“They do not know much, but then, you have to cover the syllabus”: The quality imperative – a dilemma for teachers’ in early grade multilingual classrooms in Kenyan primary schools
<p class="Abstract">The centrality of language in any education system cannot be overemphasised. Wolff (2006: 50) sums this up by stating that “language is not everything in education, but without language everything is nothing in education”. As such, language mediates knowledge acqu...
| Published in: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics |
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| Main Author: | Susan Nyaga |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2015-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/172 |
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