South Africa's history of segregation and the privileging of English and Afrikaans as the only
languages of teaching and learning beyond primary schooling, make the post-apartheid …

The inability of many English second-language (ESL) learners to read at desirable levels is
universal, but reasons for this and solutions have not yet been addressed. Within the South …

It is important that any education system should secure the provision of quality education to
a diverse learner population. The development of Education White Paper Six (EWP6) …

This article reports on the findings of an embedded mixed-method South African study that
investigated the challenges experienced by District-Based Support Team (DBST) members …

Curriculum implementation ought to be considered the main driving force for achieving the
envisaged teaching and learning objectives. However, a major gap seems to exist between …

Guided by an interpretivist paradigm, the qualitative case study reported on here provided
insight into the points of view of 9 foundation phase teachers on whether they believed that …

The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of a group of South
African English Second Language (ESL) Foundation Phase teachers' understanding of …

This article addresses the problem of poor written English amongst many South African
learners who study English as their First Additional Language (FAL) at secondary school …

Full-service schools are fairly new institutions in South Africa which have been established
in terms of Education White Paper 6 (Department of Education, 2001). Teachers in such …

Background: In investigating the early reading literacy of a group of Setswana-speaking
children who learnt to read in Afrikaans, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) was chosen …