[lg policy] Bibliography: The influence of language policy in education on mathematics classroom discourse in malawi: the teachers' perspective

[Harold Schiffman]

The influence of language policy in education on mathematics classroom
discourse in malawi: the teachers' perspective
Author: Elias Kaphesi a
Affiliation:    a Malawi Institute of Education, Malawi


Published in:  Teacher Development, Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2003 ,
pages 265 - 285
Subject: Teachers & Teacher Education;
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Abstract
The study investigated the influence of language policy in education
in a bilingual mathematics classroom in the first four years of
primary school in selected schools in Malawi. The sample consisted of
mathematics teachers from primary schools in Zomba District. Classroom
observation and clinical interviews were conducted with teachers who
each taught a lesson in Chichewa and also in English. The findings
showed that teachers experience dilemmas and tensions in the use of
either Chichewa or English in mathematics teaching partly owing to
language policy in education. Implications for the teaching of
mathematics in either the local or foreign language were discussed.
Teachers found code switching the most rewarding use of local language
or foreign language in the mathematics classroom.

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