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The Evaluating Language Supportive Approaches to Transition at Scale (ELSATS) project, funded by the British Council investigated how to improve science learning in multilingual classrooms in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Language Supportive Pedagogy (LSP), a multilingual teaching approach, was found to significantly improve students’ vocabulary, participation, and understanding of scientific concepts. In Ethiopia, action research with teacher educators showed that LSP enhanced student teachers’...

Angeline M. Barrett and Eliakimu Sane presented in a webinar for school teachers organised by Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) on 24 October 2025. The webinar was part of a series on foundational learning targeted at school teachers across Nigeria and in DRC. It introduced the principles of language supportive pedagogy in science education. The language supportive approach was developed by researchers in Tanzania for secondary education for by researchers and publishers in...

Symposium at the UKFIET Conference, 16-18 September 2025, Oxford This blog was first published by UKFIET on 20 August 2025. Authors: Angeline M. Barrett (University of Bristol, UK) and Barbara Trudell (SIL Africa) Symposium at the UKFIET Conference 2025 One of the greatest innovations of multilingual education (MLE) is that it views learners’ and teachers’ fluency in multiple languages as an asset for learning in the classroom. Given that up to 40% of learners across the globe lack access to...