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Mandlenkosi Sibanda; Hanlie Dippenaar; Amanda Swart – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: The high number of poor-performing learners in reading comprehension in South African schools is a concerning factor that calls for studies to mitigate this problem. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2021 indicates that about 81% of South African Grade 4 learners who participated, failed to reach the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Carolyn McKinney; Robyn Tyler – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: While the concept of translanguaging has gained significant traction in education in multilingual contexts, it is also debated and contested. Claims are made about what translanguaging can and cannot do, how different it might be from code-switching, whether it arises from a single repertoire of language resources or from use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 8, Grade 9