SIL Electronic Working Papers
Contents 2005
The reports published most recently are listed first.
- 2005-015
- Author: Betsy Brand
Title: Policy Issues in Literacy
Country: USA
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium
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- 2005-014
- Author: Christopher Vaz
Title: A Functional Grammar Sketch Of Hill Madia
Country: India
Language: Hill Madia
Subjects: Predicate nominals, grammatical relations, tense, aspect, mode, valence-changing devices, pragmatically marked Structures
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- 2005-013
- Author: Richard Montag
Title: Participant Referencing in Cashinahua
Country: Peru
Language: Cashinahua
Subjects: Brazil, Panoan language group, Cashinahua, Peru, complex switch-reference
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- 2005-012
- Author: J. Fraser Bennett
Title: Reanalyzing Thai Glottal Codas: Probability, perception, and displaced contrast
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subjects: Glottal codas, Phonetic duration, Stress-to-weight, Principle, Vowel length
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- 2005-011
- Author: Gail Weinstein
Title: Literacy and Uprooted Families: An Educational Agenda for the Nineties
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, Southeast Asia, Hmong refugees, learning English, intergenerational relationships, immigrant populations
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- 2005-010
- Author: H. S. Bhola
Title: Adult Literacy and Adult Education in the Socialist Modernization of China: Policy, Performance, Lessons
Country: China
Subjects: Literacy Colloquium, Adult literacy, adult education, China, functional literacy
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- 2005-009
- Author: Carolyn Ebel Chandler
Title: Workplace Literacy in Industrial Settings
Country: USA
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, workplace, industrial programs, United States
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- 2005-008
- Author: Joan L.G. Baart, Khawaja A. Rehman
Title: A First Look at the Language of Kundal Shahi in Azad Kashmir
Country: Pakistan
Language: Kundal Shahi
Subjects: Kundal Shahi, Kashmir, Qureshi, language shift
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- 2005-007
- Author: Larry Mikulecky
Title: Workplace Literacy
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, literacy education, workplace, community development, assessment research, reading level
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- 2005-006
- Author: Sharon Franz
Title: Women's Issues in Literacy
Country: Guatemala, Malawi, Pakistan
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, development, Women's Issues, educating women, women, AID (Agency for International Development),, radio learning, Guatemala, Malawi, Pakistan
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- 2005-005
- Author: Maurice Tadadjeu
Title: Language, Literacy and Education in African Development: A Perspective from Cameroon
Country: Cameroon
Subjects: education, literacy, Literacy Colloquium, development, Cameroon, mother-tongue education
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- 2005-004
- Author: Uwe Gustafsson
Title: Developing a Successful Community-Supported Literacy: The Adivasi Oriya-Telugu Adult Literacy and Development Project
Country: India
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, Community-supported program, Adult literacy, Adivasi Oriya-Telugu, India, Andhra Pradesh, development, Visakhapatnam District, functional education
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- 2005-003
- Author: Helen Abadzi
Title: Are there Age-Related Psychophysiological Barriers to the Acquisition of Literacy?
Subjects: literacy, Literacy Colloquium, age-related barriers, reading acquisition, instructional methodology, adult women
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- 2005-002
- Author: Naihuwo Ahai
Title: Literacy in an Emergent Society: Papua New Guinea
Country: Papua New Guinea
Subjects: Literacy Colloquium, Papua New Guinea, literacy education, vernacular literacy, literacy initiatives, human development, multi-strategy Method, reading approaches, integrated training
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- 2005-001
- Author: Jennifer E. Spratt
Title: Alternatives for Literacy Assessment
Subjects: assessment, literacy assessment, direct assessment, development indicators, statistics, education factors, item response theory (IRT), IRT (item response theory), Literacy Colloquium
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