How to help schools in low- and middle-income countries respond to children’s language needs. These guidelines are based on a research and learning project supported by CfBT Education. In many multilingual countries, teachers, families and governments know that the way language is used in education is...

Implications for Teacher Development Programs in Nigeria This report, Language, Literacy and Learning in Primary Schools: Implications for Teacher Development Programs in Nigeria, synthesizes the main findings of various studies on the quality of teaching and learning in Nigerian primary schools that were...

A comparative analysis of mother-tongue- and national-language-based preschools in Adivasi communities. Though experts widely agree that the use of mother tongue is essential to an effective, child-friendly learning environment (Dutcher 2004; UNESCO 2003; Pinnock 2009), there exists a major gap...