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Elizabeth J. Pretorius

Observed names: E. J. Pretorius, ELIZABETH J. PRETORIUS, Elizabeth J Pretorius, Elizabeth Pretorius, Lilli Pretorius, Pretorius, Elizabeth J, Pretorius, Elizabeth J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2137-1604
Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-2137-1604
OpenAlex ID: A5034765678
Reading ability and academic performance in South Africa: Are we fiddling while Rome is burning?
2002 · E. J. Pretorius · Language Matters · 168
Exploring relationships between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension amongst English second language readers in South Africa
2016 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Nic Spaull · Reading and Writing · 129
Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages
2020 · Nicholas Spaull, Elizabeth Pretorius, et al. · South African Journal of Childhood Education · 115
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Playing football without a ball: language, reading and academic performance in a high‐poverty school
2007 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Deborah Maphoko Mampuru · Journal of Research in Reading · 112
Do the rich get richer and the poor poorer?
2009 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Sally Currin · International Journal of Educational Development · 75
Reading comprehension in South African schools: Are teachers getting it, and getting it right?
2016 · Lilli Pretorius, Nanda Klapwijk · Per Linguam · 74
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Still Falling at the First Hurdle: Examining Early Grade Reading in South Africa
2019 · Nic Spaull, Elizabeth Pretorius · Springer eBooks · 70
The socio-educational context of literacy accomplishment in disadvantaged schools: Lessons for reading in the early primary school years
2004 · Elizabeth J Pretorius, Myrna P Machet · Journal for Language Teaching · 67
Is reading in an agglutinating language different from an analytic language? An analysis of isiZulu and English reading based on eye movements
2013 · Bertus van Rooy, Elizabeth J Pretorius · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 47
Reading comprehension in high-poverty schools: How should it be taught and how well does it work?
2012 · Elizabeth J Pretorius, Mirriam Lephalala · Per Linguam · 43
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Reading in a disadvantaged high school : issues of accomplishment, assessment and accountability
2005 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Rita Ribbens · South African Journal of Education · 43
English as a second language learner differences in anaphoric resolution: Reading to learn in the academic context
2005 · ELIZABETH J. PRETORIUS · Applied Psycholinguistics · 42
Bilingual and biliterate? An exploratory study of Grade 8 reading skills in Setswana and English
2011 · DS Matjila, Elizabeth Pretorius · Per Linguam · 39
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Supporting transition or playing catch-up in Grade 4? Implications for standards in education and training
2014 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius · Perspectives in Education · 36
Literacy and disadvantage: learners' achievements in the early primary school years
2004 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Myrna P Machet · Africa Education Review · 34
Putting reading in Northern Sotho on track in the early years: Changing resources, expectations and practices in a high poverty school
2009 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Matseleng M. Mokhwesana · South African Journal of African Languages · 31
The comprehension of logical relations in expository texts by students who study through the medium of ESL
2006 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius · System · 30
Failure to launch: matching language policy with literacy accomplishment in South African schools
2015 · Elizabeth Pretorius · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 29
Reading and applied linguistics - a deafening silence?
2002 · Elizabeth J Pretorius · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 29
Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages
2021 · Cally Ardington, Gabrielle Wills, et al. · International Journal of Educational Development · 27
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Reading and the Unisa student : is academic performance related to reading ability?
2000 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius · Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa) · 27
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Laying foundations for academic language competence: the effects of storybook reading on Zulu language, literacy and discourse development
2005 · Danisile Ntuli, Elizabeth J Pretorius · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 21
Inference generation in the reading of expository texts by university students
2000 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius · Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa) · 21
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How is their word knowledge growing? Exploring Grade 3 vocabulary in South African township schools
2017 · Elizabeth J. Pretorius, Lieke Stoffelsma · South African Journal of Childhood Education · 20
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Relationships between mathematics and literacy: Exploring some underlying factors
2008 · Carol Bohlmann, Elizabeth Pretorius · Pythagoras · 18
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Works count: 54
Citation count: 1,474
H-index: 21
I10-index: 28
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