Reading in South African schools is rated amongst the worst in the world. Many
children come from backgrounds where reading is uncommon. Since reading is the
key to the mastery of other subjects and a predictor of future success, there is
mounting disquiet about learnersâ reading ability. Accordingly, the principal of a
secondary township school requested help with reading development. This project
aimed to design a programme of reading intervention that would lead to on-going,
sustainable second language reading development, with the focus on improving the
educatorsâ skills to teach reading. Because the chosen methodology was action
research, the teachers were included as participants and co-researchers. An additional
aim was to reflect critically on the interventions in order to ensure more generalised
understanding of an educational problem. The results of this study will have value in
that they will facilitate a closer understanding of reading development in one
township school as an example of a general educational problem.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ufs/oai:etd.uovs.ac.za:etd-11172010-151734 |
| Date | 17 November 2010 |
| Creators | van der Westhuizen, Jeanne Suzette |
| Contributors | Dr AL van Wyk |
| Publisher | University of the Free State |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en-uk |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-11172010-151734/restricted/ |
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