Mismatch between Indigenous Ghanaian and Hindu-Arabic Systems in Didactising Counting and Place Value

Autor/in	Ali, Clement Ayarebilla
Titel	Mismatch between Indigenous Ghanaian and Hindu-Arabic Systems in Didactising Counting and Place Value
Quelle	In: Acta Didactica Napocensia, 16 (2023) 1, S.51-65 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Mathematics; Student Teacher Attitudes; Mathematics Instruction; Foreign Countries; African Languages; Indo European Languages; Arabic; Native Language; Number Concepts; Teacher Education Programs; Contrastive Linguistics; English (Second Language); Indigenous Knowledge; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematik; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Ausland; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Indoeuropäisch; Arabisch; Number concept; Zahlbegriff; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	Studies show that indigenous languages have exhibited enormous impact on the evolution and didactics of counting and place value. However, Ghana systems have different perspectives and pose varied successes on the didactics of counting and place value. In this study, we explored a mixed methods design to examine the mismatch between Ghanaian and Hindu-Arabic systems. With a sample of 178 participants, we further examined not only student-teachers' knowledge and transitioning but also their skills and conceptualisation in didactising nine Ghanaian languages with respective to the Hindu-Arabic system. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected through test and interview instruments. They were analysed by utilising T-test, ANOVA and verbal narratives which complemented and corroborated each other. The one-sample t-test result indicates that there was no impact of Ghanaian languages on counting and place value systems. However, the ANOVA test result infers that there is an impact of indigenous Ghanaian language on counting and place value systems. The qualitative results confirmed that the student-teachers had average skills in didactising counting and place value systems in the Ghanaian indigenous languages. It was therefore recommended, among other things that, measures should be taken not only to synchronise the Ghanaian languages but also to finetune the languages in tandem with the Hindu. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01