Volume 20, Number 2 (October 1985)

Originally published as:   Volume 20, Number 2 (October 1985). © 1985 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Front Matter

Editors’ page

Agency cooperation and learning needs in the Oro Province, by Michael Olson

Notes

Cultural aspects related to education, by Mary D. Stringer

Formal-traditional learning style

Informal-traditional learning styles

Learning by imitation

Learning by trial and error

Learning in real-life activities

Context-specific learning

Person-oriented learning

Concluding observation

Relationships within a village literacy program, by Helen Marten

Relationships with community leaders

Relationships with the teachers

Relationships with the community at large

Conclusion

Cooperating or campaigning for literacy: Let’s remove doubtful promises and cope with the practicable, by Heribet Hinzen, Jakob Horn, Wolfgang Leumer, and Rolf Niemen

Illiteracy=ignorance=indignity: A wrong equation

Causality: Appearances are deceptive

Literacy: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Reality versus wishful thinking

Campaigns: Yes and/or no?

Continuity in cooperation

Invitation to dialogue

Reply to “Cooperating or campaigning for literacy …”, by H. S. Bhola

Report: Report on testing in Misima vernacular preschools in 1984, by Sandra Callister

Introduction

Methods of testing

Results of testing

Age

Sex

Village results

Standardising test

Informal evaluation by teachers

Conclusion

Report: Writers’ workshop on Manus Island, by Dixon Barthel

Introduction

Needs and goals

The workshop

Evaluation