Concepedia

Elizabeth J. Pretorius

EJ

25

Publications

1.2K

Citations

20

H-Index

1996

Active since

Affiliations

University of South Africa(Current)

Stellenbosch University

University of Cape Town

Elizabeth J. Pretorius is an author at University of South Africa specializing in education, language education, and literacy.

Top concepts

EducationLanguage EducationLiteracyLanguage AcquisitionLanguageLiteracy DevelopmentReading ComprehensionEarly LiteracyMultilingualismLiteracy Learning

Publications per year

1996–2021

25

Publications

25

Reading ability and academic performance in South Africa: Are we fiddling while Rome is burning?

Elizabeth J. Pretorius · Language Matters · 2002 · 166 citations

Education, Language Education, Social Sciences +17

Exploring relationships between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension amongst English second language readers in South Africa

Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Nicholas Spaull · Reading and Writing · 2016 · 117 citations

Second Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Child Literacy +10

Playing football without a ball: language, reading and academic performance in a high‐poverty school

Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Deborah Maphoko Mampuru · Journal of Research in Reading · 2007 · 111 citations

Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Development +27

Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages

Nicholas Spaull, Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane · South African Journal of Childhood Education · 2020 · 102 citations · Full text

Second Language Learning, Developing Empirical Benchmarks, Multilingualism +24

Do the rich get richer and the poor poorer?

Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Sally Currin · International Journal of Educational Development · 2009 · 74 citations

Social Inequality, Economics, Public Policy +8

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