Eliakimu Macha

My doctoral research looked at communication in Maasai society. I pursued his primary and secondary education in schools located in Maasai community. I also worked with Support for International Change as a peer educator in Maasai community. I continue working in the field of language education, including teaching English as a second language and integrating language supportive approaches to teaching subject content and the language of teaching and learning. I am currently engaged in three projects: Evaluating language supportive approaches to transition at scale, funded by the British Council and Networking for additive multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa and Understanding understanding - Supporting understanding in the classroom through the understanding of curricula structures both funded by the Swedish Research Council.

07/21/1983

Chagga

• 2022, Book writer, Baseline Orientation Course Student’s Book, TIE
• 2022, Book writer, Baseline Orientation Course Teachers Book, TIE
• 2022, Book writer, English Form Five, TIE
• 2021, Form Four English Textbook review team member, TIE
• 2021, Form Three English Textbook review team member, TIE
• 2021, Assistant Coordinator, Language Supportive Teaching and Teaching and Textbooks, Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE), Bristol University, St John’s University of Tanzania, UDOM, 2015, 2019
• 2021, Principal Investigator, Evaluating Language Supportive Approaches to Transition at Scale (ELSATS) Research Project, British Council, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Bristol University, UDOM, 2021, 2024
• 2023, Principal Investigator, Understanding – Supporting Understanding in the Classroom through Understanding the Curricula Structures, Swedish Research Council, 2023, 2027

• Translation and Interpretation
• English syntax
• English as second language Morphology
• English registers
• Second language learning
• English pragmatics
• Modern linguistic theories
• Communication skills

• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Tanzanian
• Marital Status: Married

• Sane, E., Ndabakurane, J., Biseko, N., Ismail, M. & Mzee, O., English in Tanzanian Education: In Honour of Prof. Casmir Rubagumya’s Work Over 50 Years, Dar es Salaam University Press, In print
• Mwogella, T., Sane, E. & Shingwa, M., 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, 2023
• Mzee, A. O. & Sane, E., 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, 2023
• Rubagumya, C. R., Sane, E. & Ndabakurane, J., J., 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, 2022
• Sane, E., Gender parity and inequalities in Maasai girls’ education: Difficulties of transition to Kiswahili and English languages in primary and secondary education, University of Bath, 2022
• Sane, E., Animal Names Applied to a Person in Maasai Society, International Journal of Language and Culture, 9(2), 177-193, 2022
• Alphonce, C. & Sane, E., Toponyms and Identity in Hanang’ District: Their Origin and Meaning, Ethnologia Actualis, 19 (1), 106 – 116, 2019
• Gabriel, P., Sane, E., Alphonce, R., 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, 25 (1), 1 – 15, 2018
• Sane, E., Space and Communication: An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Maasai Society of Tanzania, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Dodoma, 2016
• Sane, E. & Yohana, R., Suitability of the Communicative Approach in Teaching English in Tanzania Secondary Schools, Arts and Social Sciences Journal, 5, 104172/2151-6200.100074, 2014
• Sane, E., Challenges of the Communicative Approach in Teaching English Language in Tanzania, MA. Linguistics thesis, University of Dodoma, 2011

HIV/AIDS Educator, Students for International Change Organization, 05/01/2005, 09/01/2005