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Direct linkvan Staden, Annalene – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
The reading skills of many deaf children lag several years behind those of hearing children, and there is a need for identifying reading difficulties and implementing effective reading support strategies in this population. This study embraces a balanced reading approach, and investigates the efficacy of applying multi-sensory coding strategies…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sign Language, Deafness, Reading Comprehension
Download full textBotes, Hendrik; Mji, Andile – South African Journal of Education, 2010
Language and education are interrelated because all teaching is given through the medium of language. Language is considered to be both a precondition for thought and a bearer of thought and therefore influences the extent to which a child's intelligence is actualised. In the South African context linguistic diversity is a complex issue. It has…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mathematics Instruction, English (Second Language), Quasiexperimental Design
Nompula, Yolisa – South African Journal of Education, 2011
I explore the role and value of African music in education, by drawing from a study of Grade 5 learners at a school in the Eastern Cape, which was designed to answer the question: Could Xhosa children in South Africa sing Xhosa indigenous songs significantly better than European folk songs? The experimental group received instruction in Xhosa…
Descriptors: African Culture, Folk Culture, Music Education, Music
Fanni, F.; Rega, I.; Cantoni, L. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2013
The aim of this article is twofold. First, the final results of two research projects, which investigated the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on primary schools teachers in disadvantaged areas in Brazil (BET k-12) and South Africa (MELISSA), are presented and discussed. Second, the Self-Efficacy construct is proposed as a…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Elementary School Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Van Staden, Annalene – Perspectives in Education, 2011
The inability of many English second-language (ESL) learners to read at desirable levels is universal, but reasons for this and solutions have not yet been addressed. Within the South African teaching context especially there is a paucity of evidence-based research findings available on the literacy challenges faced by ESL learners and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Direct Instruction, Elementary School Students
Webb, Paul; Mayaba, Nokhanyo – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
This study investigates the effects of a scientific literacy strategy which focuses on reading, writing, talking and doing science on the development of grade six and seven learners' general literacy skills, both in their home language (isiXhosa) and the language of classroom instruction (English). A mixed method design was used. Quantitative data…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
