Printed African Vernacular Literature before and round 1960

Information retrieval and other things.

Types: Products of the missionary presses

Bibles: Setswana (Robert Moffat , 1830-1857) Xhosa (John Appleyard and others, 1833-1859)

Books about the Bible , Theology, Catechism, for Children. etc

I Ntyila-zwi (1905-1906)(Explainer of the Bible) Xhosa

Broad topical index.

Books about the Bible , Theology, Catechism, for Children. etc

Devotional literature: Hymn books, etc

Devotional literature: Hymn books, etc.

• Swahili hymn book. Index of Swahili hymn names followed by English equivalents and an index of English names. (1922)

• Xhosa hymn book. Index to Xhosa first lines (1879) • Xhosa hymn book. Listing by Xhosa name in front

and Index to English names at the back. (1949)

Readers and School books

Literature; Original and translations

Education and Literacy

Effect on future indexesIn marketing and production

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32397212

Literacy, Education and Language

• Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write Total population 93.3%, in 2013 (South Africa Survey 2014/15)

Literacy, Education and Language

• PIRLS 2011 offers a state-of-the-art assessment of reading comprehension that allows measurement of change since 2001, and includes a full complement of questionnaires to investigate the experiences young children have at home and school in learning to read.

• IEA International Association for the evaluation of education achievement

Literacy in South AfricaPeople aged 15 and over

• Literacy rate 1980 - 80% ; 2013 - 93%• Numeracy rate 2013 - 90.3% • Alphabet skills ? Race relations survey, 2014/15

PIRLS 2011

Average Percent Correct in the Reading Purposes and Processes Grade 4s• Australia 58• Botswana 36• Canada. 63 • Colombia 37• England 64• South Africa 38

PIRLS 2011

Overall %ages Reading skills measured were . • Purposes (Literary and Informational)• Processes (Retrieval, inferencing, interpreting

and evaluating)

• http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/pirls2011/downloads/P11_IR_AppendixE.pdf • Lynch School of Education Boston College.• SOURCE: IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study – PIRLS 2011

Education has improved

• Literacy (SA) 1980 80% 2012 93% (Unesco Figures) http://www.uis.unesco.org/DataCentre/Pages

• Out-of-school children (Sub Saharan Africa) 2003 37.1 Million 2012 29.6 Million

OECD education report (May 2015)

• 76 counties – Shows link between economic growth and education

• Best Singapore• Lowest is Ghana 2nd lowest SA• Based on Science and Maths scores• Predicator of wealth in future• Report for World Education Forum

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South African Languages

SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGES 2011 Language Number of speakers* % of totalAfrikaans 6 855 082 13.5%English 4 892 623 9.6%isiNdebele 1 090 223 2.1%isiXhosa 8 154 258 16%isiZulu 11 587 374 22.7%Sepedi 4 618 576 9.1%Sesotho 3 849 563 7.6%Setswana 4 067 248 8%Sign language 234 655 0.5%SiSwati 1 297 046 2.5%Tshivenda 1 209 388 2.4%Xitsonga 2 277 148 4.5%Other 828 258 1.6%TOTAL 50 961 443** 100%