Volume 24 Number 3 (July 1998)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Volume 24 Number 3 (July 1998). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1998 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

The dawn of a new concept in Fulani society: Being literate is a good thing, by Maja Liesch

1. Introduction

2. Stumbling blocks on the way to literacy

2.1. Background

2.2. Unpopularity of Western-style school system

3. Indicators for change

4. School types and their value from a Fulani point of view

4.1. The state school

4.2. Adult Fulfulde literacy courses

4.3. The Koranic school

4.4. The Médersa¹ school

5. A model of a culturally-sensitive educational system

6. Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Literacy Awareness Day: An aspect of a rural literacy campaign, by Tanyi E. Mbuagbaw

Present situation in Cameroon and in Ghana

The importance of a Literacy Awareness Day

When to introduce a literacy awareness day

Invitees to a literacy awareness day program

Government officials

Traditional chiefs (or leaders)

Other language groups

Literacy officials

A typical literacy awareness day program

Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Transition primer manual for trainers and teachers: For developing and teaching mother tongue only transition primers based on the 4 basic elements, by Robin Rempel

Front Matter

Preface

How to make a transition primer

Objective

Steps for developing the transition primer

Teacher's guide: How to teach your transition primer

Bottom-up reading and writing teaching activities

Top-down reading and writing teaching activities

Evaluating transition students for fluency

Giving and scoring the evaluation

Teacher trainer's guide: How to train transition teachers

A. Give a general idea of the whole method

B. Briefly discuss a bit about the purpose of bottom-up and top-down activities

C. Learn how to do all five teaching activities

D. Practice teaching

E. Miscellaneous

F. The trainer needs to write a report of the teacher training course

Asian Literacy Forum summary, by Karsten van Riezen

1. Conference data

2. Introduction

3. Trends

4. Topics related to linguistics

5. Implications for SIL

Review: Scripts and literacy: Reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries, and characters, by Peter Unseth

Review: Voices from the language classroom: Qualitative research in second language education, by Penelope L. Mitchell

Review: Vernacular literacy: A re-evaluation, by Peter Unseth