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Download full textDe Sousa, Diana Soares; Broom, Yvonne – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011
The acquisition of reading skills of 100 monolingual English and 100 bilingual Zulu-English third-grade learners was investigated by measuring their phonological and reading skills. Little research exists on how the presence of a spoken-only Zulu (L1) could influence the English (L2) reading acquisition process. PA tasks were correlated with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Native Language
Direct linkBroom, Yvonne – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004
Post-apartheid South Africa has officially sanctioned multilingualism in a constitution that recognises 11 official languages. However, the status of all of the languages is not perceived as being equal. The majority of South Africans want their children to be educated in English, although this is not their mother tongue, and schools are under…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Multilingualism
