South African Journal of Childhood Education

1. Editorial: Beyond language policy intention to implementation – Evidence of multilingualism in South African primary school classrooms
Surette van Staden
South African Journal of Education  vol: 41  issue: Supplement 1  first page: S1  year: 2021  
doi: 10.15700/saje.v41ns1editorial

2. Language of assessment matters: Early learning outcomes when preschool children are tested in isiXhosa mother tongue vs in English: The language of learning and teaching
Andrew Dawes, Linda Biersteker, Colin Tredoux
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 16  issue: 1  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/SAJCE.v16i1.1814

3. Mother-tongue education in a multilingual township: Possibilities for recognising lok’shin lingua in South Africa
Rockie Sibanda
Reading & Writing  vol: 10  issue: 1  year: 2019  
doi: 10.4102/rw.v10i1.225

4. The link between learner performance in early reading literacy and what is happening in the Grade 1 classroom
Martha Khosa
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 12  issue: 1  year: 2022  
doi: 10.4102/sajce.v12i1.1096

5. The effect of a parental mHealth resource on language outcomes in 4- to 5-year-old children
Elizabeth W. Le Roux, Renata Eccles, Shabnam Abdoola, Marien Graham, Jeannie van der Linde
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 12  issue: 1  year: 2022  
doi: 10.4102/sajce.v12i1.1026

6. The strategies in teaching isiXhosa semantics in Foundation Phase: A systematic review
Anele Gobodwana
Reading & Writing  vol: 15  issue: 1  year: 2024  
doi: 10.4102/RW.v15i1.493

7. The secret behind Singapore’s success: identifying the top predictors of student reading achievement using machine learning / El secreto detrás del éxito de Singapur: identificación de los principales predictores del rendimiento lector de los estudiantes mediante el aprendizaje automático
Lung-Hsiang Wong, Ronnel B. King, Joseph Haw
Journal for the Study of Education and Development: Infancia y Aprendizaje  vol: 48  issue: 2  first page: 426  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1177/02103702251323477

8. READING PROFICIENCY DETERIORATION IN ONE RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL IN O.R. TAMBO COASTAL DISTRICT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Lundi Nomlala, Bulelwa Makena
Education. Innovation. Diversity  vol: 1  issue: 10  first page: 113  year: 2025  
doi: 10.17770/eid2025.1.8383

9. Effects of Language Policy and Learners’ Sociolinguistic Background on Educational Achievement in a Multilingual City in the Philippines
Firth MacKenzie McEachern
Education Sciences  vol: 16  issue: 7  first page: 1167  year: 2026  
doi: 10.3390/educsci16071167

10. Language Assessment for Children With a Range of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Four Languages in South Africa
MaryAnn Romski, Juan Bornman, Rose A. Sevcik, Kerstin Tönsing, Andrea Barton-Hulsey, Refilwe Morwane, Ani Whitmore, Robyn White
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology  vol: 27  issue: 2  first page: 602  year: 2018  
doi: 10.1044/2017_AJSLP-17-0035

11. Early Childcare Attendance, Home Language, and Listening Comprehension: Evidence from Large-Scale Assessments in Multilingual Luxembourg
Lena Maria Kaufmann, Martha Ottenbacher, Constanze Weth, Antoine Fischbach, Caroline Hornung
Early Education and Development  vol: 37  issue: 3  first page: 581  year: 2026  
doi: 10.1080/10409289.2025.2577955