Education

In 2005, the government of Malawi introduced computer studies as an examinable subject in Malawian secondary schools. According to the Malawi School Certificate of Education Computer Studies syllabus, the rationale for this decision was that computer literacy is becoming important in everyday life and as such Malawian secondary school students need to have the skills to use computers so that they can be of benefit in the present social economic environment in terms of self-employment, entrepreneurship and further education.

Computers are increasingly becoming an essential part of our life. Their use covers a wide range of activities such as study, computation, data analysis and many other applications.

This is a qualitative research that draws on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis methodology to analyze the discourse practices of the mathematics teacher educators in initial teacher training colleges in Malawi. The study involved four mathematics teacher educators in two teacher training colleges located in two different regions of Malawi. Specifically the study explored the following questions: 1) What are the discourse practices that mathematics teacher educators display in their descriptions of multilingual mathematics classrooms?