Some useful links about literacy in mother tongue
From : http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cilp/006/2/default.htm
Vaidehi Ramanathan
Rethinking Language Planning and Policy from the Ground Up: Refashioning Institutional
Realities and Human Lives
Minglang Zhou
Legislating
Literacy for Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China
Kimmo Kosonen
Vernaculars
in Literacy and Basic Education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand
Jeff Siegel
Literacy
in Pidgin and Creole Languages
Andreas Papapavlou and Pavlos Pavlou
Literacy
and Language-in-Education Policy in Bidialectal Settings
Diane Dekker and Catherine Young
Bridging
the Gap: The Development of Appropriate Educational Strategies for Minority
Language Communities in the Philippines
Eva Lindström
Literacy
in a Dying Language: The Case of Kuot, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Martin Paviour-Smith
Is
it Aulua or Education Dressed up in Kastom?: A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation
of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu2 Community
Michael Dunn
Vernacular
Literacy in the Touo Language of the Solomon Islands
UNESCO Literacy Recommendation
A
report of a recent multilingual education workshop organized by SIL International
and Mahidol University is now available online at UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Education
for All website. This event also included participants from UNESCO, Save the
Children and CARE.
World Bank Education Notes
The
Education Notes Series is intended to summarize lessons learned and key policy
findings from the World Bank’s work in education as it relates to Education
for All. The series presents positive developments towards reaching the global
Education for All challenge.
World Bank Education Notes: In Their Own Language...Education
for All
Fifty percent of the world’s
out-of-school children live in communities where the language of schooling is
rarely, if ever, used at home. This underscores the biggest challenge to achieving
Education for All (EFA): a legacy of non-productive practices that lead to low
levels of learning and high levels of dropout and repetition.
Educating Learners in Their Home Languages
MORE THAN 6,000 LANGUAGES ARE
SPOKEN IN THE WORLD TODAY. Approximately 1.38 billion people speak languages
that are not used for formal education, either because they are not written
or because they have been deemed unsuitable for education.
Mother tongue first: Children’s right to
learn in their own languages
Education is power and language
is the key to accessing that power. A child who thrives at school and develops
self-esteem and pride will have better employment opportunities and is more
likely to realise his or her potential.
Google launches literacy portal
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