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Mostert, Ingrid – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
A number of post-colonial countries in Africa have introduced home language instruction for the initial years of schooling. This policy is particularly challenging in mathematics, as there is a paucity of research on how the linguistic features of African languages might be leveraged for the teaching and learning of mathematics. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, African Languages, Mathematics Instruction