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Primary School Leavers’ English Skills and their Adequacy for Knowledge Acquisition at Secondary School: The Case of Iringa Municipality.

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dc.creator John, Philpo
dc.date 2018-03-01T16:49:37Z
dc.date 2018-03-01T16:49:37Z
dc.date 2015-12
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:53:26Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:53:26Z
dc.identifier iv. John, P. (2015). Primary School Leavers’ English Skills and their Adequacy for Knowledge Acquisition at Secondary School: The Case of Iringa Municipality. In: Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 9 (2), 60-72. Dar es Salaam: Inter Press of Tanzania Ltd
dc.identifier 0856-9965
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4613
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4613
dc.description This study reports on the connection that can be linked between student's proficiency in English skills upon leaving primary education and success in English language integrated learning at secondary level of education. Both Swahili and English medium primary school leavers were tested in reading and writing skills and the difference between them was noticeable.
dc.description This study presents an account of how primary school leavers’ level of English literacy affects their learning in English at secondary education level. It adopts CALLA2, which is an instructional model for second/foreign language learners. A total of 40 Form I students in 4 secondary schools were sampled for the study. To obtain the data, 5-minute passage reading and 30-minute writing of their short history in English were used. One interesting finding is that 10/28 (35.7%) Form I students with SM3 background who were assigned to write their short history in English could neither complete nor write comprehensively. Again, when they were given a reading task, 8/28 (28.6%) could not complete and were apparently unable to read the text. Conversely, 12/12 (100%) Form I students with EM4 background who were tested for writing were able to complete writing their comprehensible short history texts, and all 12/12 (100%) who were assigned a reading task completed reading with clear comprehension. It was, therefore, concluded that there were problems associated with ELT5 in SM primary schools.
dc.description Mkwawa University College of Education (MUCE)
dc.language en
dc.publisher Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education
dc.relation Volume 9;Number 2
dc.subject English literacy, medium of knowledge acquisition, adequacy, primary school leavers
dc.title Primary School Leavers’ English Skills and their Adequacy for Knowledge Acquisition at Secondary School: The Case of Iringa Municipality.
dc.title Primary School Leavers’ English Skills and their Adequacy for Knowledge Acquisition at Secondary School: The Case of Iringa Municipality.
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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