Gudschinsky 1975

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1975. "Literacy." In Brend and Pike 1975. Interest level: specialist.

Is part of a report on SIL that looks at its origins, current scope (1977), and future outlook. Discusses SIL literacy policy that is basically embodied in three goals:

• To establish literateness as a community value
• To train mother tongue authors and develop distribution channels for a continued flow of literature
• To prepare teaching materials and train teachers to form the nucleus of an ongoing program to spread literacy in the mother tongue. To provide a bridge to a second language where needed and desired

Central theme of chapter is developing policy. Discusses

• teaching methods and primer making
• mother tongue and bilingual primary schooling
• adult literacy, and
• training literacy workers.

Latter focuses on SIL personnel but is not exclusive of other

• interested individuals
• groups, or
• agencies.

• Bibliography module: Gudschinsky 1975
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): G
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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