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A Data Set of Final Year High School Examination Texts of South African Home and First Additional Language Subjects Cover

A Data Set of Final Year High School Examination Texts of South African Home and First Additional Language Subjects

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|Jul 2023

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Table 1

Distribution of texts per language and subject level for both examination texts and extracted reading comprehension and summarization texts.

# OF EXAMINATION TEXTS# OF EXTRACTED TEXTS
HLFALTOTALHLFALTOTAL
Afrikaans2122435358111
English2425495657113
IsiNdebele201636433477
IsiXhosa192140394281
IsiZulu181836363975
Sepedi222042484290
Sesotho221941493988
Setswana171431342963
Siswati211839433881
Tshivenḓa191736393776
Xitsonga201636413374
Table 2

Token and type count per language and subject level for the full examination texts.

# OF TOKENS IN EXAMINATION TEXTS# OF TYPES IN EXAMINATION TEXTS
HLFALTOTALHLFALTOTAL
Afrikaans77,78790,731168,5188,9436,94612,829
English80,25286,113166,3658,4977,48912,325
IsiNdebele48,93137,51986,45012,4309,71918,903
IsiXhosa50,48053,518103,99813,52913,48823,136
IsiZulu43,45644,08287,53811,73811,07619,726
Sepedi66,84656,594123,4405,7095,2538,374
Sesotho80,59266,934147,5266,9005,8119,738
Setswana52,83642,02694,8625,5874,5808,106
Siswati54,59743,84598,44214,60810,79221,868
Tshivenḓa62,72652,881115,6075,6944,6367,877
Xitsonga71,22750,579121,8065,8314,4467,933
Table 3

Token and type count per language and subject level for the extracted reading comprehension and summarization texts.

# OF TOKENS IN EXAMINATION TEXTS# OF TYPES IN EXAMINATION TEXTS
HLFALTOTALHLFALTOTAL
Afrikaans29,29824,80454,1025,7613,9558,019
English33,62527,13160,7566,0644,9008,599
IsiNdebele18,34612,63730,9837,8906,14612,268
IsiXhosa19,98018,60138,5818,9208,61115,347
IsiZulu18,81215,54034,3528,2116,73213,177
Sepedi27,43919,23546,6743,9953,4445,845
Sesotho29,75421,18250,9364,4563,4136,235
Setswana21,30314,26935,5723,6832,7415,289
Siswati20,88513,60734,4928,9026,30013,394
Tshivenḓa25,47318,69344,1663,8892,9005,273
Xitsonga25,93217,77843,7103,8992,9045,405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.108 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 27, 2023
Accepted on: Jun 9, 2023
Published on: Jul 5, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2023 Johannes Sibeko, Menno van Zaanen, published by Ubiquity Press
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