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The impact of digital copyright law and policy on access to knowledge and learning	1307	105	1	1413
The effect of social media on English second language essay writing with special reference to WhatsApp	186	352	1	539
Oral language teaching in English as First Additional Language at the Foundation Phase: A case study of changing practice	378	19	6	403
Writing approaches and strategies used by teachers in selected South African English First Additional Language classrooms	287	61	8	356
Analysing English First Additional Language teachers' understanding and implementation of reading strategies	252	38	7	297
Teachers' perceptions of reading instruction in selected primary schools in the Eastern Cape	188	65	3	256
Use of mobile phones as supplementary teaching and learning tools to learners in South Africa	58	182	1	241
Barriers to reading in higher education: Rethinking reading support	215	9	1	225
Perceptions of teachers on creating space for code switching as a teaching strategy in second language teaching in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa	181	22	2	205
Why the English Home Language Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement will not improve learners' reading comprehension	167	16	11	194
Extensive reading in a tertiary reading programme: Students' accounts of affective and cognitive benefits	162	26	3	191
Mother-tongue education in a multilingual township: Possibilities for recognising lok'shin lingua in South Africa	161	26	1	188
Critical reading perceptions and practices of English First Additional Language learners in Gauteng, Tshwane South district	156	15	13	184
Reading competency of first-year undergraduate students at University of Botswana: A case study	88	76	0	164
Implementing tablets to teach Reading in Grade 5	125	21	2	148
Finding the plot in South African reading education	87	56	0	143
A reading project to improve literacy in the foundation phase: A case study in the Eastern Cape	113	27	1	141
A linguistic analysis of spelling errors in Grade 3 isiXhosa home-language learners	99	8	7	114
Factors affecting Grade 6 learners' reading performance in a rural school in Maluti, South Africa	72	25	4	101
Traversing the spaces of higher education through writing	83	9	3	95
Using a translanguaging approach in teaching paraphrasing to enhance reading comprehension in first-year students	59	30	6	95
Enhancing learners' reading habits through reading bags at secondary schools	71	15	5	91
Navigating the unbeaten track from digital literacy to digital citizenship: A case of university students in South Africa's Eastern Cape province	69	18	3	90
Digital literacy: The quest of an inclusive definition	70	16	1	87
Exploring teachers' instructional practices for literacy in English in Grade 1: A case study of two urban primary schools in the Shiselweni region of Eswatini (Swaziland)	57	22	7	86
Changing thoughts towards digital literacy interventions for South African entrepreneurs	71	13	1	85
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) students' views of their literacy practices: Implications for support in a time of change	54	27	4	85
Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research: A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018	61	13	10	84
English vocabulary exposure in South African township schools: Pitfalls and opportunities	64	14	2	80
Improving higher-order comprehension skills of Grade 3 learners in a second language at a quintile 2 school, in Cape Town, South Africa	28	44	3	75
Information and communication technology reading interventions: A scoping review	64	6	2	72
Content analysis of levels and aspects of comprehension in West African senior secondary school examination	34	33	3	70
Pedagogical choices to integrate theory and practice: Conceptualisation and insights for literacy teacher education	61	6	3	70
Teachers' perceptions of Grades 8-10 English First Additional Language learners' reading habits, attitudes and motivation	39	19	8	66
Tracing the usage of the term 'culture of reading' in South Africa: A review of national government discourse (2000-2019)	28	29	5	62
Student perceptions of multilingualism and the culture of communication in journalism studies in higher education	44	6	10	60
Phonological awareness and speech perception: Skills of Grade 1 English second language learners	28	22	9	59
Five Grade 7 learners' understanding of comprehension skills at a quintile 5 school in South Africa	43	12	4	59
The benefits of an extensive reading programme implemented in two Foundation Phase classrooms in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	49	5	3	57
Voice matters: Students' struggle to find voice	32	21	3	56
Learning to teach writing through a distance education programme: Experiences of Rwandan secondary school English teachers	24	30	2	56
Experiences in a tutoring programme for BEd Foundation Phase isiXhosa first-language students	44	4	7	55
Balanced reading instruction for improving teachers' instruction of reading comprehension to Runyankole-English bilingual children	31	18	3	52
Using flashcards for English second language creative writing in Grade 1	34	14	3	51
The relationship between lecturers' beliefs and their actual methods of reading instruction: An Ethiopian case study	18	25	4	47
Adapting a screening tool for dyslexia in isiXhosa	40	3	2	45
Are we teaching critical digital literacy? Grade 9 learners' practices of digital communication	28	12	3	43
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? An exploratory study into how a sample of lecturers develop digital literacies as part of their career development	25	11	4	40
The cause-effect relation of latent variables in scientific multi-text reading comprehension: Testing the sequential mediation model	24	6	9	39
The elephant in the room: Tensions between normative research and an ethics of care for digital storytelling in higher education	22	7	10	39
Perceptions of undergraduates on the relationship between exposure to blended learning and online critical literacy skills	30	6	1	37
Embedding knowledge transfer in digital citizen engagement in South Africa: Developing digital literacy	26	8	1	35
Getting the boys involved: Using an interactive questionnaire to investigate Grade 6 boys' writing	19	9	2	30
Extended strategy-use instruction to improve students' reading proficiency in a content subject	19	6	5	30
Learners' reading between the signs in the English second language classroom	13	12	5	30
Grade 3 learners' imagined identities as readers revealed through their drawings	14	9	4	27
Multiple voices: Learners reflect on literature	12	12	2	26
Instructional principles used to teach critical comprehension skills to a Grade 4 learner	16	7	2	25
The use of interactional metadiscourse features to present a textual voice: A case study of undergraduate writing in two departments at the University of Botswana	13	7	1	21
Genre analysis of essays in the Social Sciences: The case of Botswana students	17	2	1	20
Investigating the interpretation and implementation of policies that guide the teaching of reading in the Foundation Phase	16	0	0	16
Literacy matters in sustainable livelihood development among refugee adults in South Africa	9	5	2	16
Using role play and explicit strategy instruction to improve first-year students' academic reading proficiency	8	2	4	14
Advancing text prediction skills through translanguaging	8	2	3	13

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