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Opinion piece by the Director of the Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy on why switching to second-language teaching too early places pupils at a ...

Produced by Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) on the Open University's OpenLearn platform, this free introductory course supports an active ...

Provides a detailed outline of a potential Foundation Phase teacher training course on how to teach reading. After providing some information on the state of ...

Essentially a curriculum framework for elementary school grades (up to Grade 4). Detailed and useful.

Since 2011 the Department of Education produced free Literacy workbooks in all the home languages for all primary education school grades R to 6.

Study showing that literate people have a different functional organization of the human brain and that learning the visual representation of language (and the ...

Presentation on the work of the National Reading Coalition set up by the National Education Collaboration Trust and the Department of Basic Education's Read to ...

Looks at the whether objects are recognized by parts or as wholes and looks specifically at word recognition, finding that a word is unreadable unless its ...

Article noting the contradiction between empirical research evidence backed up by the constitutional support for mother-tongue instruction with the current ...

A major study conducted in the late 1980s into the nature of the language and learning difficulties experienced by Grade Five learners when the medium of ...