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Decolonizing Education: Using Mother Tongue And English Side By Side In Nigeria, Omobola Wusu
Decolonizing Education: Using Mother Tongue And English Side By Side In Nigeria, Omobola Wusu
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Nigerians lack access to effective mother tongue education (MTE) at all levels of their schooling. It is well established that cognitive and educational benefits are achieved if one’s mother tongue (MT) is used as the medium of education. This study aimed to determine how adult Nigerians around the world who had been deprived of using their mother tongues (MTs) in their education reflect on their past experiences with negative messages or colonial language ideologies received in school. Also, it explored how these past experiences have shaped their positive MT identities, their MT experiences, and their perspectives on MTE. In this …