Dr Beth Ngugi

Dr. Beth Ngugi is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Murang’a University of Technology. She has served as a Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She also served as the Chair of Liberal Studies Department from 2018-2020 before it was elevated to a school.

Dr. Beth holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Laikipia University.   She received an M.A in Linguistics and B.Ed ( Arts)  in English and Literature From Kenyatta University. Her research area is in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics with special focus on mother tongue in education. Much of her work is on different roles of mother tongue in education and second language acquisition

Dr. Beth is co-author of Enhancing vocabulary learning in Kenya’s ESL classrooms, The Double Edged Role of Indigenous Languages in National Development: A Case of the Lower Primary Classroom in Kenyan Schools, Constraint-Based Code-switching during ESL Lessons in a Multilingual classroom and their implication in Second Language Development, and is the author of Code switching between Agglutinative and Non-agglutinative Languages: A case of Kiswahili and English Verb during English Language Lesson