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Download full textIfeanyi A. Uche; Ugochukwu Chinedu Noke; O. John Udeigwe; Chinenye Olekaibe – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This is a case study of classroom interaction of SSS1 English and Igbo in reading comprehension at Premier Secondary School, Aba, Nigeria. The purpose is to determine whether interaction in reading comprehension in English and Igbo is constrained by language in terms of interaction patterns, style and culture. The class sessions were described…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Secondary School Students, African Languages, English Instruction
Sinethemba Mthimkhulu; Karen Roux; Maryke Mihai – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: PIRLS 2021 results revealed that South African Grade 4 learners performed significantly lower compared to other countries in reading comprehension and that they did not reach the standardised international mean score of 500. It was also evident from the results that English learners performed relatively higher than isiZulu learners.…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Grade 4, Reading Comprehension, Scores
Direct linkBrenda Aromu Wawire; Gorrety Nafula Wawire; Francis Kiroro – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This research explores structural relations among the component skills of reading comprehension in Kiswahili. Furthermore, the study examines the relationship between socio-economic status, home and school language use, and home literacy environment with Kiswahili reading outcomes. The study utilized secondary data from the baseline Tusome…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Reading Comprehension, Socioeconomic Status
Wawire, Brenda Aromu; Liang, Xinya; Piper, Benjamin – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
The present study examined the mediating role of text reading fluency in reading comprehension in English and Kiswahili utilizing longitudinal data from 628 first- and second-grade children from multilingual contexts in Kenya. We employed path analysis to explore the mediating role of text reading fluency on decoding and reading comprehension in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, English, Reading Fluency
de Galbert, Pierre G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The aim of the current study is to expand our understanding of cross-linguistic transfer (CLT) to new languages and settings under-represented in the research literature. Empirical evidence of CLT is almost exclusively demonstrated in studies examining European and Asian languages in high-income countries. Literacy data were collected from 3561…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Foreign Countries
Enyi, Amaechi Uneke; Orji, Edwin Chiekpezie – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
The study was a linguistic examination of the use of lexical cohesive devices in Ngugi Wa Thiong 'O's "Decolonising the Mind"- an autobiography. The study was aimed at revealing how Ngugi - an African L2 writer, deployed lexical cohesive devices to achieve cohesion and coherence and how this has contributed to the meaning of his…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Autobiographies, Connected Discourse, Authors
