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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
The bumpy road to mother tongue instruction in Malawi
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Volume 29, No. 5, Year 2008
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Description
In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Malawi directed that in future Standards 1 to 4 would be taught through mother tongues. It took eight years before the pilot phase of the language policy could begin. The paper critically analyses this situation using Bamgbose's framework which says that, in Africa, language policies tend to follow one or more of the following patterns: avoidance, vagueness, arbitrariness, fluctuation, and declaration without implementation. The paper explains why the implementation of Malawi's mother tongue instruction policy has been a slow journey on a bumpy road. © 2008 Taylor & Francis.
Authors & Co-Authors
Kamwendo, Gregory Hankoni
Botswana, Gaborone
University of Botswana
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/01434630802147858
ISSN:
01434632
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Malawi