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The traditional trademark for Sepedi weddings is the ‘manyalo’ songs. For decades, the lyrics of manyalo songs have been crafted to serve a functional and educational purpose. This chapter aimed to explore if manyalo songs, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wilsenach, Carien(South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2016-05-20)
Diagnostic testing of speech/language skills in the African languages spoken in South Africa
is a challenging task, as standardised language tests in the official languages of South Africa
barely exist. Commercially ...
This study explored receptive vocabulary size and early literacy skills (namely: letter naming,
knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and early writing) in emergent bilingual
Northern Sotho-English children. Two ...
‘How can I measure my learners’ reading ability in order to manage my instruction more effectively?’ This seems to be the refrain of many teachers these days. However, while teachers are taught new methods of instruction ...
Klapwijk, Nanda(South African Journal of Education, 2012)
I report on teacher change in the context of a reading strategy instruction intervention.
Reading Strategy Instruction (RSI) was implemented by three teachers, new
to the concept, over a period of 15 weeks. Observations ...
Wilsenach, Carien(Per Linguam: A Journal of Language Learning, 2013)
The relationship between phonological skills and reading has not been studied extensively in the African languages spoken in South Africa. This study focuses on phonological skills and reading in emergent bilingual Northern ...
Matjila, D Sekepe; Pretorius, Elizabeth J(PerLinguam, 2004)
In this paper we present findings from a pilot study thar exumined the reading abilities in
Setswana
and English of Grade 8 learners, wul their literacy practices and attitudes. In the light
of these ...
Klapwijk, Nanda; van der Walt, C(PerLinguam, 2011)
Although research has shm1·n that reading stwtegy instruction bene.fits poor
reoders.
research also sholl's that teachers continue to struggle with reading strategy instruc:tion and
remain resistal1l ...
Pretorius, Elizabeth J; Lephalala, Mirriam(PerLinguam, 2011)
This article describes and appraises a reading comprehension programme !hat was aimed at Grade
6 learners and reachers and implemented in different 11'0) in {11'0 high poverty prim(Jiy schools
where reading ...
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.
This article aims at correcting some errors of mistranslation as well as giving a full explanation of some culture-specific terms which are found in Kropf's (1899) Xhosa-English dictionary.
Abstract: As the title suggests, this article highlights some of the translation strategies used by
Archibald Campbell Jordan to transfer ideas and aspects of culture from isiXhosa into English in
Ingqumbo Yeminyanya. ...
The aim of this article is to show how corpus-based research, using computer tools
can contribute to the development of technical terminology for Xhosa by translators. Paraconc has
been used in analysing a parallel corpus ...
Moropa, Koliswa(African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2004)
The aim of this article is to trace how Aesop's fables impacted on the development of Xhosa children's literature
from the 1920s. The questions which come to mind about Aesop's fables are: How were Aesop's fables
incorporated ...
The meaning-making process is a central focus of study of both Cognitive linguistics and
religion. It is also a fundamental issue in studies on intertextuality. In this paper, I will
look at how we are able to interpret ...
Moropa, Koliswa(African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2009-11)
Illustrates that ParaConc, a parallel concordancer designed by Barlow (1995) has proved useful in the analysis of parallel texts, i.e. source texts (ST) and their target texts (TT), which are English original texts and ...