Volume 18, Number 1 (April 1983)

Originally published as:   Volume 18, Number 1 (April 1983). © 1983 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Teaching aboriginal adults and children to read: Don’t forgot the principles, by Noella Hall

0. Introduction

1. Learning must start where the pupil is

2. Learning is based on interest and relevancy.

3. Learning is based on security

4. Learning takes place when goals are met

5. Learning takes place through activities

6. Learning takes place through identification

7. Learning depends on achieving satisfaction

8. Conclusion

Back Matter

Bibliography

Those pesty loanwords, by John Sandefur

General principles

What have others done?

Proper nouns

So what about that minority language?

Back Matter

Bibliography

What size type?, by John Sandefur

Report: A group testing technique, by Helen Marten

The problem

2. The solution

3. The tests

Content

Administration

Results

4. Evaluation

Advantages

Disadvantages

Report: Baruya Literacy Programme—Marawaka Valley—1982, by Ian Hutchinson

1. Introduction

2. Village classes

3. Community school

4. Other activities

5. Evaluation

Report: The Weri Literacy Teachers Training Course: An exercise in community development, by Dennis Malone and Susan Malone

Course outline

Course content

Literacy instruction training

Appropriate technologies

Community Development principles

Applying Community Development principles

The watchword is “flexibility”

Evaluation