South African Journal of Childhood Education

1. A Setswana translation and adaptation of the Stark Griffin™ Dyslexia screening test
Marinique Henriët, Salomé Geertsema, Mia le Roux, Marien Alet Graham
Perspectives in Education  vol: 44  issue: 2  first page: 140  year: 2026  
doi: 10.38140/pie.v44i2.9295

2. South African professionals and developmental dyslexia: Knowledge, needs and perspectives
Annika Altin, Salome Geertsema, Mia le Roux, Marien Graham
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 13  issue: 1  year: 2023  
doi: 10.4102/sajce.v13i1.1104

3. Phonological awareness and learning to read in Afrikaans: The role of working memory
Marizel Scheepers, Salomé Geertsema, Mia le Roux, Marien Graham
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 11  issue: 1  year: 2021  
doi: 10.4102/sajce.v11i1.947

4. Exploring classroom strategies for managing reading difficulties and teachers’ awareness of the role of the speech therapist in literacy management
Kaydee Pillay, Nontokozo L. Mbatha
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 16  issue: 1  year: 2026  
doi: 10.4102/SAJCE.v16i1.1803

5. Time to read: A critical review of early grade reading curriculum policy and enactment in South Africa
Colleen Boyd
Journal of Education  first page: 46  year: 2026  
doi: 10.17159/2520-9868/i104a03

6. The Development of Academic and Plain English Parallel Word Lists and Subtitles for Undergraduate Students
Elmarie Kruger-Marais, Trish Cooper
Language Matters  vol: 56  issue: 2  first page: 20  year: 2025  
doi: 10.1080/10228195.2025.2515599

7. A linguistic analysis of spelling errors in Grade 3 isiXhosa home-language learners
Mikaela A. Daries, Tracy N. Probert
Reading & Writing  vol: 11  issue: 1  year: 2020  
doi: 10.4102/rw.v11i1.265

8. Reading Skills Transfer Best from Home Language to a Second Language: Policy Lessons from Two Field Experiments in South Africa
Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Stephen Taylor, Jacobus Cilliers, Brahm Fleisch
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness  vol: 17  issue: 4  first page: 687  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1080/19345747.2023.2279123

9. Beyond Assessment: A Policy Review of PIRLS and Early Grade Reading Interventions in South Africa
Tohida Cassim, Chatradari Devroop
International Journal of Learning Teaching and Educational Research  first page: 184  year: 2026  
doi: 10.26803/ijlter.25.8.7

10. Development and initial validation of productive vocabulary tests for isiZulu, Siswati and English in South Africa
Carien Wilsenach, Maxine Schaefer
Language Testing  vol: 39  issue: 4  first page: 567  year: 2022  
doi: 10.1177/02655322211063785

11. Explaining Variation in Reading Comprehension in Northern Sotho-English Bilingual Readers: A Simple View of Reading Perspective on Longitudinal Data
Patricia Makaure, Carien Wilsenach
Reading Psychology  vol: 45  issue: 2  first page: 143  year: 2024  
doi: 10.1080/02702711.2023.2276444

12. Probing into ESL teachers’ use of translanguaging: Perspectives and operationalisations
Sboniso Praisegod Zondi, Siphelele Mbatha
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies  vol: 44  issue: 1  first page: 12  year: 2026  
doi: 10.2989/16073614.2025.2498946

13. No-fee school consistently outperforms Progress in International Reading and Literacy benchmarks: Presenting early grade reading data from a case in Makhanda, Eastern Cape
Kelly A. Long, Tracy N. Bowles
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 14  issue: 1  year: 2024  
doi: 10.4102/SAJCE.v14i1.1376

14. Storytelling: An alternative home delivery of English vocabulary for preschoolers during COVID-19’s lockdown in southern Thailand
Attawat Khamsuk, Wararat Whanchit
South African Journal of Childhood Education  vol: 11  issue: 1  year: 2021  
doi: 10.4102/sajce.v11i1.897

15. Does Nonlinguistic Segmentation Predict Literacy in Second Language Education? Statistical Learning in Ivorian Primary Schools
Benjamin D. Zinszer, Joelle Hannon, Aya Élise Kouadio, Hermann Akpé, Fabrice Tanoh, Anqi Hu, Zhenghan Qi, Kaja Jasińska
Language Learning  vol: 73  issue: 4  first page: 1039  year: 2023  
doi: 10.1111/lang.12603