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***NEW BOOK - January 2025*** Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
SIL's Definition of Literacy
Literacy is a social practice that facilitates life-long learning, communication in multiple mediums, active participation in wider society, and personal flourishing. It includes the ability to decode, understand, interpret and critically engage with written text and to express oneself in writing in the language(s) one uses.
Writing System/Orthography Development
Writing System/Orthography Development
Orthography is how a language is expressed in written form. This link provides resources to help language workers and researchers devise a writing system for a previously unwritten language, or to help revise an existing orthography which is deficient in some way. Orthography
Keyman - Type to the world in your langauge
Keyman - Type to the world in your langauge
This free, open source keyboarding platform allows anyone to develop a keyboard layout for their language. Keyman is available for many platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux and the web. Keyman
Alphabet Design Workshops
Alphabet Design Workshops
This paper discusses a method of orthography development that has been widely used in Papua New Guinea. Alphabet Design Workshops in Papua New Guinea: A Community-Based Approach to Orthography Development
African Basic Grammars
African Basic Grammars
An overview of participatory teaching of Bantu grammar & parts of speech to mother tongue speakers of Bantu languages. Bridging the gap: Bantu grammar workshops as a means to support community- based language development
Resource for developing graded reading materials for Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
Resource for developing graded reading materials for Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
This resource gives suggestions for planning, developing, illustrating, editing, translating and evaluating graded reading materials in mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) students’ first language (L1) and in other school languages. Resource for developing graded reading materials for MTB-MLE
Writing a Stage 1 story
Writing a Stage 1 story
A guide for how to create Stage 1 stories for children who are just learning to read in their first language (L1). Writing a Stage 1 story
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