The Interplay between Students’ First/home Languages and School Culture on Students’ Learning of English in Tanzania
Dr Upendo P. BiswaloSt John’s University of Tanzaniaupendopsix@yahoo.co.uk; ubiswalo@sjut.ac.tz Abstract: Tanzania is a multilingual society with more than 120 spoken indigenous languages plus Kiswahili, which is the country’s national language. In Tanzania, while Kiswahili is the medium of instruction (the MOI) at the primary education level; English is the MOI at secondary education level. Although…