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Performance in English Language has been a source of concern for a long time in Zambian secondary schools. The Examinations Council of Zambia reports from 2014 to 2021 have indicated that many learners perform poorly in English. For this reason, the study endeavoured to investigate the reason...

Language mixing is a practice of using two or more languages within a sentence or between sentences in a conversation. Despite language mixing practices being common in our communities, we do not know how primary school teachers use these practices during their class lesson since regional...

This study examined instructional strategies employed by teachers of English language and the views of pupils and educators on the availability and utilization of instructional materials in secondary schools within Lusaka District, Zambia. Guided by the pedagogical theory and a qualitative...

The general purpose of the study was to assess how primary school teachers manage the implementation of the transition from Zambian language (ZL) literacy to English at grade three. Specifically, it sought to examine whether learners are able to transfer their literacy skills from ZL to English;...

The study analyzed the strategies teachers use to integrate children’s home languages in the teaching process in selected preschools in Luampa district of Zambia. The study sought to address five research objectives: the first aimed to establish the language situation in preschool classes of...

Zambia teaches English language as a foreign and second language within its broad framework of post-colonial multilingual Zambia and late-modernity. This scenario came about because of the fact that Zambia and many other countries in the Sub Saharan region of Africa were British colonies in the...

This study examined formal teacher competence and its effect on learner reading achievement in multilingual learning contexts of Livingstone District in Zambia. Guided by the Expertise, Translanguaging, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) theories, the study addressed the following...

In the present-day multilingual Zambian society, multilingual classes are unavoidable. All classes have learners with diverse linguistic backgrounds. In Zambia, the language of instruction from grade five to tertiary level is English language and the recommended methodology in the Zambia English...

Zambia is considered as a multilingual country with most of the classrooms being multilingual. While the National Literacy Framework (2013) policy currently states that the official regional languages of instruction be used in all schools from grade one to grade four, with English taking over...

The purpose of this study was to establish the nature of oral and written corrective feedback that teachers provided to learners of English Language at grade nine level in selected public secondary schools in Kabwe District, Central Province of Zambia. The study objectives were: (i) to establish...