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The comprehension and production of quantifiers in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Background: Quantifiers form part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and produce narratives and other classroom discourse. Little is known about the development - especially the ... -
Lexical and grammatical development in trilingual speakers of isiXhosa, English and Afrikaans
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Background: There is a dearth of normative data on linguistic development among child speakers of Southern African languages, especially in the case of the multilingual children who constitute the largest part of this ... -
Meaning-focused vs form-focused L2 instruction : implications for writing educational materials for South African learners of English
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2005)In a report on the Third International Mathematics and Science Repeat Study (Human Sciences Research Council 2000), conducted in 1998/1999 to measure school learners' proficiency in mathematics and science, it was stated ... -
Reading to learn : a literature review within a South African context
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2015)Academic literacy development within the secondary schooling system in South Africa has reached crisis proportions, with a large number of students exiting the system unable to function adequately within the tertiary sector ... -
They do not know much, but then, you have to cover the syllabus : the quality imperative – a dilemma for teachers in early grade multilingual classrooms in Kenyan primary schools
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2015)The centrality of language in any education system cannot be overemphasised. Wolff (2006: 50) sums this up by stating that “language is not everything in education, but without language everything is nothing in education”. ...
