Burmeister 1990

Burmeister, Jonathan L. 1990. "Anyi literacy program." The Journal of West African Languages. Interest level: specialist.

Adult literacy in the mother tongue faces three problems:

• Lack of motivation
• Variety of dialects
• Lack of materials

Among the Anyi of Côte d'Ivoire, these problems were tackled with the help of

• government funding
• local committees, and
• consultants.

Needs basic arithmetic for simple bookkeeping and local business deals. Teaching arithmetic, with its restricted set of symbols, provides an imaginative bridge to the teaching of reading.

Teaching reading and writing is based on the Gudschinsky method. Trained teachers begin to produce literature which is necessary to maintain motivation. Anyi is spoken by about a half million people living in the southeastern region of Côte d'Ivoire and more than 100,000 in neighboring Ghana.

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