|
| |
| KIKAAYA COLLEGE SCHOOL |
|
P.O.Box 3353, Kampala - Uganda.
Tel: 0772404279
www.kikaayavocationalschool.com |
|
| |
| Meaning |
|
KCS - Kikaaya College School
KOSA - Kikaaya Old Students' Association.
OBs - Old Boys.
OGs - Old Girls.
BDs - Bulenga Dancers.
KDs - Kikaaya Dancers. |
|
| |
|
|
| Home |
|
| Auther: | Ssemombwe Andrew S.4 |
| Title: |
Luganda Should Be Taught Over English |
| Luganda is a vernacular language and English is a foreign one. If we teach Luganda over English, we will maintain our culture. There will be easy communication if Luganda is taught more than English. Because there is eased communication, this implies easy understanding. Students will enjoy lessons more in vernacular over English in case the language is taught. Also, Luganda is cheap compared to English where we have to buy books (like the dictionary) which are expensive.
When we teach Luganda over English, we will be maintaining our culture in one way or the other that traditions can not exist without traditional language. For good examples of countries maintaining and preserving their culture, but through promoting and favoring their vernacular languages, we know India in the east, Japan in the east, Germany, Italy and France (even England) inclusive in Europe. They are admired all over the world for their cultures. When we teach English, some traditions will perish, like greeting, and the saying of some words in Luganda, but indirectly.
If Luganda is taught more, there will be very easy communication between the students and the teacher. It is because the teacher is speaking and instructing in the vernacular language. The students will be having some experience in the language because Luganda is their mother tongue. The teacher will teach as the students communicate with him/her very well if the teacher is teaching in Luganda. The students will also be able to catch up in class. However, when they easily understand what the teacher is instructing, this means that they will have to perform as expected in the exams.
A student will also enjoy a lesson which is taught in the vernacular more than one in English. If the lesson is taught in English, the teacher will as well introduce new words which the student doesn’t know. This makes him/her to visit the library for some inquiry in the dictionary which he/she doesn’t enjoy.
Luganda is a vernacular language. This means that it is taught by the elders to the young ones who are just learning to speak without any cost. As they do so, they do not need any written document for inquiry like the dictionary which tends to cost large sums of money. Perhaps Luganda is cheap to teach. So vernacular should be taught more and we can save for the development sums of money that we spend on acquiring dictionaries from other countries like England.
In conclusion, we should teach Luganda over English so that we can extremely maintain and preserve our culture which is about to perish. Therefore, in order for students to perform well in exams, they should understand what is taught and this can only be done in Luganda. Even for students to enjoy lessons more, they should be taught in Luganda. Lastly, to save for good national development, we need to learn cheap things and Luganda is one of them. Yet, English is not.
|
| Posted |
16th Jul 2009 |
|
|
|
|