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Download full textMandlenkosi 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
Olifant, Tilla; Cekiso, M. P.; Boakye, Naomi – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Educators' reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners' poor reading comprehension performance. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify and analyse educators' practices while teaching reading comprehension. As a result, the aim of the study reported on here was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkvan Staden, S.; Graham, M. A.; Harvey, J. C. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
This study investigated the reading demands of restricted-use items administered to South African grade 9 learners as part of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015. The method proposed by Mullis, Martin and Foy (2013) was used to categorise items into low, medium and high readability groups. The 'knowing' domain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Readability, Science Education, Grade 9
Thage, Esther Molebogeng; Mokgosi, Patricia Namayammu; Mthembu, Jane Tozama – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Guided reading (GR) approach has been shown to have positive effect on reading fluency and comprehension. However, most studies on GR have focused on primary schools, specifically the Foundation Phase. Therefore, this study employed the GR approach to examine its possible effects on the reading proficiencies of Grade 9 English Second Language…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Modiba, Maropeng; Stewart, Sandra – Research in Education, 2013
In this paper we draw on theories of teaching English as a second language (L2) to examine ways in which a teacher taught a novel to Grade 9 students whose home language is not English. How this second language English-speaker engaged with and spoke about her teaching highlighted her understanding of the challenges students seemed to experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Novels, English Instruction
