Outcomes of an English literacy intervention on non-mother tongue teaching practices of teachers in rural schools;Uitkoms van 'n intervensie ten opsigte van Engelse geletterdheid op die niemoedertaal-onderrigpraktyke van onderwysers in plattelandse skole

Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 283-303

  Ebersöhn, Liesel ^a   Joubert, Ina ^a   Prinsloo, Yolanda ^a   Kriegler, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cognitive academic language; Core literacy skills; English as language of learning and teaching; Literacy intervention; Non mother tongue literacy; Non mother tongue teaching practices; Participatory action research; Rural schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907017733     PISSN: 00414751     EISSN: 22247912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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