The influence of language of instruction on students’ academic outcomes: the experience of secondary schools in Morogoro, Tanzania

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dc.creatorMwakapina, Job Wilson
dc.creatorMhandeni, Abdulkarim Shaban
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-31T08:40:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:47:09Z
dc.date.available2023-07-31T08:40:14Z
dc.date.created2023-07-31T08:40:14Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractMany have ascribed the poor performance that secondary school students in Tanzania have suffered in various school subjects in the national examinations to the students’ weakness in English, the Language of Instruction (LoI). This brief paper seeks to determine the influence of LoI on students’ academic success in secondary schools. An English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) and students’ academic archival reports provided the data and a Statistical Package for Software System (SPSS) facilitated data analysis. Analysis brought to light the finding that proficiency in LoI affects performance only to a slight extent. Non-ELP factors exert a stronger influence on performance in subjects other than English while – not surprisingly – English proficiency does indeed exercise much influence on English achievement. The study concludes that academic performance is a function of several variables and that ELP plays a role in performance but not the major role. The study recommends that the government (1) emphasize the improvement of ELP, since the greater the improvement, the more a positive influence may be anticipated; and (2) consider using ELP as an additional eligibility criterion for admission into higher education.
dc.identifierhttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5492
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/100275
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSUA
dc.subjectlanguage of instruction
dc.subjectstudents’ academic
dc.subjectMorogoro
dc.subjectsecondary schools
dc.titleThe influence of language of instruction on students’ academic outcomes: the experience of secondary schools in Morogoro, Tanzania
dc.typeArticle

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