Collaborative Research between South Africa and China:An Overview of Literacy Development in Grade R Classes in South Africa

The main aim is to give a synopsis of the articles which were the first of three phases of an international collaborative research project betweAfrica and a university in China.The overall theme of the project was:Literacy development in mary schools.Firstly,an introduction,including the benefits and challenges of the intesearch project collaboration based on reports in literature,is discussed.Secondly,the background othe South Africa-China project and its three phases is described.Thirdly,the literacy developmin primary schools in South Africa is discussed.Lastly,a synopsis of the South African tea’s em-pirical findings providing overviews of literacy development within the early ban and rural education in South Africa is presented.These overviews(together with two remaioverviews not included in this article)serve as a point of departure for the second phasearch project.

The main aim is to give a synopsis of the articles which were the outcomes of the first of three phases of an international collaborative research project between a university in South Africa and a university in China. The overall theme of the project was：Literacy development in pri-mary schools. Firstly,an introduction,including the benefits and challenges of the international re-search project collaboration based on reports in literature,is discussed. Secondly,the background of the South Africa-China project and its three phases is described. Thirdly,the literacy development in primary schools in South Africa is discussed. Lastly,a synopsis of the South African team’s em-pirical findings providing overviews of literacy development within the early childhood sector in ur-ban and rural education in South Africa is presented. These overviews （ together with two remaining overviews not included in this article） serve as a point of departure for the second phase in the re-search project.