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Nicholas Spaull

Cape Town, Johannesburg
Global Education at the Gates Foundation focusing on all things reading & maths in Africa. Digital repository - nicspaull.com
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Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages

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By Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Modern Languages, Nicholas Spaull, Elizabeth Pretorius
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Abstract Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively under-researched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little has been done to probe beneath this ‘comprehension iceberg’ in terms of decoding skills.
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Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages

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By Nicholas Spaull, Elizabeth Pretorius, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Modern Languages
Original Research Nicholas Spaull, Elizabeth Pretorius, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane South African Journal of Childhood Education | Vol 10, No 1 | a773 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v10i1.773 | © 2020 Elizabeth Pretorius, Nicholas Spaull, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 Submitted: 04 May 2019 | Published: 18 February 2020 About the author(s) Nicholas Spaull, ReSEP, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Elizabeth...
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