Volume 22, Number 3 (July 1996)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Volume 22, Number 3 (July 1996). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1996 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Women, literacy, and development: Challenges for the twenty-first century, by Pat Herbert

1. Introduction

2. Participants

3. Program

3.1. Plenary sessions

3.2. Workshops

3.3. Solidarity visits

4. The gender issue

5. Kamla Bhasin

5.1. Development

5.2. Education and literacy

5.3. Women

6. Evaluation

Gazing into the literacy crystal ball: SIL’s work in literacy and education, by Steve Walter

1. Introduction

2. The scope of SIL’s work in literacy and education

2.1. Basic facts and figures

2.2. Patterns in the growth of SIL’s work in literacy

2.3. What people are needed to do the job SIL wants to do?

3. The working context of SIL’s work

3.1. Shifting circumstances

3.2. Changing venues and growing populations

3.3. The education problem

3.4. Declining resources

4. Implications

4.1. Increasing work in literacy and mother tongue education

4.2. International leadership in minority language literacy

4.3. More resources to support more work

5. Conclusion

Back Matter

Appendix

Can they really read those long words?, by Patricia M. Davis

Eye movements

Short-term memory

Perceptual spans

Examples

Teaching methods

Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Biliteracy in rural settings: A look at some Irian Jaya literacy programs, by Kay Ringenberg, David Briley, Joyce Briley, Anne Sims, and Gilles Gravelle

1. Background

2. Statistics for Indonesia

2.1. The country of Indonesia

2.2. Population

2.3. Languages

3.SIL linguistic and literacy work in Indonesia

3.1. Program design

3.2. Personnel

3.3. Locations

4. An in-depth look at two types of literacy programs: primary instruction and transfer skills instruction

4.1. Primary instruction: the Ketengban, Bauzi, and Yale

4.2. Transfer skills instruction language groups

5. Concluding remarks

Back Matter

References

Opportunities and challenges: The shape of literacy in Africa today ¹, by Barbara K. Trudell

1. Three major contributing factors

1.1. Supporting NBTO literacy efforts

1.2. Local development initiatives

1.3. National level mother tongue education

2. What SIL has to offer

3. New opportunities, new implications

3.1. Large literacy programs

3.2. Increased role of NGOs in development in Africa

3.3. Increased interest in national level mother tongue education

4. What then must we do?