{"id":48396,"date":"2021-08-12T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/high-frequency-vocabulary-dictionaries-to-up-language-skills-20210811-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:03:27","slug":"high-frequency-vocabulary-dictionaries-to-up-language-skills-20210811-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/high-frequency-vocabulary-dictionaries-to-up-language-skills-20210811-2\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPETITION: Win Oxford First Bilingual Dictionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_55c796de\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11458\/aa755edf81fa4644ab0f731c71219e5e.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11458\/07157b7961984751ae34fddfbb43b569.jpg\" title=\"The themed double page spreads in the dictionaries supply the basic high-frequency vocabulary that children need to start talking, while the rich, full colour illustrations it offers further opportunities for vocabulary development, storytelling, and language games. 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Photo: SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost three quarters of South Africa\u2019s \u2018emergent literacy\u2019 learners cannot read for meaning in their home language by the end of Foundation Phase (Grades 1-3), the main reason because their language skills are weak, and they lack sufficient vocabulary and grammar to make sense of what they read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They face further challenges \u2013 the need to learn an additional African language at the same time, and for most non-English home language speakers in our multilingual society, English becomes the language of learning and teaching from Grade 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo assist learners become actively and critically literate and not merely learn to parrot sounds by rote, the curriculum recommends selecting four themes per term, to introduce new words and recycle vocabulary and language structures in meaningful contexts,\u201d said Danielle Carls, Marketing Specialist: Oxford University Press SA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the themes or topic suggestions are (my) body, clothes, colours, numbers, food, animals, my family, growing things, the weather, simple greetings, and farewells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oxford University Press SA has just launched the second edition of the hugely popular Oxford First Bilingual Dictionary now available in English + isiXhosa as well as isiXhosa + Afrikaans and other indigenous languages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe themed double page spreads in the dictionaries supply the basic high-frequency vocabulary that children need to start talking, while the rich, full colour illustrations it offers further opportunities for vocabulary development, storytelling, and language games,\u201d said Carls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dictionaries are available from Oxford University Press SA at R149,95 each. 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