A. Nyika, Mother tongue as the medium of instruction at developing country universities in a global context,Review Article, SouthNyika, A. (2015) `Mother tongue as the medium of instruction at developing country universities in a global context' South African Journal of Science http://dx.doi....
Linguistically, the “mother tongue as medium of instruction” reforms were undertaken most certainly with the best of intentions – though has apparently produced a generation of Hong Kong students that lack both versatility and depth; indeed, the emphasis upon Cantonese has not been successful at ...
The use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction debate has been on the cards fora long time now in Zimbabwe but has never had any genuine implementationcommitment from the policy makers. The study focuses on language use andchallenges teachers and pupils face in the classroom in their ...
Social reactions towards education proposals: Opting against the mother tongue as the medium of instruction in Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 14(2), 203-216.Lee, W. O. (1993). Social reactions towards education proposals: opting against the mother tongue as the...
mother tonguemultilingualismbridgingtranslanguagingThis paper shall describe the bridging strategies used by Grades 3 and 4 English teachers from schools in two regions in the Philippines to help their multilingual students transition from using the mother tongue as medium of instruction in the different ...
As with other language labels, the concepts of mother tongue and of medium of instruction reveal ambiguities. This chapter explores these labels as they are taken up in the Kumaun, with implications fdoi:10.1057/978-1-137-51961-0_6Cynthia Groff...
(redirected fromMother-tongue) Thesaurus Medical Legal Encyclopedia moth·er1 (mŭth′ər) n. 1. a.A woman who gives birth to a child. b.A woman whose egg unites with a sperm, producing an embryo. c.A woman who adopts a child. ...
Mother tongue based multilingual education in sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from within.After the political independence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the 1960s and 1970s, most of the countries chose to retain their colonial languages as their official language despite the fact ...
several occasions, what you find written boldly in most schools is “vernacular speaking is prohibited”. It is against this background that we must situate the recent adoption by the federal government of ‘mother tongue’ as a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools in the country...
in part to stem the outflow of children into theprivate sector.一定程度上遏制学生流失到私立机构 in part to一定程度上 English perfectlyexemplifies the “network effects” of a global tongue: the more people use it,the more useful it is. Over a billion people speak it as either their first ...