- Title
- Establishing criteria to evaluate reading programmes intended for intermediate to advanced level ESL learners in South African schools
- Creator
- Chipasula, Esther Kamana
- Subject
- Second language acquisition -- South Africa English language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Foreign speakers Reading comprehension
- Date Issued
- 1996
- Date
- 1996
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- vital:1521
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003403
- Description
- This study set out to formulate criteria for evaluating reading comprehension materials intended for ESL readers in~high schools in South Africa. Such criteria may help teachers in selecting textbooks which have theoretically-informed reading programmes. It was first necessary, therefore, to isolate those points from reading comprehension theory that could be included in the criteria. Secondly, other checklists/criteria in ESL evaluation were examined to identify a framework within which to work. In the first draft, questions to be included in the criteria/checklist were formulated using justification from reading comprehension theory. A focus group technique was then used to obtain preliminary feedback on the usability of the checklist. Suggestions from the focus group were used to revise the cri teria . A final checklist was prepared which teachers could use as an instrument to evaluate reading comprehension programmes in language textbooks.
- Format
- 135 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education, Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Chipasula, Esther Kamana
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