This highlights the TYN Test's potential for use as an English language proficiency placement tool, or for tracking and monitoring changes in written academic English proficiency among matriculated students for Post-Enrolment Language Assessment (PLA) purposes.
The post-enrolment English language assessment (PELA) is used in literacy support, but its predictive validity in identifying those at risk of underperformance remains unknown.
At the University of Venda, where Dr Miti required his students to study a native African language, enrolment in the linguistics program started high 800 students in the first year and dropped to about ten students three years later.
There were no significant region-by-time interaction effects for sample differences in gender, school enrolment, unemployment or language other than English spoken at home.
All patients provided written informed consent in their native language before enrolment.
Trial participants will be first-time mothers who: reside in the same LGA and receive care from one of the 48 selected MCH centres, have given birth within 2 weeks prior to enrolment, and have sufficient English language proficiency to complete structured telephone interviews.
In addition, insufficient Dutch language skills and actual enrolment in psychotherapeutic treatment at the moment of study are exclusion criteria.
Ethnicity as a Greenlander was determined at enrolment on the basis of the primary language of the participant and self-identification.
Of those who met the inclusion criteria, five rejected enrolment and six others could not be enrolled due to inadequate language skills (n=1), severe aphasia (n=1) or severe presbyacusis (n=4).
When in school, indigenous children are subject to language discrimination, low literacy rates, low enrolment, high dropout rates and disparities in national academic achievements.
The participation rate of eligible mothers in the birth cohort (mothers able to fill out a Dutch language questionnaire) was 61 % and enrolment was spread equally over all seasons of the year.
