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Download full textBongiwe Mtambo; Lindiwe Tshuma – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: According to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS, 2006 with 87%, 2011 with 82%, 2016 with 78%, 2021 with 81%), an international reading comprehension assessment conducted at the Grade 4 level, South African learners perform very poorly in reading comprehension, even when reading in their African home languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkErin Elizabeth Fell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the United States, research on reading difficulties is predominantly carried out by scholars who project findings on L1 English reading difficulty to generalized difficulty in learning a second language (L2; e.g., Galuschka et al., 2020; Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2020; cf. Sparks, 2023). This research extrapolation creates a negative feedback…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Difficulties, Native Language
Dubeck, Margaret M.; Stern, Jonathan M. B.; Nabacwa, Rehemah – RTI International, 2021
The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) is used to evaluate studies and monitor projects that address reading skills in low- and middle-income countries. Results are often described solely in terms of a passage-reading subtask, thereby overlooking progress in related skills. Using archival data of cohort samples from Uganda at two time points in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Low Income Groups, Language Usage
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2023
Up until 2020, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores had increased only slightly since the early 1990s with large achievement gaps for students of color and students living in poverty. Modest gains in fourth grade reading proficiency since 1992 were erased during the pandemic. The insufficient progress in reading even…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Scores
Lazaro-Farmer, Maggie Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study utilized a nonequivalent quantitative quasi-experimental design to determine whether guided reading in Spanish (L1) and English (L2) makes a difference in Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) reading ability in L1 and L2. Archival data from 2016-2017 was used to determinate if guided reading in L1 and L2 improve the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Spanish, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Tambulukani, Geofrey; Bus, Adriana G. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
A lack of familiarity with the language of teaching is blamed for illiteracy rates beyond 40% among people who live in nations in Africa or Asia in which dozens of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of familiarity with the language in which initial reading is practiced, we took the Zambian situation as a natural experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Language of Instruction, Familiarity, Illiteracy
