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Thomas Lloyd; Dean Yang – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
How does early educational quality affect longer-term academic outcomes? We shed light on this question via a natural experiment in the Philippines--the implementation of a mother tongue education policy in public schools in kindergarten to Grade 3. This policy led to an unexpected decline in educational quality, but differentially in a subset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Native Language
Motunrayo Adeosun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this qualitative study, the experiences, training, and challenges of teachers in primary schools in a community in southwest Nigeria were explored. The purpose of this study was to identify the experiences of teachers about their training for mother tongue instruction and how they teach pupils with the mother tongue or local language of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, STEM Education, Native Language
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Khama Mashuro; Leonie Gysbertha Higgs – South African Journal of Education, 2025
In this study we critically investigated English as the language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in the Chivi district (Zimbabwe) and the implications of its use as the LoLT for social justice education. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, focus-group interviews, observation and document analysis. The results show that social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Social Justice, English (Second Language)
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Zwelivumile Malindi; Clever Ndebele; Berington Zanoxolo Gobingca – South African Journal of Education, 2023
Mathematics is one of the critical subjects studied worldwide and is a major for all science faculties and careers. However, it is 1 of the subjects in which performance is poor in all educational phases and bands. Therefore, with this research we aimed to consider the use of mother tongue in the learning and teaching of mathematics in schools.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education
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Akhil Kumar Singh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks a significant shift in India's educational framework, particularly with its emphasis on multilingual education (MLE) and mother tongue-based instruction (MTI). Recognizing India's vast linguistic diversity, the policy advocates for teaching in the mother tongue or local language until at least Grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Native Language, Educational Policy
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Willem van de Waal; Maxwell Agyei Ashon; John P. Comings – Prospects, 2024
The Strategic Approach to Girls' Education (STAGE) project developed and implemented an intervention that helped marginalized out-of-school girls in the northern regions of Ghana enter and be successful in primary school. STAGE builds on the Government of Ghana's Complementary Basic Education policy, which supports an accelerated learning program…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries
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Seyat Polat; Sarah Désirée Lange – Review of Education, 2025
The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to closely examine the research on the beliefs of pre-service and in-service primary school teachers on multilingualism. A comprehensive review of published international literature was conducted based on an online search using Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ, APA PsycINFO and ERIC using specific…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes
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Thulelah Blessing Takane; Hamsa Venkat – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2025
In this paper, we detail the outcomes of a small-scale intervention study that aimed to support the mathematising processes of Grade 2 South African learners when working with additive relations problems. We report on the mathematising shifts that were evident in pre- and post-test responses prior to and after a sequence of 13 intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Mihaela Gazioglu; Mikel W. Cole – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Translanguaging pedagogies support multilingual students by activating prior knowledge, integrating home languages and cultures, and utilizing multimodal learning. However, as equity-oriented pedagogies, they redress long-standing practices of denying students access to their home languages or demanding a strict separation of their interwoven…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Translation, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Benson, Carol – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper describes an innovative bilingual education program developed and implemented in 208 primary classes in Senegal from 2009 to 2018 by a Senegalese NGO working with the national Ministry of Education to address issues of quality in primary education. "L'approche simultanée" or simultaneous approach, also known as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Nongovernmental Organizations
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Tina Cok – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
In terms of integration policy, Slovenia is considered a country that promotes the integration of children with an immigrant background into schools as quickly as possible. However fast the integration process may be, languages always play a key role in the education of pupils with an immigrant background and teachers need to adapt to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Inclusion
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Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
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Kella Narki Merlain-Moffatt – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2024
The role of language in education policies and the importance of civic engagement are well documented. What is less clear is how they converse with one another to inform how to develop active citizens who are empowered in their mother tongues. Building on a conceptual framework of civic engagement and linguistic injustice, this article asks: After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Youth
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S. Kanageswari Suppiah Shanmugam; Arsaythamby Veloo; Yus'aiman Bin Jusoh Yusoff – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Language as a cultural element influences Aboriginal pupils' mathematic performance. This study examines the utility of oral test in native language for computation and word problem mathematics items using score comparability. The sample includes 230 Grade 5 Orang Asli pupils from eight Malaysian primary schools in two states. By employing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Tests
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Yonattan Araya Zemaryam – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study uncovers controversies about the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Ethiopia. It examines motives for the use of the mother tongue as a medium of instruction at the elementary level, and on which grounds the rights of minority linguistic groups to be instructed in their mother tongue are overlooked. To this effect, data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language, Minority Groups
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