- Title
- A case study of the multiple contextual factors that impact on the reading competencies of grade 3 non-mother tongue speakers of English in a Grahamstown Primary School in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Leander, Elizabeth Alice
- ThesisAdvisor
- Alfers, Helen
- Subject
- Education, Elementary -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies Language and education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies Language policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2374
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005913
- Description
- This study explores what happens in a reading class where grade 3 learners from specific cultural and ethnic backgrounds are taught to read in a language other than their mother-tongue. The research takes place at a primary school in the Eastern Cape, South Africa where English is the Medium of Instruction (MOI).The report on the findings of this research reveals that the teaching strategies and reading theories of the teacher, the literacy backgrounds of the learners, as well as the language preferences of the parents, are some of the contextual factors that impact on reading. One of the major findings in the study constitutes the debilitating effects of the learners' socio- economic circumstances on their reading performances in the classroom. The socio-political factors that impact on the learners, the teacher, and the school as a social unit, proved to be the factors that are remnants of the Apartheid segregation polices as well as the educational policies of the present government, especially, those pertaining to mother-tongue Instruction. Although it is difficult to generalize from a small-scale study like this, its benefits lie in the evidence that confirms the influence of specific contextual factors on reading proficiencies, the evidence that identifies poor and effective teaching practices and the evidence that elucidate the implications of non-mother tongue instruction. This research may thus serve to raise the consciousness of practitioners in reading instruction, parents and policy makers.
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- KMBT_363
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- Format
- 236 p., pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, English Language and Linguistics
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Leander, Elizabeth Alice
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