Integrating MLE into the curriculum.





Effective MLE curriculum design requires carefully crafted teaching materials and assessments that promote literacy and subject-area competencies, with assessments being supportive rather than summative and aligned with MLE goals. Integrating MLE into the curriculum 

PRACTICAL ACTION: Integrate MLE into the curriculum with an emphasis on mother tongue education from the earliest grades. This approach builds foundational literacy and language skills while fostering respect for learners’ heritage languages and cultural backgrounds. 

Key considerations include to: 

• Encourage teachers and caregivers to use learners’ home languages exclusively in early childhood and pre-primary programmes.

 • Introduce language skills systematically, listening before speaking, speaking before reading, reading before writing. 

• Introduce learners systematically to additional languages, only after they have mastered the corresponding skills in their mother tongue, using similar methodologies and materials.

 • Engage with community stakeholders to integrate local culture, knowledge and values into the MLE curriculum.




 Learning: Curriculum, teaching and learning materials, and assessment.

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