A framework for teaching : reading in Xhosa at secondary school level

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:This study explores and potrays various ways in which reading in Xhosa can be analyzed.Learners are encouraged to see the importance of reading so that they can produce aneffective communication.A range of approaches will be employed to describe and analyze what the author or writerwants to deliver through his/her message. Various types of descriptions and analyses oftexts are explored in order to demonstrate the importance of reading. Important proposalsadvanced by Davies (1995) in her framework of hierarchical levels of text analysis areemployed in showing that Xhosa reading can be analyzed in terms of this framework. Thisstudy aims at demonstrating the success of adopting the Davies framework for thelearning and teaching of reading in Xhosa.Different examples of articles are examined from the Xhosa Bona Magazines. Six articlesabout Tourism promotion are demonstrated in an analysis using Davies' (1995)hierarchical levels of describing and analyzing texts.The seven specific outcomes for the language, literacy and communication learningarea as specified in the Outcomes-based education (OBE) curriculum are discussed inrelation to the teaching and learning of reading. The tourism promotion articles used indemonstrating the learner - centered approach underlying outcomes-based teaching.One of the aims of the Outcomes-based curriculum is to enhance learner participation inlearning language including reading. The teaching of this kind of reading skills necessitatean understanding of how learners respond and understand texts when reading.The analyses undertaken for the Xhosa texts are important, because they demonstrate thefoundation for successful teaching and learning of reading in Xhosa.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University