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Bay The results show that Chitumbuka is the most preferred language for use in government notices in three districts, namely, Karonga, Rumphi and Mzimba. This is followed by Chichewa. In Nkhata Bay, the same pattern observed above appears where Chichewa is the most preferred language followed by Chitonga and Chitumbuka each with 21.4%. Finally, guardians were requested to indicate what language(s) they would want social workers to use. Table 42 shows the results: Table 42: Language To Be Used By Social Workers % Respondents District Eglish Chichewa Tumbuka Nkhonde Tonga Swahili Lambia Yao Bandia Karonga 5.1 15.3 51.1 26.5 Chitipa Rumphi 21.3 73.3 Mzimba 8.2 14.9 73.9 Nkhata Bay 46.0 24.6 26.2 0.8 0.8 The picture that emerges here shows that the preferred language for use by the social workers in Karonga, Rumphi and Mzimba is Chitumbuka. However, in Nkhata Bay the most favoured language is Chichewa followed by Chitonga and Chitumbuka respectively. A summary of the results given in the tables above show that in the Chitumbuka speaking areas of Rumphi and Mzimba, the language most preferred is Chitumbuka, followed by Chichewa and then English. In Karonga where only a part of the district speaks Chitumbuka, the preference for this language is not as overwhelming as in Rumphi and Mzimba. In Nkhata Bay, Chitumbuka is clearly not favoured. As stated above, this probably reflects the fact that this district does not linguistically accept domination in Chitumbuka. Parents/gaurdians were alos asked whether or not they would like their children to be taught in Chichewa, on the one hand, and Chitumbuka, on the othe hand. The results are tabulated below: 52
Table 43: Whether To Be Taught In Chichewa and Chitumbuka % Respondents District Chichewa Chitumbuka Yes No Yes No Karonga 70.4 29.6 70.4 29.6 Rumphi 72.0 24.0 92.0 6.7 Mzimba 61.9 34.3 81.3 17.2 Nkhata Bay 77.0 23.0 61.9 37.3 From Table 43 it is clear that guardians prefer the use of Chichewa as a medium of instruction, as well as the teaching of Chitumbuka. Parents/gaurdians were further requested to indicate whether they want pupils to be taught in Chitumbuka. The results were as below: Table 44: Want To Be Taught In Chitumbuka % Respondents District Yes No Karonga 75.5 22.4 Rumphi 61.3 32.0 Mzimba 72.4 27.6 Nkhata Bay 67.5 31.0 From Table 44 it is apparent that the majority of the parents/guardians want pupils to be taught in Chitumbuka. Parents/gaurdians were also requested to indicate whether or not language was a contributing to pupils’ failure in infant classes. The results are as tabuklated below: Table 45: Language As A Factor In Pupils Failure % Respondents District Yes No Karonga 75.0 22.4 Rumphi 61.3 32.0 53
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Page 41 and 42: Bay Table 24 shows that English is
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Page 45 and 46: Rumphi 17.3 Pure Tumbuka 6.7 Henga
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mentioned the Nsanje variety, anoth
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grammars and dictionaries. (iv) The
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