- Title
- The roles of phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming and morphological awareness in isiXhosa:
- Creator
- Schaefer, Maxine
- Creator
- Probert, Tracy N
- Creator
- Rees, Siȃn
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159950
- Identifier
- vital:40359
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5785/36-1-878
- Description
- The current paper examines the unique contributions of phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatised naming (RAN) and morphological awareness (MA) to oral reading fluency (ORF) in isiXhosa. No published study has yet explored the individual contributions of these three cognitive-linguistic skills to reading in isiXhosa. Sixty-six grade 3 home language isiXhosa learners were assessed on these cognitive-linguistic skills. Results from a linear regression analysis showed that only RAN and MA, but not PA, were significant concurrent predictors of ORF. These results suggest that the role of PA in reading in grade 3 learners in isiXhosa may have been overestimated because other important predictors of reading have not been controlled. Our data also suggest that grade 3 isiXhosa learners may make use of the morpheme as a grain size in reading. Our study highlights the need for longitudinal research which explores the roles of PA, MA and RAN in reading development in order to inform reading pedagogy in isiXhosa and other Southern Bantu languages.
- Format
- 12 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Per Linguam
- Relation
- Schaefer, M., Probert, T. and Rees, S., 2020. The roles of phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming and morphological awareness in isiXhosa. Per Linguam, 36(1), pp.90-111.
- Relation
- Per Linguam volume 36 number 1 90 111 2020 2224-0012
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Per Linguam Open Access Policy Statement (https://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/about/editorialPolicies#openAccessPolicy)
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