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Publication details [#49398]

Pretorius, Elizabeth J. 2002. Reading ability and academic performance in South Africa: Are we fiddling while Rome is burning? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 33 (1) : 169–196.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | foreign language acquisition | learning | reading | reading comprehension

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

It is argued that if developing countries like South Africa set out to produce independent learners, they will need to spend serious attention to the improvement of students' reading skills and to the creation of a culture of reading, as reading constitutes the very process whereby learning occurs.