TY - GEN
T1 - TEACHER PREPARATION FOR PRIMARY MATHEMATICS IN A BILINGUAL, RURAL CONTEXT IN SOUTH AFRICA
AU - Roberts, Nicky
AU - Alex, Jogymol
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In South Africa, although school language policy expects that the majority of early grade teachers should teach mathematics in an African language, initial teacher education programmes are offered in English. To investigate bilingual sense making of mathematics, students in their first year of a teacher training programme wrote the same mathematics test in two languages: English and isiXhosa, as part of the national assessment. Data from 88 student teachers revealed that their performance was better in the English version of the test. The majority of the students (69%) preferred the English version of the test. The study recommends that universities need to pay far greater attention to the teaching of mathematics in isiXhosa for the early grades.
AB - In South Africa, although school language policy expects that the majority of early grade teachers should teach mathematics in an African language, initial teacher education programmes are offered in English. To investigate bilingual sense making of mathematics, students in their first year of a teacher training programme wrote the same mathematics test in two languages: English and isiXhosa, as part of the national assessment. Data from 88 student teachers revealed that their performance was better in the English version of the test. The majority of the students (69%) preferred the English version of the test. The study recommends that universities need to pay far greater attention to the teaching of mathematics in isiXhosa for the early grades.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85180634215
SN - 9786169383024
T3 - Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
SP - 413
EP - 419
BT - Proceedings of the 44th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
A2 - Inprasitha, Maitree
A2 - Changsri, Narumon
A2 - Boonsena, Nisakorn
PB - Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)
T2 - 44th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME 2021
Y2 - 19 July 2021 through 22 July 2021
ER -