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Factors affecting Grade 6 learners’ reading performance in a rural school in Maluti, South Africa
Background: Rural learners face severe reading challenges that are unique to their environment. The challenges include parents’ low level of …
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Literacy matters in sustainable livelihood development among refugee adults in South Africa
Background: Political and economic upheavals in the current millennium globally have displaced millions of people, making cross-border and forced migration …
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Pedagogical choices to integrate theory and practice: Conceptualisation and insights for literacy teacher education
Background: The theory and practice divide is a persistent conundrum in teacher education. Moreover, foundation phase literacy teacher education is …
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Five Grade 7 learners’ understanding of comprehension skills at a quintile 5 school in South Africa
Background: Research into language and reading scores show that South African learners struggle to read for meaning. Many local researchers …
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Learners’ reading between the signs in the English second language classroom
Background: In South Africa, developing criticality among learners is essential for their careers in school and outside school. However, knowledge …
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Using role play and explicit strategy instruction to improve first-year students’ academic reading proficiency
Background: Many first-year students find the reading of academic texts to be challenging and overwhelming. In particular, first-year students studying …
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Tracing the usage of the term ‘culture of reading’ in South Africa: A review of national government discourse (2000–2019)
Background: South Africa’s long-standing reading crisis is well recognised. At various stages since 2000, national government has presented the inculcation …
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Improving higher-order comprehension skills of Grade 3 learners in a second language at a quintile 2 school, in Cape Town, South Africa
Background: Developing higher-order comprehension skills of learners in primary schools is a challenge that faces many countries. South Africa is …
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Using flashcards for English second language creative writing in Grade 1
Background: English Second Language (ESL) learners have difficulty constructing sentences due to internalising information in their home language and thereafter …
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Content analysis of levels and aspects of comprehension in West African senior secondary school examination
Background: Reading is one of the most complex and exclusively human mental activities. It is a foundational skill for all …
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Advancing text prediction skills through translanguaging
Background: Making predictions on how events might unfold when reading a text improves comprehension. Research on reading and making predictions …
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The benefits of an extensive reading programme implemented in two Foundation Phase classrooms in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Background: This article reports on a responsive extensive reading programme (ERP), involving Grade 3 learners at two primary schools in …
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Information and communication technology reading interventions: A scoping review
Background: Information and communication technology (ICT) reading interventions can help children with reading difficulties, especially those in resource-constrained environments who …
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Investigating the interpretation and implementation of policies that guide the teaching of reading in the Foundation Phase
Background: There is growing international awareness of the dividends of early reading success and the consequences of early reading failure. …
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Experiences in a tutoring programme for BEd Foundation Phase isiXhosa first-language students
Background: IsiXhosa students enrolled for the BEd Foundation Phase qualification at a university in South Africa failed their first year …
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A linguistic analysis of spelling errors in Grade 3 isiXhosa home-language learners
Background: Spelling is a vital component of literacy. This is because spelling includes multiple metalinguistic components, such as phoneme-grapheme awareness, …
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Critical reading perceptions and practices of English First Additional Language learners in Gauteng, Tshwane South district
Background: Apart from being a knowledge-gaining commodity, critical literacy is believed to be a practice that exists between people, groups …
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Oral language teaching in English as First Additional Language at the Foundation Phase: A case study of changing practice
Background: Despite South Africa’s huge investment in professional development, there is not a lot of research that shows that teachers …
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Writing approaches and strategies used by teachers in selected South African English First Additional Language classrooms
Background: The teaching of writing in English First Additional Language (EFAL) classrooms remains less explored in the Further Education and …
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Why the English Home Language Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement will not improve learners’ reading comprehension
Background: The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), and similar international assessments, have consistently shown South African intermediate phase …