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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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A scoping review of service user experiences of potential harm in early intervention in psychosis services in the UK

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services provide care for individuals experiencing first‐episode psychosis and are considered both clinically and cost‐effective. While many have positive experiences of EIP, there have also been reports of perceived harm.
Georgie Hudson, India Francis‐Crossley, Craig S. Mackie, Rachel Hiller, James B. Kirkbride, Claire Powell   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilingual Education in Ethiopia: Use of the Mother Tongue and Lingua Franca

Ethiopia is a multilingual and multiethnic country with more than 80 ethnic groups and languages. While the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front promoted mother-tongue education, it urged the use of Amharic as lingua franca.
Tonegawa , Yoshiko
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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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Some culture is hiding in plain sight in research on child development

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Child development is cultural in nature, yet a divide persists between a (cross‐)cultural developmental science niche alongside a seemingly a‐cultural mainstream. In particular, childhood research relying on convenience sampling in often Western, post‐industrial (i.e., WEIRD) societies rarely ventures into issues of culture and context ...
Roman Stengelin
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Transitions from Mother Tongue Instruction to English as the Medium Instruction

, 2019
International evidence is clear that there is no best practice in transitioning from mother tongue to English as the medium of instruction in low and middle-income countries. Many studies found in the development of this helpdesk report provided in-depth
Pearl Boateng (19280680)
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Speaking with the hands—fine motor skills, language, and the role of gestures

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous investigations link fine motor skills (FMS) with language development. Studies also examined relations between motor actions and gestures, as well as between gestures and language. However, little research has systematically investigated fine motor skills, manual gestures, and language within the same study or investigated their ...
Rebecca E. Winter, Heidrun Stoeger, Sebastian P. Suggate   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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A STUDY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTHER TONGUE AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

Language is the most important part of any culture and community. In a multilingual society, an individual gets an opportunity to familiarize with more than one language, other than his/her mother tongue. In such society, language of instruction need not always be the mother tongue of the individual or the regional language; it can be a foreign ...
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English as the Lingua Franca and the Economic Value of Other Languages: the Case of the Language of Work of Immigrants and Non-immigrants in the Montreal Labour Market. [PDF]

With data from the 2006 Canadian census, we investigate the determinants and the economic values of different languages used at work in the Montreal metropolitan area.
Gilles Grenier, Serge Nadeau
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