PE-Language Education: Recent submissions

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‘I Use My Mother Tongue at Home and with Friends – Not in School!’ Multilingualism and Identity in Rural Kenya

Spernes, Kari (Routledge, Taylor and Francis group, 2012-07)

The present paper investigates students’ experiences of being multilingual. Qualitative data have been collected during observation, focus groups, interviews and text writing in a public primary school in rural Kenya. The ...
Digital Solutions for Multilingual Learning Environments the Case of GraphoGame Adaptations in Kenya

Puhakka, Carol Suzanne Adhiambo (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

In Kenya, poor infrastructure and a lack of resources have led to low literacy levels. Inadequate teacher training programs lack focus on the key areas related to language and learning, which are essential in multilingual ...
Communicative Practices in a Bi-/Multilingual, Rural, Fourth Grade Classroom in Kenya

Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu (University of Illinois, 2016)

Today, multilingualism in primary education is a reality that must be fully embraced in language and literacy research. Multilingualism is the norm in schools due to linguistic heterogeneity in classrooms. Despite the ...
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' 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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