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van der Mesch, Caroline – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2015
Children learning to read and write in rural areas in Southern Africa perform poorly compared to children in urban schools. The poor results of rural schools in national assessments of reading literacy are explained by the deficits of rural areas: poverty, under-resourced schools and under-qualified teachers. Children in rural areas are frequently…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Poverty
Keislar, Evan R.; Blumenfeld, Phyllis – 1972
An instructional game is presented. The instructional goal of the game was to help the learner, one of the players, understand and use seven different prepositions with which, on the basis of a pretest, he was unfamiliar. The game was arranged so that instruction would occur simply as a result of communication to the learner from his partner who,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Educational Games, Experimental Groups, Language Instruction