Chatterton 1968

Chatterton, P. 1968. "The language factor in territory education." READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature.

Recommends using "both the vernacular and English throughout the school course: treating them as equal partners in the lower primary classes, giving a major emphasis to English in the higher primary classes, and perhaps making the vernacular an optional subject at the secondary level." Makes a distinction between instruction and education. "Instruction is a one-way process, in which the teacher imparts information to the pupil. Education is a two-way process, in which there is interaction between the mind of the teacher and the mind of the pupil."

Suggests thinking about the "language of education" instead of the "language of instruction." Considers the mother tongue a more useful vehicle for satisfactory interaction, and the thinking of most people as more precise and less superficial in the mother tongue than in an acquired language.

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