At the earliest foundational level of learning, we have to teach children in the language of their heart. This will easily stimulate their mental faculties and cognitive abilities
Impact of local languages in early childhood education
This is a sample text for an upcoming journal article that addresses the impact of foreign languages as a means of education or language of instruction (LoI) for early childhood education.
This five-year project, implemented by the Education Development Center (EDC) and other partners and funded by USAID, aims to improve the reading performance of community school students by the project end-date of 2017. Among other activities, the project includes development of new Grade 1 reading textbooks and the delivery of library boxes to community schools. In a preliminary report of early grade reading assessment for the project, Pollard and Gardsbane (2013) found that learners performed poorly in basic reading skills in local languages as “a number of schools report that they teach reading in English, not the local language, even in early grades” (p. 4).
This is a sample text for an upcoming journal article that addresses the impact of foreign languages as a means of education or language of instruction (LoI) for early childhood education.