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Linguistic Diversity: A Contributory Factor to Reading Problems in Zambian Schools
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Tambulukani, Geofrey; Bus, Adriana G. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
A lack of familiarity with the language of teaching is blamed for illiteracy rates beyond 40% among people who live in nations in Africa or Asia in which dozens of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of familiarity with the language in which initial reading is practiced, we took the Zambian situation as a natural experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Language of Instruction, Familiarity, Illiteracy