Emma Carter|Ricardo Sabatés|Pauline Rose|Kwame Akyeampong
Sustaining literacy from mother tongue instruction in complementary education into official language of instruction in government schools in Ghana
University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge|University of Sussex
paper presents evidence literacy trajectories children ghana enrolled complementary basic education programme taught mother tongue transitioned government schools point transition find children enrolled government schools language instruction differed instruction mother tongue perform well literacy year government schools taught another local language caught contrast transitioned english evidence reinforces benefits mother tongue local language instruction progress literacy