Cohen, Gedion (PhD)Alemie, Kidist2018-07-052023-11-082018-07-052023-11-082012-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6616The main objective of this study is to investigate attitudes of teachers, directors, Parent Teacher Associations, parents and students towards using Amharic and English as instructional languages to teaching learning process of Mathematics or Environmental Science subjects in primary grade levels on Private schools. The specific objectives are to assess capability of teachers to apply bilingual instructional education, problems on the application of bilingual instructional education, and reasons behind the application of bilingual instructional education. This is a descriptive study, which attempted to investigate attitudes of teachers, directors, Parent Teacher Associations, parents and students towards using Amharic and English as instructional languages. Data were collected through questionnaires, interview, focus group discussion and observation. 21 grade 4 Mathematics and Environmental science subjects teachers, 60 parents, and 54 students participated in the study by filling questionnaires. Interview was conducted with 3 directors. Focus group discussion was also conducted with 18 Parent Teacher Association members and 54 students. Finally 9 observation sessions were conducted while the teachers teach the mentioned subjects by Amharic and English languages. The purpose of the above instruments was to collect data about attitudes of the above-mentioned participants towards using Amharic and English as instructional languages, capability of teachers, problems, and reasons towards the application of Amharic and English (bilingual) instructional education. The result of the data from the four tools was analyzed and described qualitatively and quantitatively. The data from questionnaires was analyzed by both qualitative and quantitative method of analysis due to the presence of both open and close-ended questions. The data gathered from interview, focus group discussion and observation was analyzed qualitatively. The result shows even though teachers, directors, Parent Teacher Associations, parents and students have positive attitudes towards using Amharic and English as instructional languages in the teaching learning process of Mathematics or Environmental Science subjects on learners primary grade levels, there are many problems including unqualifiedness of one third of teachers under the application of this practice. In addition, all of the participants have their own reasons towards the application of bilingual instructional education. Finally, the study comes in to its end by suggesting some important recommendations.enInstructional LanguagesThesis