Profiling classroom reading comprehension development practices from the PIRLS 2006 in South Africa

South African Journal of Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Zimmerman, Lisa ^a   Smit, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Classroom practices; Literacy; PIRLS; Qualitative case studies; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905969001     PISSN: 02560100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15700/201409161101     Document Type: Article

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