Number 65 (January 1991)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Number 65 (January 1991). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1991 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Orthographies, language planning, and politics ¹: Reflections of an SIL literacy muse, by Marilyn G. Henne

1. Introduction

2. Various perspectives on alphabets

3. Language planning and the alphabet dilemma

4. The underlying issue: Politics

4.1. Nationalism

4.2. Nationism

4.3. Unity

4.4. Education for all and a striving for universal literacy

4.5. Communications media

4.6. The shrinking world, Marshall McLuhan's “global village”

4.7. Spread of market economies

5. The challenge: balance and service

Back Matter

References

Word break problems in Yawa orthography, by Linda K. Jones

1. Introduction

2. Word break problems

3. Further testing

4. When problems remain

5. The final test

Back Matter

References

Review: Teaching students to read through their individual learning styles, by Carolyn E. Kent

Orthography difficulties to be overcome by Dan people literate in French, by Margrit Bolli

1. Introduction

2. Interference of the French orthography

2.1. Inconsistency of spelling in French

2.2. Difference in word structure

3. Implications of orthographic differences for the teaching process

Analyzing ambiguity in orthographies ¹, by Peter Unseth and Carole Unseth

1. Introduction

2. Dimensions of ambiguity

2.1. Frequency of ambiguity

2.2. Depth of ambiguity

3. Two types of ambiguity

3.1. Phonological ambiguity

3.2. Semantic ambiguity

3.3. Problems arising from phonological and semantic ambiguity

4. Quantifying ambiguity

5. Seriousness of ambiguity

6. Summary

Back Matter

References

Improving the route to literacy?, by Fred Eade

Distance

Speed

Direction

The Shell Project, by Mike Trainum and David Snyder

1. History (31)

2. The Shell Project