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Learning to Read in English: Comparing Monolingual English and Bilingual Zulu-English Grade 3 Learners
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De Sousa, Diana Soares; Broom, Yvonne – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011
The acquisition of reading skills of 100 monolingual English and 100 bilingual Zulu-English third-grade learners was investigated by measuring their phonological and reading skills. Little research exists on how the presence of a spoken-only Zulu (L1) could influence the English (L2) reading acquisition process. PA tasks were correlated with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Native Language