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Spernes, Kari Iren and Rose Ruto-Korir. 2018. Medium of instruction in school: The indigenous language, the national language or the official language? A case study from multilingual deep rural Kenya. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 39 (1) : 41–64.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

To grasp language choices amid multilingual learners and their consequences for the medium of instruction (MoI) choice in multilingual Kenya, data were gathered via surveys and interviews amid learners, teachers and head teachers in rural Kenyan primary schools. The results display that Kiswahili and English were used as the MoI. Also, learners’ multilingual affiliations and their spontaneous languages were their indigenous languages and Kiswahili. This paper thus asserts that the indigenous language, Kiswahili and English should be employed as Mols in Kenyan schools.