes people in linguistically heterogeneous settlements like Nairobi among other urban centers in Kenya. But the country is also predominantly rural (where you find people of a common language settled ...
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 ...
The Efficacy of Using Mother Language in the Teaching of Mathematics and Science in Primary Schools: Evidence from Grade One Classrooms in Kenya

Njoroge, Martin C. (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017)

Despite the evidence from multilingual education research that states the pedagogical benefits accrued when a child is taught in the mother language, obstacles to the acceptance of its use and implementation in education ...
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 ...
Kenyan Indigenous Languages in Education: A World of Potential Benefits

Ondari, Hellen Kwamboka; Michieka, Martha Moraa (Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2014)

Both African and international second language studies show that children who go through strong bilingual models which involve late exit from mother-tongue (L1) to a second language (L2) perform better linguistically and ...
Language of Instruction in Kenya: Focus on Lower Primary in Schools in Rural Areas

Oluoch, Elizabeth Asewe (European Centre for Research Training and Development UK, 2017)

The use of mother tongue as a language of instruction debate has been ongoing in Kenya as well as in other African countries with no consensus from researchers and policy makers. This paper focuses on the use of mother ...
The Teacher as a Contributory Factor in Failure to Implement Mother Tongue Education Policy in Nandi County, Kenya

Kitur, Joseph Patrick; Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji (International Institute of Academic Research and Development, 2019)

This study sought to examine the teacher as a contributory factor in failure of Mother Tongue Policy implementation in Nandi County Kenya. The teacher as well as other stakeholders have been blamed for the lackadaisical ...
Teachers' Views and Practice: The Place of the Mother Tongue in the Implementation of the Kenyan Language-in-education Policy

Jones, Jennifer M. (Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, 2008)

Abstract This paper reports on an ethnographic study which investigated the varied responses of teachers to both the Kenyan language-in-education policy (Mother Tongue as subject and as medium of instruction) and the ...
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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