Does Bilingual Specification impact students' comprehension of problems in Introductory Programming?
Sapna Grover, Arun Raman, Hema Banati · 2023
The global acceptance of English as the language of science poses challenges to its non-native speakers. There has been prior work that assesses the impact of using a native/regional language as a medium of instruction for a Computer Science (CS) class. However, since classroom instruction involves a lot of non-verbal communication as well, the methodology of those studies is difficult to replicate and hence the results are difficult to generalize. In this paper, we focus on a smaller but potentially more replicable aspect. In particular, we are interested in assessing the impact of bilingual problem specifications on student comprehension in Introductory Programming.