Implementing Language-in-Education
Policy in Multilingual Mathematics
Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications

Anjum Halai; Simon Karuku

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications

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Anjum Halai ¹, Simon Karuku ¹ ^*

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¹ Aga Khan University, TANZANIA^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

In this paper, we examine selected literature on classroom-based research to understand how students and teachers (re)negotiate the language of interaction in a mathematics classroom when the official medium of instruction is different from the students’ dominant language. We identify the tensions and dilemmas associated with the implementation of language-in-education policy in selected postcolonial Anglophone countries where English is used as a medium of instruction at various stages of formal schooling. We also examine the pedagogical implications of these tensions and dilemmas, paying particular attention to emerging issues of code-switching, translation and ‘safe’ use of language.

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language-in-education policy
multilingualism
mathematics education

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2013, 23-32

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Halai, A., & Karuku, S. (2013). Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

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Halai A, Karuku S. Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(1):23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

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Halai A, Karuku S. Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

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Halai, Anjum, and Simon Karuku. "Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 1 (2013): 23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

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Halai, A., and Karuku, S. (2013). Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(1), pp. 23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a

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Halai, Anjum et al. "Implementing Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 1, 2013, pp. 23-32. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.913a