Mother Tongue Education Improves Literacy in Uganda
Abstract
Children whose first language is not the language of instruction in school are more likely to drop out or fail in early grades. Research from the Universities of Illinois and their Ugandan partners Mango Tree Educational Enterprises and the Ichuli Institute, Kampala, demonstrates that the provision of teacher support and educational resources produced in local languages can lead to large learning gains in rural, under-resourced and overcrowded classrooms.
Citation
Tofaris, E. and Thornton, R. (2018) Mother Tongue Education Improves Literacy in Uganda, ESRC-DFID Research Impact, Brighton: REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative.DOI
10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii319Is part of series
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