Add to ORKGAlthough English Home Language (HL) and English First Additional Language (FAL) marks from the National Senior Certificate (NSC) are used for university admission in South Africa, no studies have explored their predictive value. This article sheds light on English language marks and English language competence through a comparative analysis of NSC marks and National Benchmark Test (NBT) Academic Literacy (AL) test results for a cohort of first-year education students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. To provide in-depth insight, the analysis includes fine-grained analysis of specific academic language competencies. The results of the analysis of this study showed that the same mark in English...
Past research suggests language and academic achievement are closely related. Notably, students expo...
Academic and quantitative literacies (AQL) are essential to success in higher education. These liter...
The paper utilises the World Englishes paradigm to explore the issue of language proficiency: what t...
Although English Home Language and English First Additional Language marks from the National Senior ...
Internationally English is increasingly being used as a language of instruction in education. This i...
Academic performance at universities in South Africa is a cause of concern. It is widely acknowledge...
In the past decade, testing for academic readiness has become common practice across the South Afric...
We compared two tools that have been used to capture the linguistic heterogeneity and achievement of...
Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.The relationship between language proficiency and a...
PhD, Teaching and Learning, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012The research focused on...
[No abstract available]The English language proficiency of South African learners is integral to aca...
In language testing it is essential to understand the validity of test scores (Kane 2013 & 2016). Ho...
In South Africa learners do not achieve as well as their international counterparts on tests of lit...
In 2009, of the 68,129 learners who wrote Matric, only 34,731 learners passed. In 2010, there was an...
The implementation of the new National Senior Certificate (NSC) has necessitated the setting of new ...
Past research suggests language and academic achievement are closely related. Notably, students expo...
Academic and quantitative literacies (AQL) are essential to success in higher education. These liter...
The paper utilises the World Englishes paradigm to explore the issue of language proficiency: what t...
Although English Home Language and English First Additional Language marks from the National Senior ...
Internationally English is increasingly being used as a language of instruction in education. This i...
Academic performance at universities in South Africa is a cause of concern. It is widely acknowledge...
In the past decade, testing for academic readiness has become common practice across the South Afric...
We compared two tools that have been used to capture the linguistic heterogeneity and achievement of...
Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.The relationship between language proficiency and a...
PhD, Teaching and Learning, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012The research focused on...
[No abstract available]The English language proficiency of South African learners is integral to aca...
In language testing it is essential to understand the validity of test scores (Kane 2013 & 2016). Ho...
In South Africa learners do not achieve as well as their international counterparts on tests of lit...
In 2009, of the 68,129 learners who wrote Matric, only 34,731 learners passed. In 2010, there was an...
The implementation of the new National Senior Certificate (NSC) has necessitated the setting of new ...
Past research suggests language and academic achievement are closely related. Notably, students expo...
Academic and quantitative literacies (AQL) are essential to success in higher education. These liter...
The paper utilises the World Englishes paradigm to explore the issue of language proficiency: what t...