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Direct linkSpronk, Tanya – Multilingual Education, 2014
Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Sudan) has been working towards the implementation of a Language and Education Policy in which the mother tongue of the learner is to be used as a medium of instruction for the first three years of primary education.…
Descriptors: Peace, Conflict Resolution, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Trudell, Barbara – Multilingual Education, 2014
This article examines a new phenomenon in language activism variously called the multilingual education working group or the multilingual education network, and abbreviated as MLEN. After an analysis of the conceptual and organizational contexts for these activist groups, the six MLENs in existence as of 2013 are described. The groups are then…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Advocacy, Multilingualism, Activism
Kioko, Angelina N.; Ndung'u, Ruth W.; Njoroge, Martin C.; Mutiga, Jayne – Multilingual Education, 2014
Varied realities surround the use of mother tongue education in Africa. These realities are entrenched in the attitudes and misconceptions that have gone unchallenged due to inadequate literature on the successful use of mother tongues in the classroom and beyond. The realities discussed in this paper include the frustrations of children…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Language of Instruction, African Languages
Mwaniki, Munene – Multilingual Education, 2014
Mother tongue education (MTE) has been a subject of rigorous debate for more than half a century, in both industrialised and developing societies. Despite disparate views on MTE, there is an uneasy consensus on its importance in educational systems, especially in the foundational years. Using the Language Management Framework, the article provides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Ansah, Gladys Nyarko – Multilingual Education, 2014
Language-in-education policy in Ghana has been in a flux since British colonial rule but particularly so after independence. A close examination of post independence language in education policies shows these fluctuating policies have moved from one form of bilingual education policy to another. Many tensions and paradoxes that arise from…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Sociolinguistics, African Languages, Foreign Countries
Mweri, Jefwa G. – Multilingual Education, 2014
In Kenya, the only official document that deals with the use of mother tongue (MT) in Schools is the 1967 Gachathi report. The report has clear-cut guidance and policy regarding MT use by the hearing children. However, for deaf children, no such policy exists; therefore, the use of the deaf child's MT (Kenyan Sign Language (KSL)) in schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Language of Instruction
