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THE TRANSFERABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR KENYAN STUDENTS
Author(s) -
SEDDON G. M.,
WAWERU G.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1987.tb03158.x
Subject(s) - swahili , kenya , vernacular , linguistics , transferability , mathematics education , computer science , sociology , psychology , political science , philosophy , law , logit , machine learning
S ummary . This investigation sets out to determine whether scientific concepts which have been previously acquired in one of the languages, English, Swahili or Kikuyu by multilingual Kenyan secondary school students can be transferred to the other two languages. The investigation is based on practical lessons using worksheets translated into the three languages. The results demonstrate that transfer is possible to the vernacular languages from English and between the two vernacular languages.