The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant: A User Study

Prinsloo, D.J.; Taljard, Elsabé

doi:10.1080/10228195.2019.1627390

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“…One challenge learners face when studying science is the nature of the science language, which is concise, precise, and authoritative. Language teaching in science lessons is not limited to English but also to other home languages (Prinsloo et al, 2019;Zhumabayeva et al, 2019). The learners' lack of proficiency in LoTL jeopardises their reading comprehension.…”

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Integrating language literacy in physical sciences in Riba Cross District, South Africa

Kibirige

Mogofe

2021

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The language of teaching and learning challenges Physical Sciences teachers and impacts learners’ achievements. The study aimed to investigate how language literacy is integrated into the teaching of Physical Sciences. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The participants were five Grade 10 Physical Sciences teachers and 211 learners (108 boys; 103 girls) from nine schools exhibiting low academic achievements. Data were gleaned through the Literacy Skills Usage Survey Questionnaire (LSUSQ). The results show that 77.78% of the teachers did not engage learners in report writing and arguments which are fundamental to language literacy, suggesting that integrating literacy in science teaching was inadequate. Learners had difficulties in contributing to word walls, writing reports, and arguing from evidence. The lack of integration suggests that teachers lacked training in integrating language literacy into science teaching. These findings underscore the need for workshops to enable teachers to incorporate language literacy in teaching Physical Sciences. Keywords: arguing from evidence, integrate, language literacy, reading and report writing

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“…Mastering LoTL is important to the learners' academic achievements, especially when it differs from learners' mother tongue (Prinsloo et al, 2019;Zhumabayeva et al, 2019). The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in South Africa for 2016 shows low performance for fourth and eighth-grade students.…”

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Integrating language literacy in physical sciences in Riba Cross District, South Africa

Kibirige

Mogofe

2021

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“…(Rundell 2012: 72) Good electronic dictionaries are characterised by the utilisation of electronic features enabled by computer technology and utilisation of virtually unlimited space on the internet. The interested reader is referred to De Schryver (2003), and Prinsloo (2019a) for a more detailed discussion of such features and to Bothma, Prinsloo and Heid (2018), , Prinsloo (2019a), Prinsloo and Bothma (2020) and Prinsloo and Taljard (2019) for detailed discussions on user support tools in electronic dictionaries. Bukantswe has more than 10,000 Sesotho entries with their English equivalents available from http://bukantswe.sesotho.org/.…”

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A Critical Evaluation of Three Sesotho Dictionaries

Setaka

Prinsloo

2020

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This article gives a perspective on Sesotho lexicography and a critical analysis of the macrostructures and microstructures of three selected Sesotho dictionaries. The monolingual paper dictionary Sethantšo sa Sesotho, the bilingual paper dictionary Southern Sotho-English Dictionary and the Sesotho online Bukantswe v.3 are evaluated. Their virtues and shortcomings as reference works will be viewed against dictionaries of high lexicographic achievement in order to establish to what extent they fulfil the most basic requirements of macrostructures and microstructures. The inconsistencies addressed in this article reflect the need for Sesotho lexicographers to use corpora in dictionary compilation in order to enhance the quality of entries on both microstructural and macrostructural levels. It will be argued that much more research and description of lexicographic issues is required to bring Sesotho lexicography on a par with its sister languages, Sepedi and Setswana and with good dictionaries for major languages of the world. After decades in existence, currently available Sesotho dictionaries are in dire need for revision and new dictionaries aimed at specific target users should be compiled.

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A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi

Prinsloo

2021

South African Journal of African Languages

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The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant: A User Study

Cited by 6 publications

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Integrating language literacy in physical sciences in Riba Cross District, South Africa

Integrating language literacy in physical sciences in Riba Cross District, South Africa

A Critical Evaluation of Three Sesotho Dictionaries

A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi

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