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Tanya R. Beelders; Angela E. Stott – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2025
Background: South African township learners are known to perform poorly in international tests, including reading and science. Language is a complicating variable as English, the learners' second language (L2), is generally the language of learning and teaching, including for reading science texts. Aim: The study's objectives were to determine the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Eye Movements, Native Language, African Languages
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Bryant, Peter; Nunes, Terezinha; Barros, Rossana – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Background: Most psychologists who study children's reading assume that their hypotheses are relevant to children's success at school. This assumption is rarely tested. Aims: The study's aims were to see whether two successful measures of the processes underlying children's learning to read and write are related to their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Reading Processes, Writing Processes, Science Achievement
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Brooks, Maneka Deanna – Language and Education, 2016
Long-term English learners (LTELs) are frequently characterized as struggling with academic reading in English. This paper moves beyond broad generalizations about this population's English-reading practices to a situated analysis of one "LTEL"--Lizbeth Sanchez's--making meaning in her sophomore biology classroom. This analysis of…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Reading Processes, Science Achievement