Mother tongue as a medium instruction: Lower basic school teachers’ perception
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2016-04
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Social Studies Association of Nigeria
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The purpose of the study was to find out the perception of lower basic school teachers on the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction. A total of two hundred and twenty-one (221) lower basic school teachers were randomly selected from eighty-one (81) Basic Schools in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. One hundred and one (101) teachers were male while one
hundred and twenty (120) teachers were female. A researchers’ designed questionnaire titled, “Questionnaire on Caregivers’ Perception of Play as a Way of Learning” (QCPPWL) was used to obtain the data for this study. The data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire and was analysed with the use frequency count, percentage, t-test and Analysis of Variance(ANOVA).
The findings revealed that lower basic school teachers had positive perception on the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction. The findings also showed that there was no significant difference in the perceptions of male and female lower basic school teachers on the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction. It was also unfolded that school type and teaching experience had significant
influence on the perception of lower basic school teachers on the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction. Among others, it was recommended that government should ensure that the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction at the lower basic level was implemented.
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Mother tongue, medium of instruction, lowers basic school, teachers’ perception