This study compared learners’ initial reading achievements in letter knowledge, phonics and decoding skills on their entry and at the end of Grade One in Nyanja language of Lusaka and Katete districts. Speakers and non-speakers of the language of instruction in multilingual classes vis-à-vis...
Download PDF ↓This study sought to establish what Colleges of Education were doing to ensure that student teachers have requisite academic writing skills in English. The following objectives were addressed: (1) to ascertain whether student teachers were adequately exposed to writing relevant texts at secondary...
Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural...