Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 3 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 6 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
| African Languages | 6 |
| Foreign Countries | 6 |
| Reading Fluency | 6 |
| Elementary School Students | 5 |
| Grade 3 | 5 |
| Reading Skills | 4 |
| Decoding (Reading) | 3 |
| Phonological Awareness | 3 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3 |
| Grade 4 | 2 |
| Language Skills | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 6 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 6 |
| Early Childhood Education | 5 |
| Grade 3 | 5 |
| Primary Education | 5 |
| Grade 4 | 2 |
| Intermediate Grades | 2 |
| Grade 2 | 1 |
Audience
Location
| South Africa | 6 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textMaria K. Vaz – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: South Africa's PIRLS 2021 outcomes revealed that learners struggle with comprehension. The reasons for poor reading need to be identified and addressed to stem this challenge. Aim: This study assessed Sesotho Grade 4 learners' knowledge of simple and complex letter sounds, their oral reading fluency and the relationship to their oral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Grade 4, Reading Skills
Direct linkPatricia Makaure; Carien Wilsenach – Reading Psychology, 2024
The Simple View of Reading (SVR) proposes that successful reading comprehension depends on proficient decoding and on linguistic comprehension. Some have found the SVR too simplistic and argue that other skills, such as reading fluency, explain unique variance in reading comprehension. Using longitudinal data from a sample of 103 children, our aim…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Bilingual Students, Reading Fluency
Mikaela A. Daries; Tracy N. Bowles – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Research acknowledges the importance of phonological processing and orthographic processing for reading and spelling in both consistently and inconsistently written languages. While the focus has tended to be on the role of phonological processing in languages with consistent orthographies, the role of orthographic processing,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Elementary School Students, Phonology, Language Processing
Daries, Mikaela A.; Bowles, Tracy N.; Schaefer, Maxine N. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: One factor which is consistently highlighted in research on literacy is the lack of understanding of how literacy develops in the Southern-Bantu languages. In particular, little is known about spelling in the Southern-Bantu languages such as isiXhosa. Objectives: Through the use of an initial exploratory study and a conceptual…
Descriptors: African Languages, Reading Skills, Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Spaull, Nicholas; Pretorius, Elizabeth; Mohohlwane, Nompumelelo – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively underresearched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little has been done to probe beneath this 'comprehension iceberg' in terms of decoding skills. Aim: As a tentative step…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, African Languages, Reading Fluency, Foreign Countries
Probert, Tracy N. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: A large amount of evidence highlights the obvious inequalities in literacy results of South African learners. Despite this, a sound understanding of how learners approach the task of reading in the African languages is lacking. Aim: This article examines the role of the syllable, phoneme and morpheme in reading in transparent,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Syllables, Phonemes
