Language of Instruction for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy: The Basics

This overview is intended to provide an orientation on core concepts and issues related to language of instruction (LOI).

Practical Language of Instruction Guide

This guide provides a roadmap for policy makers, program designers, and implementers to navigate the complexities of language of instruction options

Literature Review: The Impact of Language Policy and Practice on Children's Learning

This literature review of language policy and education quality in the 21 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region

Loud and Clear: Effective Language of Instruction Policies for Learning

This World Bank Policy Approach Paper on Language of Instruction offers an indication of the work that will be undertaken to support countries in introducing reforms.

Handbook on Language of Instruction Issues in Reading programs

Provides information, guidance and resources to understand and address language issues in primary grade literacy programs

UNICEF ESARO Guidance on Sign Language for Deaf Children's Education and its Use in Accessible Digital Teaching and Learning Materials

The guidance note focuses primarily on countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, but also helps to inform efforts in other regions.

Ensuring inclusive education for ethnolinguistic minority children in the COVID-19 era

This Guidance Note aims to stimulate thinking into the unique challenges facing children from marginalized ethnolinguistic communities

Approaches to language in education for migrants and refugees in the Asia-Pacific Region

This paper examines strategies for addressing the needs of refugee, migrant and internally displaced children in the Asia-Pacific region.

Global Education Monitoring Report 2020: Inclusion and education: all means all

This report identifies different forms of exclusion in foundational reading, how they are caused and what we can do about them.