Thesis (MTech(Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009 / The importance of phonological awareness in the reading process is acknowledged,
but that it is inadequate stems from a number of learners who still have reading
problems in schools. Therefore, the influence of a motoric programme as an
intervention method to improve the reading level of ten grade 2 learners by means of
action research. The research group consisting of five boys and five girls with
differing ages between 7 and 8 years receives mother t~unge: education in a primary
school in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. Learners in the research group could
not meet the national assessment standards as stated in the NCS for Reading and
Looking (LO 3:3,4). The reading level of the research group was determined during a
pre-evaluation phase by five Foundation phase educators using grade 2 reading
material and professional observation recorded by means of open coding. These
qualitative remarks were qualitively analysed to determine the impact the rnotoric
prograrnrne had on the reading level of the group. The research group was subjected
to a motoric plan consisting of big and small motoric movements over a period of ten
weeks, three days a week for 30 minutes at a time. The programme was designed so
that sensory systems and perceptual motoric processes would develop
simultaneously as a unit as both are regarded as determinants of an improved
reading level. Evaluation after completion of the motoric programme was conducted
in the same way as the pre-evaluation phase, but with more advanced grade 2
reading material. Analysis of the data showed that the motoric programme improved
reading levels with regard to fluency, speed, accuracy, synthesis/analysis and self
correction. Additional observations such as extensive head movements, finger
reading, bent posture, rhythmical swaying movements and conclusions made from
sketches show a decrease with the best improvement at girls. The study shows that
a motoric programme as intervension method supplies the necessary support
needed to improve reading levels.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:cput/oai:localhost:20.500.11838/1918 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Viljoen, Jacoba Martjie Maria |
| Publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | other |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/za/ |
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