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Meyer 1986

 
Reference
 

Meyer, Jim. 1986. "Literacy: Reading, obviously, but writing, too." Notes on Literacy.

Summary
 

Trains SIL literacy personnel in a broad range of literacy topics, including the importance of both reading and writing. One of SIL's standard textbooks, Gudschinsky's manual of literacy for preliterate peoples, provides instruction

 
  • on the necessity of a viable orthography for readers
  • on the preparation of primers
  • on teaching the reading of content words and functors, and
  • on training mother tongue authors and the production of their literature.

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