A team of researchers in the areas of literacy and education from the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University is providing technical assistance to the University of Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria. This technical assistance focus on the Development of an Effective Tool for Multi-Lingual Medium of Instruction (M -LMoI) at Lower Basic Education Level (LBEL). The FSU team is supporting the review of literature, methodology design and data analysis that will inform the development of the tool. In addition, the FSU team will provide capacity building to the staff in the Department of Languages and Linguistics on the use of the tool.