ANALYZING THE ROLE OF INSTRUCTIONAL LANGUAGE IN ENHANCING SCIENTIFIC COGNITION OF ELEMENTARY LEVEL STUDENTS BELONGING TO MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, SINDH, PAKISTAN

The study revolves around the analysis of the efficiency of instructional language, i.e. the mother tongue, regional language, national language and international language in developing the cognition of the students relating to the subject of science at elementary level. For this study, a private school was selected through purposive sampling, where the students had a background of a diverse range of mother tongues including Urdu, Sindhi, Balochi, Pushto and Punjabi. The selected students from a class of elementary level in particular have the same native and regional language (Sindhi) who were taught selected topics of elementary level science using different languages of instruction including mother tongue, national and international language. The analysis has been made using descriptive statistics and is based on tests after the teaching sessions which clearly depict the efficiency of instructional languages in enhancing scientific cognition of the students.