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Nkoala, Sisanda B. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: The year 2020 will mark five years since the watershed #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa. This was a student-led series of protests, at campuses across the country, calling for higher education to be made accessible through free decolonised education for black people. In light of this, the time has come to ascertain how students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Multilingualism, Journalism Education, Higher Education
Lloyd, Glynis – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
Despite improvements in educational provision in South Africa since 1994, the opportunities for learners from historically under-resourced schools to gain access to powerful English resources remain limited and unequal (Prinsloo 2012). In this article I will provide a detailed description of literacy practices in a township high school in Cape…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, High School Students, Slums, Disadvantaged Schools
Dornbrack, Jacqui; Dixon, Kerryn – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2014
Advances in technology, changes in communication practices, and the imperatives of the workplace have led to the repositioning of the role of writing in the global context. This has implications for the teaching of writing in schools. This article focuses on the argumentative essay, which is a high-stakes genre. A sample of work from one Grade 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Essays
Linnegar, Kate; Condy, Janet; McKinney, Emma – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2014
This research examines the effects of poor working memory skills on a Grade 2 learner. Mediated learning is the theoretical framework that underpins this research project as the focus is on developing cognitive functions, particularly focusing on the working memory of a learner. An independent case study was conducted on one learner, using a…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Cognitive Processes
An Exploratory Study of Early Letter-Sound Knowledge in a Low Socio-Economic Context in South Africa
O'Carroll, Shelley – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2011
This paper explores one aspect of early literacy development in a low socio-economic context in South Africa. Assessments conducted with a sample of children from two disadvantaged communities in Cape Town indicated that in this context, almost half of the learners entering Grade One were unable to recognise any letters. A Grade R intervention…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Emergent Literacy, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries