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Title: | The importance of the mother-tongue as medium of instruction |
Author: | Fafunwa, A. Babs |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Nigeria Magazine |
Issue: | 102 |
Pages: | 539-547 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | languages of instruction mother tongues |
Abstract: | Thesis: the Nigerian child should acquire skills and attitudes through his mother-tongue. Under the present primary system (of bilingual education) the result is that the child is neither proficient in the mother-tongue nor in English. A number of factors is responsible for this state of affairs: the teacher himself: absence of a sound and feasible national language policy for Nigeria, both in English and in the local language; lack of adequate teaching aids and materials both in English and in the mother-tongue. After enumerating four identifiable areas in which immediate restitution needs to be made, the author describes a long range project of the Faculty of Education: a Six-Year Primary School Project in Yoruba as a medium of instruction in the first six classes starting January 1970. |