Volume 18, Number 2 (October 1983)

Originally published as:   Volume 18, Number 2 (October 1983). © 1983 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Front Matter

Editorial

The future of the book, by Albert Devasirvatham Manuel

Part I: The future of the book under threat

Electronic revolution and the arrival of the nonbook media

Illiteracy is a major drawback to communication through books

Books in areas of rapid social change

The interrelatedness of the media

Part II: The electronic revolution and the book industry

The electronic revolution and the book industry

Text handling

Automation of equipment

Storage of text

Distribution

Problems raised by the introduction of new technology

Literacy and cassettes, by Ruthann Lusk

1. Introduction

2. Traditional programs

2.1. Some problems

2.2. Cassettes: A possible solution

3. Use of cassettes

3.1. Advantages

3.2. Disadvantages

4. Literacy and the cassette

5. Conclusions

Back Matter

References

Stimulating university students to enter the children’s book world, by Somboom Singkamana

A. Reading for children

B. Thai translation of English children’s books

C. Writing from oral literature

D. Testing children’s books

E. Writing for children

Reading materials: Progression to functional literacy and nonformal education, by Georgetta MacDonald

Report: Library tables for preschoolers in the North Solomons province, by Gay Brown

Report: A vernacular preschool program for the Misima: A beginning, by Sandra Callister

1. The daily program

2. A description of the components of the daily program

Introduction

Trying-to-read

Listening

Playing

Writing

Looking (visual discrimination)

3. The primer

4. Question areas