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The use of English as medium of instruction and students’ readiness to learn in English

Bahir Dar Journal of Education, 2023
This study explored the mismatch between the transition from mother tongue to English medium of instruction and teachers’ and students’ use of English. The study adopted a mixed method design.
Solomon Areaya Kassa, Daniel Tefera Abebe   +1 more
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

English and mother-tongue-based multilingual education: Language attitudes in the Philippines [PDF]

Asian Journal of English Language Studies (AJELS), 2013
In this paper, we will problematize the proposed use of mother-tongue-based instruction in the Philippines. As a country that has, for almost a century, supported the use of English in schools, this proposal marks a drastic shift in Philippine languages ...
Ahmar Mahboob, Priscilla Cruz
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

What Social Progress Indicators are Enhanced by Mother Tongue Instruction?

Journal of Educational and Human Resource Development (JEHRD), 2018
This paper investigated on what social progress indicators are enhanced by Mother Tongue Instruction as evidence of better education outcomes particularly in terms of access to basic education, access to information and communication, access to advanced education and opportunity, personal life choices, adult literacy, freedom of expression and freedom ...
null Mark B. Galdo, null Dana D. Lim
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous students learning experiences using their mother tongue when studying

Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education
This study explores the significance of using the Sámi mother tongue in the learning process for Sámi-speaking nursing students in Finnmark, Norway.
Linda Alise Okstad, June Brita Eira, Grete Mehus   +2 more
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering children’s music in the mother tongue in early childhood education: A case study in Zambia

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
The influence that the use of a familiar language has on learning has long been explored with suggestions that a child’s mother tongue is the most suited initial language of instruction in school.
Bibian Kalinde, Dorette Vermeulen
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Renewed policy interest in extended mother tongue instruction: From mother tongue-based bilingual education as transition to mother tongue-based bilingual education as transformation

South African Journal of Childhood Education
Background: Despite the rhetoric of additive bilingualism, post-apartheid South African education is characterised by hierarchical colonial arrangements in which early-exit mother tongue-based bilingual education (MTBBE) models undermine literacy at the ...
Jabulani Sibanda
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