Barasa, Peter L.; Omulando, Carolyne(AJEST, 2018-09-28)
Worldwide, the field of language teaching has in the last decade been going through a revolution with the quest to come up with methodological approaches that can be regarded as efficient to effectively facilitate the ...
The revised Kiswahili curriculum is a curriculum in which Kiswahili subject is compulsory and a teacher trainee is expected to pass in the subject in order to be awarded the certificate of Primary Teacher Education (PTE). ...
Spernes, Kari Iren; Korir, Rose Ruto(De Gruyter Mouton, 2018-04-24)
The connection between multilingualism and the school curriculum continues to engender debates on language preferences because of the potential to influence the amount of learning among learners. To understand language ...
With the widespread use of English across the world, it has become essential to raise English language teachers’ awareness and sensitivity with regard to the strategies they need to deploy in designing their activities and ...
The purpose of the study was to establish how the integrated approach was used in teaching cultural practices and English language skills in the set book novel: The River and the Source by Magaret Ogola. The findings ...
Proficiency in reading has been identified as one of the most reliable indicators of whether a learner will attain the competence needed to achieve academic success and contribute actively to society. Research into the ...
Piper, Benjamin; Destefano, Joseph; Kinyanjui, Esther M.; Ong’ele, Salome(Springer, 2018-07-11)
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 ...
Pre-school teacher’s performance has become an important issue in the contemporary society given their responsibility of imparting knowledge and skills to learners by moulding them towards realizing their potentials in ...
Njoroge, Martin C.; Gathiga, Moses G.(Semantic Scholar, 2019)
Knowledge of lexical items is fundamental to the development of language proficiency. In order to appeal to young learners to comprehend the meaning of lexical items and enhance language proficiency, songs can be effective ...
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 article gives a brief analytical survey of multilingualism practices, its consequences, its benefits in education and discussions on the appropriate ways towards its achievement in education. Multilingualism refers to ...
Technology-based foreign language teaching has provided many effective strategies in the learning process. The use of technology in teaching leads to a good command of the target language with ease. Learners stand a better ...
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 ...
An examination of the Development of Language Policy in Kenya demonstrates that Policies made about Language have to such extent been faced with bottlenecks. This is attributed to colonial language policies that have ...
Njoroge, Martin C.; Gathigia, Moses Gatambuki(Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD., 2017-12-30)
An indigenous or community language is the language that nurtures the child in the early years of his or her life. The UNESCO land mark publication in 1953 underscores the importance of educating children in their community ...
The transition of children from pre-school to primary school is not a single event of change with not just immediate but also, far reaching consequences. Language factors and specifically the language of instruction is a ...
Wamalwa, Fredrick M.; Burns, Justine(ERSA, 2018-01)
Although research generally shows that teachers matter for student achievements, it is not clear what attributes make a teacher more successful in enhancing students' performance. Much of the empirical work has focused on ...
Foreign language education, particularly in French, has taken root in Kenyan education institutions namely in secondary schools, universities, language schools and in other tertiary institutions. The subject has also, as ...
Momanyi, Clara(Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009-03)
This paper discusses the effects of ‘Sheng’ in the education institutions of Kenya, and gives a general overview of its development at the expense of the official languages, that is, Kiswahili and English. While some people ...
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 ...