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Mzimba 72.4 27.6 Nkhata Bay 67.5 31.0 According to Table 45, the majority of the gaurdians believe that language contributes to pupils’ failure in the infant classes. 4.5.2.2 SUMMARY OF SECTION When a global view of the Northern Region is taken, the following salient facts present themselves: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) that Rumphi Chitumbuka is considered to be the most appropriate variety <strong>for</strong> use insxchols that the best Chityumbuka is spoken in Rumphi which goes to confirm what is claimed in the literature that the majority of the parents/gaurdians recognise the importance of mother tongue in education and that they would support the use of their Chichewa or Chitubmka as medium of instruction. That the majority of the parents/guardians, on the one hand, consider Chitumbuka tobe the most appropriate language <strong>for</strong> use in other domains such as the radio, the newspapers, government notices, etc, while in Nkhata Bay, on the other hand, the majority prefer Chichewa in the said domains. 4.5.3 PUPILS’ RESPONSES In all, the survey interviewed 1,105 pupils in the northern region. In this section, the responses to various salient questions will be presented. Finally, a summary of the findings will be presented. The following is the breakdown of the number of pupils interviewed in the region. Chitipa 132, Rumphi 87, Karonga 248, Mzimba 418, Nkhata Bay 220. The pupils were first requested to indicate whether or not they could read and write in Chichewa and Chitumbuka respectively. The following results were obtained; Table 46: Ability To Read And Write In Chitumbuka And In Chichewa 54
% Resdpondentys District Chichewa Chitumbuka Read Write Read Write Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Chitipa 89.4 10.6 88.6 11.4 74.2 25.8 65.2 34.8 Karonga 97.6 2.4 96.0 4.0 85.5 14.5 79.0 21.0 Rumphi 97.7 2.3 98.9 1.1 96.6 3.4 94.3 5.7 Nkhta 94.1 5.9 92.7 7.3 62.7 28.2 57.7 38.6 Bay Mzimba 90.7 9.3 89.2 10.8 90.4 9.3 87.3 12.7 From Table 46 above, the pupils show high levels of literacy in both Chichewa and Chitumbuka. The results should not be entirely surprising because the languages are closely related in both structure and vocabulary. The languages, of course, belong to the same famliy of Bantu languages. The pupils were also asked to mindictae what they consider the most appropriate variety of Chitumbuka. The following results were obtained; Table 47: Chitipa Variety of Chitumbuka % Respondents Rumphi 15.2 Mzimba 11.4 Ngoni 4.5 Henga 4.5 Phoka 3.8 Nthalire 3.0 Nkhamanga 2.3 Karonga 2.3 Other less than No response 4.5 Don’t know 11.4 55
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Page 7 and 8: 1 INTRODUCTION The availability of
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Page 11 and 12: level of understanding, whether the
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Page 21 and 22: REASONS GIVEN Easy communication Mo
Page 23 and 24: Chilomwe Chisena Chinkhonde English
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Page 27 and 28: Chichewa. This has arisen from the
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Page 31 and 32: and pressing issues to handle e.g.
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Page 39 and 40: Rumphi 75.0 25.0 Mzimba 84.7 11.1 N
Page 41 and 42: Bay Table 24 shows that English is
Page 43 and 44: preferred language is Chilambia (17
Page 45 and 46: Rumphi 17.3 Pure Tumbuka 6.7 Henga
Page 47 and 48: Pure 1.5 Mmbelwa 1.5 Euthini 1.5 Ka
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Page 61 and 62: TRA = Translation NMT = Not mother
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Page 65 and 66: Rumphi 41. 4 Mzimba 23. 9 Nkhata Ba
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Page 97 and 98: Tengani 11 2.7 Nsanje 35 8.6 Phodzo
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