Walker, R. 1988

Walker, R. 1988

Reference
	Walker, Roland W. 1988. "Predicting the acceptance of vernacular literacy by minority-language groups." Notes on Literacy.

Summary
	When possible, it benefits SIL administrators and fieldworkers to predict the receptivity of a community to a mother tongue literacy program before starting one. Gives the following reasons why people like to predict the degree to which a community will accept VL literacy before a program is initiated:
	The high cost of developing literacy for a mother tongue language in terms of time, money, and personnel The large number of mother tongue languages in the world (over 5,000)

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Walker, R. 1988
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): W
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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