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Autor:
Fungai Mutema, Elizabeth J. Pretorius
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Childhood Education, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp e1-e14 (2024)
Background: Although Zimbabwe has performed quite well on Grade 6 SACMEQ literacy assessments compared to other African countries, reading levels are generally low and there is little research on reading literacy in Zimbabwean primary schools. Aim:
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/8abeaad32ec44d10bdaa3d6f14659b2f
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Childhood Education, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp e1-e13 (2017)
In this article, we report on a study that examined the active and receptive English vocabulary of two different groups of Grade 3 learners in South African township schools. The groups consisted of English Home Language (HL) learners in the Western
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/0fc10fe0b61e4bd68b12daf25fe56efe
Autor:
Elizabeth J. Pretorius
Publikováno v:
Perspectives in Education, Vol 32, Iss 1 (2014)
This paper describes an intervention programme that was originally intended to support transition to English as language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in Grade 4 in a township school, using a pre- and post-test design. Because the pre-tests reveale
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/c97d798a985c4cde898314410e07bfea
Autor:
Sally Currin, Elizabeth J. Pretorius
Publikováno v:
Reading & Writing, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2010)
This article reports on a reading intervention project undertaken in a high poverty primary school in Gauteng where reading levels in both the home language, Northern Sotho, and in English were very low. Some of the factors associated with school eff
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https://doaj.org/article/db1c8df79bc8479fb2d7925bbb5f310a
Investigating the differential item functioning of a PIRLS Literacy 2016 text across three languages
Publikováno v:
Journal of Education (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Issue: 87, Pages: 135-155, Published: 2022
This study forms part of a larger study (Roux, 2020), which looked at the equivalence of a literary text across English, Afrikaans, and isiZulu from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). PIRLS is a large-scale reading comprehe
Publikováno v:
Reading & Writing, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp e1-e9 (2020)
Reading & Writing, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-9, Published: 2020
Reading & Writing, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-9, Published: 2020
Background: Given the comprehensively documented literacy crisis in South Africa and the gaps in what is known about the effective teaching of reading and writing in schools, high-quality literacy research is a priority. Objectives: This article eval
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Childhood Education, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp e1-e14 (2020)
South African Journal of Childhood Education, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14, Published: 2020
South African Journal of Childhood Education, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14, Published: 2020
Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively under-researched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little has been done
Autor:
Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Gabrielle Wills, Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Cally Ardington, Alicia Menendez
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Educational Development. 84:102433
To prevent children from falling behind in the developmental sequence of reading, a shared vision of what reading success looks like is required. This paper provides the first benchmarks for early grade oral reading fluency that are necessary (albeit
Autor:
Nic Spaull, Elizabeth J. Pretorius
Publikováno v:
South African Schooling: The Enigma of Inequality ISBN: 9783030188108
This chapter provides an overview of what we know about reading outcomes in South Africa. After an initial survey of some foundational tenets of reading research we show that while reading outcomes in South Africa improved between 2006 and 2011 they
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::18326c678058673b72f1cdcf90d33a48
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18811-5_8
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18811-5_8
Autor:
Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Nanda Klapwijk
Publikováno v:
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, Vol 32, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2016)
Much research exists about South African learners’ low literacy and numeracy levels and about poorly performing schools. In contrast , there are far fewer detailed descriptions of instructional practices and what teachers are actually doing in thei