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Apel, Kenn; Henbest, Victoria Suzanne – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: We examined grade-level differences in 1st- through 3rd-grade students' performance on an experimenter-developed affix meaning task (AMT) and determined whether AMT performance explained unique variance in word-level reading and reading comprehension, beyond other known contributors to reading development. Method: Forty students at each…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Pretorius, Elizabeth J.; Stoffelsma, Lieke – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
In this article, we report on a study that examined the active and receptive English vocabulary of two different groups of Grade 3 learners in South African township schools. The groups consisted of English Home Language (HL) learners in the Western Cape and Xhosa HL and English First Additional Language (FAL) learners in the Eastern Cape. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Expressive Language