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Direct linkLaher, Zakiyya; Dada, Shakila – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2023
Aided language stimulation is an augmented input strategy that facilitates the expressive and receptive language skills of persons who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The aim of this study was to determine and compare the acquisition of receptive vocabulary items during implementation of aided language stimulation with…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Receptive Language, Severe Intellectual Disability, Language Acquisition
Download full textAisha Casoojee; Katijah Khoza-Shangase; Amisha Kanji – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Two intervention approaches are implemented in South Africa to alleviate the deleterious consequences of congenital or early onset hearing impairment on language acquisition and subsequent poor learning outcomes. Aim: This study investigated the learning outcomes of foundation phase learners with severe to profound hearing impairment…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Outcomes of Education
Arasomwan, Deborah A.; Mashiy, Nontokozo J. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) learners have unique needs, and specific pedagogies, therefore, need to be employed to support the acquisition of their essential skills. A great deal of research has been conducted on the use of music-based pedagogies to teach mathematics, life skills, civics and literacy at various levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Child Care, Young Children
White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
Hugo, Anna J.; Masalesa, Metse J. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: In this article, an analysis is done of the out of school factors of Foundation Phase learners that could influence the proper development of these learners' language abilities. Specific reference is made to the home environment of Foundation Phase learners in rural Mpumalanga. Aim: This article aims to draw attention to the fact that…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Skill Development
Gruver, Rachel S.; Mall, Sumaya; Kvalsvig, Jane D.; Knox, Justin R.; Mellins, Claude A.; Desmond, Chris; Kauchali, Shuaib; Arpadi, Stephen M.; Taylor, Myra; Davidson, Leslie L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Perinatal HIV infection is associated with delayed neurocognitive development, but less is known about children perinatally HIV-exposed but uninfected (CHEU). We compared cognitive and language outcomes in 4-6-year old CHEU versus children HIV-unexposed and uninfected (CHUU) and children living with HIV (CLHIV). We enrolled 1,581 children (77% of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Preschool Children, Child Development, Scores
Dawes, Andrew; Biersteker, Linda; Snelling, Matthew; Horler, Jessica; Girdwood, Elizabeth – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Community-based playgroups in low-and-middle-income countries increase access to early learning at lower cost than centers. However, evidence of effectiveness is limited. The effects of one, two, or three playgroup sessions per week on children's performance on the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM) (n = 112; baseline M…
Descriptors: Children, Play, Group Activities, Community Education
Armstrong, Meredith; Boughey, Chrissie – Perspectives in Education, 2020
This article draws on a long term ethnographic study which explored the way the home based practices experienced by children in a marginalised community in a large South African city, Port Elizabeth, prepared them for, and supported them in, schooling. The study was informed by the field known as 'New Literacy Studies' and which draws extensively…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Child Development, Disadvantaged, Ethnography
Erasmus, Sumari; Kritzinger, Alta; Van der Linde, Jeannie – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
Late identification of children with ASD remains a concern. Due to limited research in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as South Africa (SA), the early management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) should be further explored. The aim was to describe the demographic characteristics and early management of ASD that may influence…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Foreign Countries
Parry, Kate; Kirabo, Elizabeth; Nakyato, Gorreth – Multilingual Education, 2014
This article discusses the importance of family practices to children's acquisition of literacy and describes attempts to influence such practices through the institution of family literacy programmes. One of these is the Family Literacy Project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which both served as a model and provided material for a similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Literacy Education, African Languages
Henning, Elizabeth – Perspectives in Education, 2012
From the field of developmental psycholinguistics and from conceptual development theory there is evidence that excessive linguistic "code-switching" in early school education may pose some hazards for the learning of young multilingual children. In this article the author addresses the issue, invoking post-Piagetian and neo-Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Education, Code Switching (Language), Psycholinguistics
Msila, Vuyisile – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011
This study explored the experiences of young black African preschoolers as well as their parents' perceptions towards their mother tongue. It investigated the factors that influence black African parents to prefer English over their indigenous language. The paper also explores how aspects such as cultural and social capital affect parental choice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Preschool Children, Parent Attitudes
Messerschmidt, Johanna; Ramabenyane, Julia; Venter, Ricka; Vorster, Carna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
Afrikaans and Sesotho are two of the 11 official languages of the Republic of South Africa. Data on the acquisition of these languages are scarce. It is interesting to compare the acquisition of the two languages because they are very different in grammatical structure. In addition, cultural differences may possibly be visible in the style of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Preschool Children, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
