After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka with a group of children in Lagos. Research suggests that literacy in a mother tongue is a building block for multilingualism.
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Research tells us that multilingual literacy matters. But teaching children in Africa to read in their mother tongues as a springboard to literacy in other languages can be a fraught process.
Indigenous languages won’t survive if Indigenous kids don’t have the opportunity to speak their native languages at school.
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The question of what language(s) to teach Indigenous students, what languages to teach them in, and how to go about it has been generating a little political heat (but not quite so much light) of late…
No one-size-fits-all approach will solve Indigenous literacy problems.
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Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy is a problem without a simple solution. But it can be done. As I’ve argued previously, we need to give up the search for a one-size-fits-all approach and adopt a…