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The Role of Mother Tongue in Education

Journal of Learning and Development Studies
Mother tongue plays a significant role in education. It is a fundamental tool for facilitating learning. Without the use of the mother tongue, understanding educational concepts becomes impossible for students whose mother tongue differs from the ...
Assoc. Prof. Fawzia, Assoc. Prof. Fawzia Walizadah   +1 more
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Mother Tongue Teacher Education in Sweden

2022
This chapter looks at the development of a course for mother tongue teachers in Sweden and discusses the methodology of teaching a course that allows participants acquire a deeper knowledge about the challenges of mother tongue instruction and engages them in collaborative learning.
Natalia Ringblom, Olga Mattsson
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English language teaching and bridging in mother tongue-based multilingual education

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
This 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
Marianne Rachel G. Perfecto
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Negotiating language in a deaf classroom in Myanmar: lessons for mother tongue education

, 2020
This article reflects on mother-tongue education (MTE) and its capacity to promote equality for linguistic minorities. It is argued that the current literature focuses disproportionately on the linguistic and pedagogic details of MTE programmes, while ...
Ellen Foote
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Experiences of teachers teaching grade 4 pupils with Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE): inputs to policy development and teacher training for MTB-MLE

Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Journal (APHERJ), 2020
This phenomenological study described the experiences of 18 mathematics/science teachers of grade 4 pupils exposed to MTB-MLE from different divisions of Caraga using three modes of data gathering: survey questionnaire, classroom observation, and focus ...
Adelyne Abrea, Elvie Charie L. Ortua, Randy L. Robles   +2 more
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Mother-tongue education in South Africa: A highly contested terrain of the 21st century

, 2019
Mother-tongue education is considered a waste of time if the interests of people, plan, power and business are not aligned. In this article, suggestions are made regarding the way forward for African academics implementing mother-tongue education in ...
Medicine Magocha, D. Mutasa, J. Rammala
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Schooling with learning: The effect of free primary education and mother tongue instruction reforms in Ethiopia

Economics of Education Review, 2019
In developing regions, significant increases in primary school enrollment are often generated by large national level programs, which could simultaneously promote overcrowding and reductions in education quality. In a difference-in-differences framework,
L. Chicoine
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Linguistics and Mother Tongue Education

1987
In a recent colloquium on the state of the art of French-language research on Mother Tongue Education (MTE), a strong rejection of the applications of linguistics was expressed in such formulas as (Romian, 1983): a refusal to be confined to linguistics, and an opening to semiology and communication; a refusal of the preponderance of the linguistic ...
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Mother tongue education: necessary? Possible? Sustainable?

Language and Education, 2010
Issues affecting pre-school education in a rural area of Kenya are highlighted in a study of a mother tongue education (MTE) programme in one indigenous language group, the Pokomo. Factors supporting the introduction of MTE include official support for MTE, the welcoming of non-government stakeholder involvement in education, the presence of ...
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Adapting Mother Tongue-Based Instructional Models to Address Gender Disparities in Literacy and Numeracy Skills

International Journal of Language Education
Gender disparities in literacy and numeracy continue to challenge equitable education, especially in linguistically diverse and indigenous communities. In East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, the integration of mother tongue-based instructional models offers a
Dek Ngurah Laba Laksana, Dimas Qondias, Leonardo Veliz, Chun-Hao Chiu, Ketut Herya Darma Utami, I. G. A. A. P. Listyana   +5 more
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