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Eliakimu Sane (PhD)

Eliakimu Sane (Ph.D.) works as lecturer at the University of Dodoma. Sane’s focus is on the field of language education, integrating language-supportive teaching methods into the language of instruction as well as teaching English as a second language. He has also studied communication in Maasai community. Sane is currently working on three projects: Understanding – Supporting understanding in the classroom through the understanding of curricula structures, funded by the Swedish Research Council; Evaluating language supportive approaches to transition at scale, funded by the British Council; and Networking for Additive Multilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Deutschmann, M. , Zelime, J. , Barrett, A. M. , Sane, E. & Ismail, M. J. (2024). Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing and analysing curricula and practice. European Educational Research Journal. 0 (00)

https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241272676


Barrett, A.M., Biseko, J.M., Clegg, J., Mbwafu, F.A., Ndabakurane, J.J., Sane, E., Wayimba, S.J. & Bowden, R. (2024). Language learning across transition in the language of learning and teaching: An analysis of the Tanzanian curriculum. Bristol Working Papers in Education #03/2024, May 2024, School of Education, University of Bristol. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11233387.


Mwogella, T., Sane, E. & Shingwa, M. (2023). Disseminating Scientific Information to Rural Communities: Communication Strategies Used to Support Peasants‟ Comprehension and Use of Written Information, Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 17(2), 188 – 218.


Mzee, A. O. & Sane, E. (2023). Demographic Factors and Second Language Learning: What Motivates Children to Learn Another Language in the South of the Sahara? Journal of Issues and Practice in Education, 15(1), 1-11.


Rubagumya, C. R., Sane, E. & Ndabakurane, J., J. (2022). Implementing language supportive pedagogy to support content learning in Tanzania, Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa, E. J. Erling, J. Clegg, C. M.Rubagumya & C. Reilly, 170-174, Routledge


Sane, E. (2022). Gender parity and inequalities in Maasai girls' education: Difficulties of transition to Kiswahili and English languages in primary and secondary education, University of Bath.


Sane, E. (2022). Animal Names Applied to a Person in Maasai Society, International Journal of Language and Culture, 9(2), 177-193.


Rubagumya, C. R., Sane, E. & Ndabakurane, J., J. (f2021). Implementing language supportive pedagogy to support content learning in Tanzania. In E. J. Erling, J. Clegg, C. M.Rubagumya & C. Reilly (Eds.). Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 170-174). Routledge.


Sane, E. (2021). Cultural Conceptualizations of Domestics Animals and Gender on Maasai Naming Practice. Paper Accepted for Publication. International Journal of Language and Culture.


Alphonce, C. & Sane, E. (2019). Toponyms and Identity in Hanang’ District: Their Origin and Meaning. Ethnologia Actualis, Vol. 19 (1): 106 – 116


Gabriel, P., Sane, E., Alphonce, R. (2018). From Access to Quality Secondary Education: Developing Language Supportive Textbooks to Enhance Teaching and Learning of Biology Subject in Tanzania. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science. Vol. 25 (1): 1 – 15


Sane, E. (2016). Space and Communication: An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Maasai Society of Tanzania, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, the University of Dodoma, Tanzania.


Sane, E. & Yohana, R. (2014). Suitability of the Communicative Approach in Teaching English in Tanzania Secondary Schools. Arts and Social Sciences Journal, Vol. 5. DOI: 104172/2151-6200.100074


Sane, E. (2011). Challenges of the Communicative Approach in Teaching English Language in Tanzania (Unpublished MA. Linguistics thesis, the University of Dodoma Tanzania)


Learning Materials

Co-author of Baseline Orientation Course for Form One Student’s Book – Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences. Dar es Salaam: TIE

Co-author of Baseline Orientation Course for Form One – Teachers Book. Dar es Salaam: TIE


Projects

Apart from contributing to the current projects under this framework, Eliakimu has contributed to two other significant projects in Tanzania, namely “Language Supportive Teaching and Textbooks in Tanzania,” a collaboration between The University of Dodoma, St. John’s University of Tanzania and the University of Bristol, funded by the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education. He also worked on “Evaluating Language Supportive Approaches to Transition at Scale,” a collaboration between The University of Dodoma, the University of Bristol and Kotebe University, funded by the British Council.

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