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Code Switching and Its Implications for Teaching Mathematics
in Primary Schools in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Olusegun...
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Journal of Education and Practice www.
iiste.
org
ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online)
Vol 2, No 10, 2011
41 | P a g e
www.
iiste.
org
Code Switching and Its Implications for Teaching Mathematics
in Primary Schools in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Olusegun Jegede
Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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Box 44, Enuwa Post Office, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
jegedeolusegun@yahoo.
com
Abstract
The study investigated code-switching and its implications for teaching Mathematics in selected primary
schools in Ile-Ife.
The data for the study were obtained from five mathematics teachers and fifty pupils from
five purposively selected primary schools through ethnographic observation and structured interviews.
Data
collected were analysed using Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Framework model, as well as descriptive
and inferential statistics.
The results showed that teachers in the schools used code switching as an approach
to the acquisition of literacy in
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