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SUMMARY:Medium of instruction policy and multilingual pupils’ experience
  of learning to read and write in primary school in Cameroon - Dr Genevoix
  Nana\, Open University
DTSTART:20120123T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:This study draws on the experience of 4-7-year-old Year 1 pupi
 ls learning to read and write in English and French for the first time in 
 four primary schools (two Anglophone and two Francophone) in the context o
 f Cameroon.  It uses focus group and individual interviews to elicit pupil
 s’ views about their experience of language learning in and out of the c
 lassroom and teachers’ perception regarding children’s language use in
  school. A participant observation approach for the study engendered a fri
 endlier rapport between the researcher and the researched and was useful i
 n following up pupils’ language practice in the playground in the school
 s studied.  \n      While in the two Anglophone schools in the study a ban
  on the use of Pidgin English permeated pupils’ perception of the releva
 nt language to use in school\, teachers’ attitude towards pupils’ lang
 uage use in both Anglophone and Francophone schools and their insistence o
 n the use of the school language contributed to the inhibition of pupils
 ’ mother tongue and the misconstruction of its value. However\, teachers
 ’ attitude towards pupils’ language use in school appeared to be in co
 ntrast with recent language in education policy and curriculum development
 \, particularly in primary education in Cameroon.  An apparent language in
  education policy shift was still to be evidenced by a paradigm shift in t
 eachers’ perception of the appropriate language to be used in school. In
  spite of teachers’ castigation of the use of Pidgin English and pupils
 ’ mother tongue in school\, views from pupils showed their attachment to
  these languages as a result of using them in the home with parents\, gran
 dparents and siblings.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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