Preliminary Material / Birgit Brock-Utne , Zubeida Desai , Martha A.S. Qorro and Allan Pitman -- English as Language of Instruction in Africa / Allan Pitman , Suzanne Majhanovich and Birgit Brock-Utne -- Expressing Oneself Through Writing – A Comparative Study of Learners’ Writing Skills in Tanzania and South Africa / Birgit Brock-Utne and Zubeida Desai -- English as a Medium of Instruction in Post-Primary Education in Tanzania / George A Malekela -- English-Medium Primary Schools in Tanzania / Casmir M Rubagumya -- In Defence of Continued use of English as the Language of Instruction in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Tanzania / Michael Kadeghe -- English as the Language of Instruction or Destruction – How do Teachers and Students in Tanzania Cope? / Birgit Brock-Utne -- Salient Policy Issues in the Choice of Language of Instruction in Tanzania / Justinian Galabawa -- Terminology and School Books in Southern African Languages / Babazile Mahlalela-Thusi and Kathleen Heugh -- Mother Tongue Instruction and Understanding of Natural Science Concepts in a South African Primary School / Keith Roy Langenhoven -- Implications of Changing the Language of Instruction in Secondary and Tertiary Education in Tanzania / Justinian Galabawa and Fikeni Senkoro -- Testing Students’ Ability to Learn Through English During the Transition from Primary to Secondary Schooling / Martha Qorro -- Parents’ Choice of the Medium of Instruction in Science / Vuyokazi Nomlomo -- Reflections on the Loitasa Project in South Africa / Zubeida Desai.

This book is based on chapters in a series of four books from the first five years (2002-2006) of the Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) project. LOITASA is a NUFU-funded (Norwegian University Fund) project which began in January 2002 and will continue through to the end of 2011. The chapters reflect the state of the research at the end of the first five years of LOITASA in 2006 and were selected by reviewers independent of the project. The selection of chapters brought together bring to the forefront the dilemmas facing developing countries as they seek to position themselves in an increasingly interconnected global system, while at the same time maintaining a sense of national and regional identity. The chapters in this collection reflect both positive outcomes when the medium of instruction is a widely-known language as well as the challenges of mother tongue instruction in countries where historically a powerful language like English has dominated. The four LOITASA books in this series from which the chapters in this book are drawn are: ● Language of instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA) published by E & D Ltd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ● Researching the language of instruction in Tanzania and South Africa published by African Minds, Cape Town South Africa ● LOITASA Research in Progress published by KAD Associates, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ● Focus on fresh data on the language of instruction debate in Tanzania and South Africa published by African Minds, Cape Town, South Africa. All four books are edited by Birgit Brock-Utne, the Norwegian project leader of the LOITASA project; Zubeida Desai, the South African project leader and Martha Qorro, who is on the project steering committee in Tanzania.

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