Browsing Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages by Author "Schaefer, Maxine"

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Early reading skills related to Grade 1 English Second Language literacy in rural South African schools

Schaefer, Maxine; Kotze, Janeli (South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019-04-10)

Background: Many South African children attend African language medium of instruction (MOI) schools, learn English as an additional language and switch to English MOI three years later. There is still much to be researched ...
The role of phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming and morphological awareness in isiXhosa

Schaefer, Maxine; Probert, Tracy; Rees, Siân (Per Linguam, 2020-09-11)

The current paper examines the unique contributions of phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatised naming (RAN) and morphological awareness (MA) to oral reading fluency (ORF) in isiXhosa. No published study has yet ...

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