Resources for Literacy and Education

SIL provides information and technical resources to language communities, government agencies and non-government organizations and institutions that are engaged in mother tongue based multilingual education (MTB MLE) programs.    These include resources for…

• raising awareness about the purposes and benefits of MTB MLE;
• developing effective language and education policies;
• conducting preliminary research to aid program planning and implementation;
• planning strong and sustainable programs;
• developing orthographies that are acceptable to all stakeholders;
• language education; initial literacy, learning a 2nd language, and bridging between languages;
• developing curriculum and instructional materials 
• developing learning and reading materials in all the school languages; 
• developing pre-service and in-service training programs for teachers and other staff
• developing evaluations to program implementation and expansion and to assess learners’ progress through each grade