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ERIC Number: EJ301992
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Mother-Tongue Medium and Scholastic Attainment in Nigeria.
Bamgbose, Ayo
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, v14 n1 p87-93 1984
An evaluation of the Six-Year Primary Project showed that Nigerian students who were taught in their mother-tongue (Yoruba) for the first six years of primary school scored higher academically than students who were taught with their mother-tongue for the first three years and then were switched to English. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Official Languages, Program Evaluation
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Nigeria