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Dr Fikile Simelane
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About Fikile Simelane Fikile is part of CALT@UJ team. She teaches IsiZulu @Home-Language level to foundation phase and intermediate phase BEd students. Recent Publications: The Science of reading in a foundation phase te
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About Fikile Simelane Fikile is part of CALT@UJ team. She teaches IsiZulu @Home-Language level to foundation phase and intermediate phase BEd students. Recent Publications: The Science of reading in a foundation phase teacher’s toolkit: Implications for the teaching reading in an African language . Elizabeth Henning and Fikile Simelane Henning, E., & Simelane, F. (2022). Implications for teaching reading in an African language . Future-Proofing Teacher Education: Voices from South Africa and Beyond. - The chapter suggests that basic neuroscience knowledge about learning to read should be included in the toolkit of teachers and that this could alleviate the challenges that teachers may face. Simelane, W.F., de Klerk, J., & Henning, E. (2024). Challenges of teaching isiZulu reading in the early grades, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies , https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2023.2273268