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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...

English Language is the official language of Zambia which has to be taught in schools for learners to gain communicative competences. It is widely used in government, education and the business world. Because of such importance, it has a higher status quo compared to indigenous languages....

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...

This study sought to analyze the pedagogic strategies teachers use to successfully teach grade three deaf and hard of hearing learners to read English language. The objectives of the study were to; (i) Analyze pedagogic strategies teachers use to teach reading to deaf and hard hearing children....

Namibian schools face challenges with English as a language of teaching and learning, especially for transitional grade learners, leading to consideration of translanguaging strategies by the government. However, the implementation of translanguaging faces resistance in multilingual classrooms....

The purpose of the study was to analyse the translanguaging practices used by lecturers in first year classrooms at a public university in Zambia. The study was guided by three objectives as follows : to analyse the translanguaging practices lecturers use in their lectures at a selected public...

Zambia is a multicultural and multi-ethnic nation with 73 ethnic groups which equate to 73 languages spoken across the country while 7 languages are used as medea of instruction for the first four years in the primary schools. The policy has been criticised as being monoglossic. Studies in Zambia...

In Zambia, English is the official language and a language of instruction from Grade 5 going upwards. It had been a determining subject for any pupil to proceed to Grade 10. However, a policy was developed to remove English as a qualifying subject for Grade 9 examinations. The purpose of this...

In Zambia, the language in Education policy is that from Pre- school to grade four, the medium of classroom instruction is the Zonal language spoken in that region (source: National Literacy Framework,2013). The move towards this policy was necessitated by the issue of low literacy levels...

Literature in English is a beneficial subject to learners who take it. However, learner performance in national examinations has remained poor country-wide in general, and Western Province in particular as evidenced by successive Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) reports of 2013 to 2016. The...