Volume 20, Number 3 (July 1994)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Volume 20, Number 3 (July 1994). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1994 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Reading to learn, writing to inform: An indigenous literacy program for primary health education, by Esther Marmor

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Literacy and primary health care

4. Literacy programs (adult education)

5. Health education modules

6. Conclusion

Back Matter

Appendix

Community definition of well-being

References

Lessons learned from the Kresh Literacy project, by Richard D. Brown

1. Introduction

2. Goals

3. Primer construction

3.1. Elimination of the teacher's editions

3.2. The preprimer lessons

3.3. The primer lessons

3.4. The drill page

3.5. The stories

3.6. The comprehension questions

3.7. Writing practice

3.8. Supplementary drills

4. Lesson plan

5. Additional readers

6. Media

7. Motivation

8. Conclusion

Methodological considerations in teaching reading to ethnic minority children, by Marilyn J. Gregerson

The case for mother-tongue literacy

Case 1: Chiapas, Mexico

Case 2: The Navajo Indian Rock Point School, USA

Case 3: Minority language students in Thailand

Case 4: Papua New Guinea

Methodology in teaching reading

A personal experience

Back Matter

References

The representation of tones in the orthography ^*, by Ettien N. Koffi

Toneless orthography

Selective tone marking

Tone orthography

Lexical functions of Anyi tones

Grammatical function of tones

Positive tone placement constraints

Negative tone placement constraints

Some grammatical functions of Anyi tones

The representation of tones in the orthography

The representation of phonetic tones in the orthography

Summary

Back Matter

References