This study investigated the home literacy practices of six children, aged 5-7 years, who are
learning three or more languages and live in Qatar, in a middle-to-upper-middle class …

This thesis examines how six children at the end of the Intermediate Phase, ie Grade 6, in a
school located in a South African township construct themselves as readers and writers. It …

This paper reports on a series of studies undertaken at the University of the Western Cape,
South Africa, in the 1990s. The studies explore how students acquire academic literacy in …

Ideas regarding how children learn about literacy have changed over time and have
influenced the ways in which we view young children as learners. In the 1970s notions …

Studies on school English literacy learning in Africa, particularly in Ghana, are usually set in
rural communities and do not necessarily reflect perceptions on English and practices of …

This chapter provides a review of research related to language and literacy learning in
multilingual settings. This review is presented against Fiji's contextual backdrop and …

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007 revealed that seventy-seven million
children of primary school age are not enrolled in schools. Furthermore, despite continued …

The aim of the study was to assess the emergent literacy knowledge of a group of South
African pre-schoolers from low and low-middle class families and to explore their home …

Abstract TAYOB, Faadhilah and MOONSAMY, Sharon. Caregivers' reading practices to
promote literacy in a South African children's home: Experiences and perceptions. S. Afr. J …