An analysis of the sports promotion text in Xhosa

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores how the theoretical framework pertaining to reading as advanced by Davies(1995) can be employed to develop reading skills in Xhosa and to assist learners to see readingas a process. Teaching reading to language learners has many problems. The critical thinkingrelevant to reading and analysis of the text in teaching reading are examined. The studyexplores the current genre approach in the analysis of Xhosa Bona Magazine with its articles.The research of certain scholars like Davies, Wallace, Swales, and Cope and Kalantzis will beexplored, in particular, the hierarchy of five levels of text, as advanced by Davies.Reading is an integral part of the school curriculum, and to use reading texts depends on thepurpose for which the educator wants to use it, i.e. to develop reading comprehension skills, topresent new vocabulary and structures, or as a basis for language practice. This study examinesreading in Outcomes-base Education (O.B.E.) as a current issue in South African education, todetermine how the specified outcomes relate to the framework for the development of readingskills.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University