o be overly broad, as the authors make clear in later parts of the article that the insufficiency does not apply to all or even a majority of South African students. The research problem is stated in both narrative form and as a research question. The research problem, as delineated in the research question, includes all of the elements of the article title. The major aim of the study was to "describe the differences" between high achievers and low achievers in relation to understandings of the concept of time, and further to described such differences in relation to the "mother tongue" of the students (Grobler & Myburgh, 2001: 5). The research problem appears to flow from both research and general observations that relationships exist between variations in academic achievement and cultural differences.
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