In his State of the Nation Address on 20 June 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa emphasised the importance of ensuring that all South African children learn to read.
“All other interventions – from the work being done to improve the quality of basic education to the provision of free higher education for the poor, from our investment in TVET colleges to the expansion of workplace learning – will not produce the results we need unless we first ensure that children can read.”
The recent Stats SA General Household Survey reveals that nearly half of SA’s children have never read a book with a parent or a guardian. It’s crucial that effective teaching and learning happens not only in English and Afrikaans but in all indigenous languages. This will increase the public’s awareness of the importance of reading and grow the capacity of the education system
African-language speaking parents, for example, feel that their children’s educational opportunities depend on English being introduced into the classroom as early as possible. This, however, does not reconcile with research, such as the study by Stephen Taylor and Marisa Coetzee, which demonstrates that the longer a learner can learn in his/her mother tongue the better his/her academic results.
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