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Alcock, Katherine J.; Ngorosho, Damaris S.; Jukes, Matthew C. H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Literacy levels in Africa are low, and school instruction outcomes are not promising. Africa also has a disproportionate number of unschooled children. Phonological awareness (PA), especially phoneme awareness, is critically associated with literacy, but there is little evidence about whether PA is gained through literacy, schooling, or both,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes, Reading Skills
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Segers, Eliane; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
The home numeracy environment (i.e., parents' numeracy expectations and activities), is related to early numeracy in young children. As recent studies have shown that both cognitive and linguistic factors play an important role in predicting numeracy development, it may be assumed that rather than the home "numeracy" environment, the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Expectation, Mathematics Achievement, Numeracy