Investigating bilingual literacy: Evidence from Malawi and Zambia - Education Research Paper No. 24, 1998, 99 p.

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Appendix D - Extracts from English "word find" reading test, 1992

From subtest 1: Mseka's Father

water teacher seven white goats them go trees eat

Mseka's father has three cows and ________ goats. The _________ cows are black and ___________. The __________ are brown. They __________ grass and drink __________ from the river. On Saturday when Msela doesn't ___________ to school, he looks after them.

From Subtest 3: In the Cave

left explore arrived played lamp mountain

Simon and his sister Maria decided to _________ a cave in a __________ near their town. They took some oranges, a candle and a box of matches and ____________ early the next morning. At midday, they _____________ at the cave, and went in.

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