3 papers
cs.CL2025
Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Retief Louw, Emma Sharratt, Febe de Wet +3
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify stu…
cs.CL2025
Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw +3
Oral narrative skills are strong predictors of later literacy development. This study examines the features of oral narratives from children who were identified by experts as requi…
cs.CL2025
Towards few-shot isolated word reading assessment
Reuben Smit, Retief Louw, Herman Kamper
We explore an ASR-free method for isolated word reading assessment in low-resource settings. Our few-shot approach compares input child speech to a small set of adult-provided refe…