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In my personal opinion I think teaching learners with their mothers tongue it is such a great idea.It makes them understands the subject nor content better.

Ntekiso Aseza

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Nelson mandela once said "if you talk to a man in a language he understand, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart"
That speaks volume when it comes to our home language is very important,and olden days were forced to use afrikaans as medium of instrution and student fought for that i think now we need to fight to be taught in our languages. Because they are school that use afrikaans as medium of instruction even though they say english must be..

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By using the learners’ home language, schools can help children navigate the new environment and bridge their learning at school with the experience they bring from home. Second, by using the learners’ home language, learners are more likely to engage in the learning process. School readiness and school success for children who are dual language learners are tied directly to mastery of their home language. This series of handouts is designed to provide staff and families with basic information on topics related to children learning two or more languages. They emphasize the benefits of being bilingual, the importance of maintaining home language, and the value of becoming fully bilingual. These easy-to-read resources highlight important information that every adult living or working with young dual language learners should know.

Vuma Gino Zingqi

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As much as we think using a child's mother tongue to teach them in a classroom with a book that comes from the department written in English is of help because "they understand better" it is not if the child struggles when they have to put the answer on paper because now they don't have the required words in English and therefore their answers are wrong. It's crucial to let the learner's practice in the classroom and make their own mistakes there so that they get comfortable and be able to try a bit by bit to speak and answer in the foreign language, yes we can code switch now and again but that shouldn't be something that we rely on because it's not giving justice to the learner's at all and as teachers maybe it should also begin with us than expecting miracles from the students because if we ourselves are not comfortable with English how do we expect our learner's to be?

Lumka Makasi

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Using the child mother tounge for tuition is a great idea,however in South Africa only 2 languages are taken to account for education only English and Afrikaans which Is wrong. All 9 languages should be recognized and used in the education system because a child understand way more better when they use their language than others

Zikhona Msoncelwa
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Our observations showed us there is a great need for developing and adapting teaching and learning resource materials. We decided to extract all key terminology from the lesson plans, including glossaries from textbooks, in order to form resource packs. In this way, teachers were able to access material that together we developed for use in their lessons.

As the dual-medium team, we introduced a range of materials that disadvantaged schools do not currently have access to. We translated these materials into isiXhosa in order to form bilingual teaching materials.

Mathematics posed a tremendous challenge during this process. Learners find it very difficult to read English textbooks. The content and themes of mathematics and science textbooks are for the most part unfamiliar to them, the vocabulary strange, and new words are introduced at a very rapid pace.

We did not start from scratch in materials development. We translated learning area work schedules and key scientific and technical terms for wall posters. In workshops, we showed the teachers how to plan a bi- or unilingual lesson and develop appropriate materials. We taught teachers methods of choosing textbooks that have, among other things, a good balance of content and teaching methodology. In this process, we had to take into account the mindset of teachers and bolster their self-confidence, so that they would be able to develop teaching and learning support materials in our absence.

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Children learn better and faster in a language they can understand and that also helps to prevent delays in learning. It is an advantage because their understanding and performance improves when they learn what they can relate to.

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Teaching Learners with their home language is good because they get to understand what is taught much better. However, they going to face a lot of challenges when they meet the real world because they did not familiarize themselves with English as it is the common Language

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It is a disadvantage to to teach learners using their mother tongue because they will not familiarize themselves with English and it's going to be a struggle for them when they have to further their studies. They're going to struggle to when they get to Tertiary in terms of presentations and when they have to communicate with others as they did not familiarize themselves with English

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Disadvantage of using mother tongue during teaching and learning

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Disadvantage of using mother tongue during teaching and learning

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Yes, learners will understand and feel comfortable in the school.

But during the examination time they would feel pressure because the question papers are written in English. So it would be difficult to them to understand the paper and that will result in pour academic status.
It could be better if the teachers use English language during the lessons and use the mother tongues where is necessary.

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This is a good idea the problem is that our subjects are intergrated with the International standards, so it will be difficulty to name similar scientific phinominons in different languages.

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For me there is nothing wrong with teaching learners with their mother tongue because that give confidence and courage

This system of being taught in English is also killing the learners confidence imagine a Kid that grew up in Eastern Cape and up to matric then goes to tertiary his/her English will be a mockery in Class and he won't  have confidence to answer or debate in class.

So my opinion is that if kids would be taught in their mother tongue all of them and only get English in tertiary it would be better because no one is gonna be better than the other they will all be in introductory phase of English language.

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Advantages and disadvantages of teaching students with thier mother's tounge.

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Advantages and disadvantages of teaching students with thier mother's tounge.

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The idea is good , learner's would feel school as home as they will be more comfortable on asking questions, and replying on answers and even with understanding the questions yet I don't think it will work for the learner's because we don't only study on our locations, there's a time after grade 12 where student get to explore on different countries, in Collages, or universities with different learner's that speak different languages how will those learners that have been educated with thier mother's language communicate with others? This would be difficult for them.

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think of the disadvantages of teaching learners in isixhosa in particular, don’t you think that by nurturing a child’s mind at an early age to think and speak In isixhosa would somehow disadvantage them? We have to keep in mind that we are grooming them to compete in universities or even the world at large with different kinds of learners from different kinds of backgrounds and races whereby they will have to use the language of communication, teaching and learning which is “english”. Imagine how difficult will it be for that learner who has been groomed,first of all to think in Isixhosa and speak in isixhosa ? Won’t he struggle to learn and communicate with others ?

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Teaching learners in their mother tounge can make it much more simpler for them to understand and I can be an advantage to many learners, but unfortunately the government only believes that the should be one common language for learning and they do not want to consider the good outcomes of teaching every subject in the child's mother tounge

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Being taught in your mother tongue would indeed lead to positive and outstanding results and understanding to many learners. This approach would be very easy for learners as they could gain more knowledge in many subjects. But this approach would be very tricky because students won't see the need to learn other languages than they won't have good communication with people from other races.

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Teaching other subjects using learner's home language ( Isixhosa) may result to good academic excellence.

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Teaching other subjects using learner's home language ( Isixhosa) may result to good academic excellence.

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Having a strong mother tongue ( Isixhosa) foundation leads to a much better understanding of the curriculum as well as a more positive attitude towards school.  Learning using Isixhosa may help one to understand the difficult concepts and explaining it broader using real-life contexts. During teaching and learning a teacher should also use visuals to do demonstrations so  that the child can exercise his/her critical , analytical and literacy skills. Teaching a child in their home language also help in boosting the child's confidence. The child becomes more equipped and challenging even to the teacher and that makes the learning more exciting.

Natho Sanele
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