Norma Nel|Soezin Krog|Kesh Mohangi|Hélène Müller|Oluyemi Adetunji Stephens
Research partnership between South Africa and China: Emergent literacy teaching and learning in early childhood education in South Africa
University of South Africa|University of South Africa|University of South Africa|University of South Africa|University of South Africa
due concern literacy situation south africa schools near bottom international systemic measures performance literacy important role literacy plays china researchers countries embarked collaborative research project overall aim explore literacy perceptions classroom practices teachers primary schools countries article second series researchers explored grade r teachers attitudes towards reading literacy primary schools readingliteracy teaching practices employ particular emphasis reading comprehension expected outcome provide overview literacy situation grade r south africa precursor next phase project exploratory mixed methods design employed quantitative part reported article grade r teachers selected ten schools grade r classrooms two cities gauteng province one city mpumalanga province data collected use questionnaires statistical analyses conducted using sasstats module statistical software system sas version 94 statistical package findings presented part overview