- Title
- Exploring approaches to teaching reading skills in English at senior phase in secondary schools in Mbizana district in the Eastern Cape: a case study
- Creator
- Masilo, Appolonia Nteboheleng
- Subject
- Reading (Secondary) -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Province
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Ed
- Identifier
- vital:16161
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/204
- Identifier
- Reading (Secondary) -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Province
- Description
- During the process of this research, the main objective was to explore the approaches that the teachers use to teach reading in English First Additional Language (FAL) in senior phase at General Education and Training (GET). This was due to the observed weak performance of learners in reading, especially in GET phases. To achieve this, 20 participants tha t consisted of 4 English FAL teachers and 16 learners of grades 8 and 9 were selected. The research focused on teacher perceptions and implementation of language teaching approaches. Learners were involved in the research in order to see whether the used approaches give learners a balanced experience of intensive and extensive programmes. The study found that there were a number of factors that contributed to the learners’ weak performance in reading. These included, among others, lack of balance between intensive and extensive reading programmes, with intensive reading getting more attention than extensive reading; lack of reading material in schools, especially for further exposure, pleasure and amusement; little or no exposure of learners to wider reading; inadequate teacher pre-service and inservice reading programmes; teachers’ misconception of extensive reading; learners’ home environment that does not encourage reading; lack of parental support and community involvement. These all affected negatively the learners’ v development of reading skills. The study made some recommendations for the improvement of teacher education programmes and reading resources in schools and communities. schools.
- Format
- xiv, 217 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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