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Research outputs: LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES ABILITY TESTING
2014 Lessons in language and literacy: a classroom study in Limpopo
The objective of the language-in-education policy is to maintain a learner's home language(s) while providing access to and the effective ac...
Download this report2013 The missing link: language skills crucial to mathematics and science
Research shows that inadequate language development contributes to weak performance at school, and in later life. Cas Prinsloo and Shawn Rog...
2013 Equitable language practices in large-scale assessment: possibilities and limitations in South Africa
This article is based on an HSRC study conducted for the Western Cape Education Department in which 75 000 Grade 8 learners were assessed in...
2012 The argument for evaluating monolingual language tests for equivalence across language groups
The demonstration of scalar equivalence in language proficiency tests (which can be viewed as monolingual language tests) has often been dee...
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