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South African Journal of Childhood EducationBackground: South Africa’s commitment to mother tongue-based bilingual education (MTBBE) depends not on language policy but on teachers’ capacity for early reading instruction in indigenous African languages.
Nombuyiselo C. Zondi
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
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Promoting African languages through play-based learning in early childhood education
Perspectives in EducationThe Department of Education’s Language in Education Policy supports mother tongue instruction in the early grades, emphasising African languages. The importance of strong mother tongue instruction leads this study to explore play-based pedagogy to ...
Roy Thungavel Venketsamy, Annaly Strauss
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The importance of mother tongue maintenance in international schools [PDF]
Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2019 The increasing mobility of people implies an increasing number of students who start mastering two or more languages. A number of educational institutions provide schooling for different populations of migrant children. International schools are one type
Milošević Olja
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Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The academic success of international students who speak English as a second language (L2) hinges on their ability to effectively communicate and comprehend information in English, which requires well‐developed listening skills. Given that real‐world listening mostly involves processing both auditory and visual information, incorporating ...
Shanshan He, Ruslan Suvorov
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Bahir Dar Journal of Education, 2023 This study examined whether learning in the mother tongue affects students’ English proficiency in the State of Amhara. It also explores experiences across the world to look for possible means of equipping students with the required competences of ...
Melaku Gebremeske
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Cogent EducationMother-tongue education is an absolute precondition of equitable access to quality education, especially in multilingual settings. Its benefits are well established, yet many education systems continue to systematically marginalize effective mother ...
Jeilan Aman Gobana
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Mother tongue as the medium of instruction at developing country universities in a global context
South African Journal of Science, 2015 One of the factors attributed to poor performance of some indigenous students at universities in developing countries is the use of a second language – mainly English and to some extent French – as the language of instruction at the universities ...
Aceme Nyika
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Mother Tongue as a Resource for Learning German as a Language of Instruction in Austria
LANGUAGE: Codification, Competence, Communication, 2023 Abstract Background. Since the outbreak of a large-scale war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have found themselves in a situation of forced migration, had to adapt to the Austrian school system, learn a new foreign language and adapt to a new team and ...
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Journal for Language Teaching, 2018 The paper sought to investigate Grade 7 pass rates in Zambian languages, English, maths and science subjects for three groups of students following Zambia’s change of initial literacy of 1996 from English to Zambian languages; to compare the pass rates ...
B. Nchindila
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