Malone, S. 1989

Malone, Susan. 1989. "Literacy Programme Planning Workshop: Strategies for developing multilanguage literacy programmes." READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature. Interest level: general.

Planned workshop because of an exciting situation in Papua New Guinea. Over the last decade, a small but growing number of Papua New Guinea's 860 language groups began mother tongue literacy programs. Saw their traditional cultures and languages threatened by outside influences. Realized their children who attended schools in English were not learning their own mother tongue languages.

Traditions and legends usually passed from the elderly to the young over generations were lost, as elderly people died and the young moved away. Changes were brought about through contact with the outside world. Increasing numbers of adults recognized their own need for literacy in their own language as well as in a national language.

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