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NAME: …………………………………………………….. Index No: ………………………… SIGNATURE: …………………………. 112/2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 2 JUNE, 2019 2HOURS CALTEC ACADEMY MAKERERE Uganda Certificate of Education ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 2 2 HOURS INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: Attempt all questions All your answers must be written on this paper. Read the following passage and answer the question after it. The growing importance of providing Early Childhood Development (ECD) education to pre-school children from global, national and community perspectives continues to attract attention. Recently, the education ministry called for a framework that would see nursery schools teaching in local languages. Educationally, ECD is of remarkable brain development that lays the foundation for later learning. Economically it is more cost effective to institute preventive measures and support for children early on to compensate for disadvantages as they grow older. It is therefore, gratifying to see that government is taking positive steps towards ensuring that pre-school children in Uganda get access to ECD services. One of the important issues that are yet to be addressed is the language of instruction. The existing ECD provision by private sector prefers English as the medium of instruction, which is in conflict with the local language as medium policy in the thematic curriculum for early primary classes one to three. Apart from disjuncture between current ECD provision and the local language policy in early primary, there are a number of reasons why local languages need to be incorporated in the proposed ECD policy framework. In UNESCO’s 2016 policy paper number 24, published recently and titled ‘If you don’t understand, how can you learn?’ It is strongly argued that using the local language as a medium of instruction has a positive impact on learning. Children taught in their local languages speak with more confidence to their teachers or among themselves. This increases interaction and …