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Publication details [#56566]

Bus, Adriana and Geofrey Tambulukani. 2012. Linguistic Diversity: A Contributory Factor to Reading Problems in Zambian Schools. Applied Linguistics 33 (2) : 141–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | language of instruction | multilingualism | primary school | reading, L1-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Zambian

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study argues that Zambian primary school students' English and Zambian language word reading fluency advances more when fundamental reading abilities are practiced in the pupils' most familiar Zambian language.