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Download full textKelly A. Long; Tracy N. Bowles – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: The Progress in International Reading and Literacy 2021 results draw stark attention to an ongoing crisis in primary education in South Africa. Research attempting to understand and address continued underperformance has focused on literacy learning and teaching in schools where the language of learning and teaching (LOLT) is the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkSusan Ballinger, Editor; Ruth Fielding, Editor; Diane J. Tedick, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book fills a large gap in our understanding of how to prepare teachers for the challenging but increasingly popular task of integrating content and language instruction. It brings together findings on content-based teacher education from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America in order to inform researchers and teacher educators and…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Pretorius, Elizabeth J. – Perspectives in Education, 2014
This paper describes an intervention programme that was originally intended to support transition to English as language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in Grade 4 in a township school, using a pre- and post-test design. Because the pre-tests revealed very poor literacy levels in both Zulu home language and English, the intervention programme was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Transitional Programs, English (Second Language)
Nel, Mirna; Theron, Linda – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Some Grade 4 educators have expressed feelings of ineptitude regarding the support of ESL (English Second Language) learners with limited English proficiency as they do not know how to support these learners effectively. Their litany emphasises ESL educators' need for supportive and preventive intervention. A story-based Language Enrichment…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Language Enrichment, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Howie, Sarah – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
The aim of this study is to describe and to explore the main factors affecting the performance of South African pupils in the mathematics test of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R). The first objective was to describe the performance of the pupils in the mathematics test, the pupils' proficiency in English, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Students, Mathematics Tests
Leibowitz, Brenda – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
This article reports on an exploratory qualitative study on 37 students' acquisition of language and literacy. The study closely analyzes a linguistics assignment written in English, the dominant language, given to students at University of the Western Cape belonging to groups speaking English, Afrikaans, or an African language. The study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Multilingualism, Learning Experience, Familiarity
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment
