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Ani, Emmanuel Ifeanyi – SAGE Open, 2017
Recent nationalistic arguments have tended to blame the use of foreign language as responsible for poor academic performance and even underdevelopment. Although I theoretically agree with the mother tongue (MT) proposal concerning early elementary education, I identify some narrowness in the meaning of MT that drives the nationalistic school. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Elementary Education