- Title
- A case for the adoption of Swahili as a language of early school literacy instruction in Ekegusii-speaking areas of western Kenya:
- Creator
- Mose, Peter, Kaschula, Russell H
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174645
- Identifier
- vital:42497
- Identifier
- https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/433
- Description
- Swahili, a national and official language in Kenya, is in wide use in the country as an inter-ethnic medium of communication and, generally, as a lingua franca. The operative language policy for lower primary–up to grade three–provides for the use of languages of the catchment as languages of instruction. The languages of the catchment refer to the more than 42 indigenous languages spoken in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine and discuss institutional and extra-institutional factors that might favour adoption of Swahili as the best medium–in the current sociolinguistic realities–in the ‘language-of-the-catchment-based’ literacy learning in Ekegusii-speaking areas of western Kenya. Data were obtained through classroom observations, teacher and church leaders’ interviews, observation and analysis of language trends at church worship services, and critical literature review.
- Format
- 26 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nordic Journal of African Studies, Mose, P. and Kaschula, R., 2019. A case for the adoption of Swahili as a language of early school literacy instruction in Ekegusii-speaking areas of western Kenya. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 28(2), pp.25-25, Nordic Journal of African Studies volume 28 number 2 1 25 November 2019 1459-9465
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education
Kaschula, Russell H (Prof)
RU School of Languages and Literatures
SDG 04. Quality Education
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