LIST:- Shona teachers dominate Bulawayo ECD teacher recruits

One's mother tongue is an important factor which influences quality basic education.

Many developing countries, Zimbabwe being one of them, are characterised by individual as well as societal multilingualism, yet they often allow a single foreign language to dominate the education sector.

Teaching in a language that learners do not speak makes both learning and teaching of young children extremely difficult particularly when the language of instruction is also foreign to the teacher.