Do the rich get richer and the poor poorer?. The effects of an intervention programme on reading in the home and school language in a high poverty multilingual context

International Journal of Educational Development

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Pretorius, Elizabeth J ^a   Currin, Sally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^b NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bilingual reading; Differential reading performance; High poverty schools; Literacy; Poor print environments; Reading intervention

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LITERACY; POVERTY; PRIMARY EDUCATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70349434730     PISSN: 07380593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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