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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...