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Literacy programs

Index of SIL publications on Literacy programs listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Literacy programs available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• ARNOVE, Robert F.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 1998. La planification des programmes d'alphabétisation des adultes centrés dur les élèves.
• ARNOVE, Robert F.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 1998. Planning learner-centred adult literacy programmes.  
• BEN-BARKA, Lalla A., author. 1989. Supervision, control and evaluation [of literacy programs].
• BERG, Nelis van den, author. 1997. SIL as a literacy NGO.
• BRADBURY, Ronald J., author. 1987. Evaluating small vernacular literacy programs.
• COTTERELL, Peter, author. 1978. Lectures [on literacy].
• DAWSON, Barbara J., author. 1991. Promoting vernacular literature.
• DYE, Sally Folger, author. 1996. Are economic issues hindering the language program?.
• EASTHOUSE, Randy, author. 2001. Literacy and Gutt’s ’urgent call...’.
• FELDPAUSCH, Becky, author. 1998. "Evaluating literacy programs."
• GILLETTE, Daniel, author. 1993. Review of: Perspectives on literacy, Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll and Mike Rose, editors.
• GINKEL, Agatha van, author. 2008. "Educational values and material development."  
• GUSTAFSSON, Uwe, author. 1995. Management of a community literacy and development program: establishing a self-managing and self-sufficient ethnic program.
• HARRIS, Susan, author. 1996. An introduction to grid/group analysis: the Inland Group project.
• HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 1997. Successful programs for endangered languages.
• JOHNSON, Joel Andrew, author. 2006. Diffusion of innovation: introducing mother tongue literacy.
• KILALEMA, Dorcas, author. 2001. "Developing community-based curriculum."
• KINDELL, Gloria E., author. 1995. Review of: Language and the nation: the language question in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Ayo Bambose.
• LADO, Patrick R., author. 1989. Funding [of a literacy project].
• LIESCH, Maja, author. 1998. The dawn of a new concept in Fulani society: Being literate is a good thing.
• LYNIP, Karen G., author. 1996. Translation review committees: Pros/cons/logistics.
• MALONE, Dennis L.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 1998. Report on the first REFLECT global conference.
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 2004. "Education for multilingualism and multi-literacy in ethnic minority communities."
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 2008. "Literacy resource manual."  
• MALONE, Susan E., editor. 2004. Manual for developing literacy and adult education programmes in minority language communities.  
• MARMOR, Esther, author. 1994. Reading to learn, writing to inform: An indigenous literacy program for primary health education.
• MATTHEWS, Delle, author. 1995. Literacy for the new millennium.
• MIKULECKY, Larry, author. 2005. Workplace literacy.  
• MORGAN, Mary M., author. 2001. Review of: Evaluating ’literacy for development’ projects, programs, and campaigns: evaluation planning, design and implementation, and utilization of evaluation results, by H. S. Bhola.
• MORGAN, Mary M.; WALTER, Leah B.; WALTER, Stephen L., authors. 2003. "Prepare for a literacy program."  
• MOWATT, Ian, author. 1996. Literacy and development: Creating linkages for SIL programs.
• MOWATT, Ian, author. 2000. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E): a brief overview.
• PAPPENHAGEN, Ronald W., author. 1980. Prereading: a look at the programs of others.
• PORTER, Doris, author. 1995. People and projects: Mix and match.
• PRUETT, Rebecca, author. 1993. Review of: National literacy campaigns: Historical and comparative perspectives, by Robert Arnove and Harvey Graff, editors.
• RIEZEN, Karsten van, author. 1998. Asian literacy forum summary.
• ROBBINS, Frank E., author. 1995. Matching personnel to program needs.
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1996. "Alfabetização nas línguas das minorias: Que esperanças?."
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1996. "Language diversity and accountability in the South: perspectives and dilemmas."
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1997. Developing or destroying languages? What does intervention do to linguistic vitality?.
• SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. 1995. On creating cultural specialists.
• SPAETH, Carole, author. 2008. "Volunteers as aides in literacy programs."  
• SPAETH, Carole, compiler. 1999. "Implementing a literacy program."
• SPAETH, Carole; WALTER, Leah B., compilers. 2003. Implement a literacy program.
• SPRATT, Jennifer E., author. 2005. Alternatives for literacy assessment.  
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1995. Making readers literate: Transition literacy in sub-Saharan Africa.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1996. Opportunities and challenges: The shape of literacy in Africa today.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2001. Factors affecting community literacy programs: assessment and response.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1998. Review of: Scripts and literacy: reading and learning to read alphabets, syllabaries and characters, Insup Taylor and David R. Olson, editors.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1998. Review of: Vernacular literacy: a reevaluation, Tabouret-KellerAndrée Tabouret-Keller and others, editors.
• WAGNER, John, author. 1995. Review of: Beyond the bilingual classroom: Literacy acquisition among Peruvian Amazon communities, by Barbara Trudell.
• WALTER, Stephen L., author. 1996. Gazing into the literacy crystal ball: SIL’s work in literacy and education.
• WALTER, Stephen L., author. 1997. Community-based literacy, Burkina Faso final evaluation report.
• WALTER, Stephen L., author; STEWART, Trudy, editor. 2003. "Plan a literacy program."  
• WEINSTEIN, Gail, author. 2005. Literacy and uprooted families: an educational agenda for the nineties.  
• YU, Vivienne, author. 1993. "Ingredients of a successful extensive reading programme."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Botswana

• HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 2003. Flexibility in literacy programs - keeping the learner in mind.  
• HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 2004. "Flexibility in adult literacy programmes: lessons learnt from Botswana."

Burkina Faso

• JACKSON, Robert A., author. 1997. Gulmancema literacy: Combining development and literacy.

Cameroon

• ANNETT, Mary; BARRATT, Charlotte; CHRISTOPHER, Chanche K.; LOVING, Aretta; PACE, Wanda; RUMICHO, Edossa, authors. 1989. The problem of attrition in literacy programmes.
• GRAVINA, Susan, author. 2006. Square peg in a round hole: towards a culturally appropriate literacy programme for the Mbuko of Cameroon.
• MBUAGBAW, Tanyi Eyong, author. 1998. Literacy awareness day: An aspect of a rural literacy campaign.
• MBUAGBAW, Tanyi Eyong, author. 2000. Kenyang literacy program.
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1985. "Vers un programme d’alphabétisation en langues nationales."
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1993. "Local action for literacy."
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2005. "Language choice, education and community identity."

Côte d’Ivoire

• BRINKERHOFF, Leslie, author. 1989. Community involvement in a literacy project.
• BURMEISTER, Jonathan L., author. 1987. "Numbers before letters - Ivory Coast literacy program."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• HILL, Margaret, author. 1995. Ngbaka adult literacy program in northwestern Zaire.
• KLAAS, Rudolph; ROBSON, Barbara; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 1996. A literacy program management training initiative in Eastern Africa.

Ethiopia

• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1997. Fitting in with local assumptions about literacy: Some Ethiopian experiences.
• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1994. "Alphabetisierung and literalität in Athiopien."

Ghana

• COLLINS, Wesley M.; ROWLAND, Ronald, authors. 1978. Developing a branch literacy program.
• HAMPTON, Roberta S., author. 1981. Transition programs from vernacular to English in Ghana.
• HAMPTON, Roberta S., author. 1994. Adult mother tongue literacy as developed by GILLBT.
• HAMPTON, Roberta S., author. 1994. Spiritual and social impact of literacy on language communities.
• HANSFORD, Gillian F., author. 1994. "Using existing structures: three phases of mother tongue literacy among Chumburung speakers in Ghana."
• HEWER, Judith, author. 1978. The training of voluntary teachers for literacy programmes in Ghana.
• JOHNSON, Merieta K., author. 2001. Learning well: the socioliteracy of some incipient literate women in a Ghanaian community.
• OFOSU-APPEAH, Theodocia, author. 1993. Helping people get involved: a case study of the formation of a women’s group in central Ghana.

Kenya

• LANDER, Dorothea; LANDER, James A., authors. 1991. ‘Cut and paste’ literacy.
• SCHROEDER, Leila, author. 2001. Mother-tongue education in schools in Tharaka language group of Kenya.
• SCHROEDER, Leila, author. 2004. "Mother-tongue education in schools in Kenya: some hidden beneficiaries."

Malawi

• FRANZ, Sharon, author. 2005. Women's issues in literacy.  

Mali

• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. La langue maternelle, ça compte ! La langue locale, clé d'un apprentissage efficace.  
• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• LIESCH, Maja, author. 1996. Culturally embedded literacy among the Fulani: Is it possible?.

Senegal

• GRAHAM, Steve, author. 1995. A case study: language development strategies among the Diola people of Southern Sénégal.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2008. "Practice in search of a paradigm: language rights, linguistic citizenship and minority language communities in Senegal."

Sudan

• ARCHER, Geraldine Mary, author. 2006. The effect of a participatory model in language and literacy development.
• ARENSEN, Jonathan E., author. 1999. Literacy without schools: the Murle of Sudan.
• BATEKI, Ray, author. 1989. Limited community involvement in the Baka literacy project in southern Sudan.
• BUKULU, Edward M., author. 1989. The joint literacy project of the southern regional government 1976-1986: a critical review.
• YODER, Joan Bomberger, author. 2008. "Minority language development and literacy among internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and wartime communities."

Americas

Brazil

• GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah C., author. 1968. "The complete literacy program."
• JOHNSON, Merieta K., author. 1994. "Literacy movements in Central and South America and the Caribbean."
• NEWMAN, Barbara A., author. 1978. The mini-workshop as another step towards a Kaingáng written literature.
• TREMAINE, Sheila, author. 1984. "A literary experiment among the Rikbaktsa of Brazil."

Guatemala

• FRANZ, Sharon, author. 2005. Women's issues in literacy.  
• HENNE, David L., author. 1973. Developing writers in minority groups.

Jamaica

• JOHNSON, Merieta K., author. 1994. "Literacy movements in Central and South America and the Caribbean."

Mexico

• DUFOE, Shelley, author. 1993. Review of: American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions, by Ronnie B. Wilbur.
• GUDSCHINSKY, Sarah C., author. 1968. "The complete literacy program."
• HUNTER, Georgia, author. 1978. Multi-language teacher training course.

Nicaragua

• JOHNSON, Merieta K., author. 1994. "Literacy movements in Central and South America and the Caribbean."

Peru

• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. La langue maternelle, ça compte ! La langue locale, clé d'un apprentissage efficace.  
• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• DAVIS, Patricia M., author. 1994. Literacy acquisition, retention, and usage: a case study of the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon.
• DAVIS, Patricia M., author. 1996. Leer es aprender: Adquisición, retención y uso del alfabetismo entre los machiguengas de la Amazonia.  
• DAVIS, Patricia M., author. 2004. Reading is for Knowing: Literacy Acquisition, Retention and Usage among the Machiguenga.  
• EASTHOUSE, Linda O., author. 1996. Education in South Conchucos Quechua.
• FIELDS, Harriet L., author. 1990. "Programa de alfabetización entre los matsés: Los pasos iniciales."  
• LOVELAND, Nancy, author. 1992. Transition literacy workshops in the Peruvian Andes.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1993. Beyond the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy Acquisition among Peruvian Amazon Communities.  
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 1995. The Summer Institute of Linguistics and bilingual education in Peru: Philosophy and methods.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author; BALLENA D., Marlene, translator. 1995. Más allá del aula bilingüe: Alfabetización en las comunidades de la Amazonia peruana.  
• WATERS, Ann, author. 1992. "Programa de alfabetización para la transición del castellano al quechua."  
• WATERS, William, author. 1990. "Un proyecto para la alfabetización de adultos."  

Suriname

• KOEN, Pieter, author. 1985. "Talen en hun uitdaging."

United States

• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. La langue maternelle, ça compte ! La langue locale, clé d'un apprentissage efficace.  
• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• CHANDLER, Carolyn Ebel, author. 2005. Workplace literacy in industrial settings.  
• LEMAN, Elena M., author. 1995. Passive literacy among the Cheyenne.

Asia

Afghanistan

• YUN, Ju-Hong, author. 2003. Pashai language development project: promoting Pashai language, literacy and community development.  

Bangladesh

• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

Cambodia

• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

China

• BHOLA, H. S., author. 2005. Adult literacy and adult education in the socialist modernization of China: policy, performance, lessons.  
• GEARY, D. Norman; LONG Yaohong, authors. 2000. "The Kam orthography."
• GEARY, D. Norman; PAN, Yongrong, authors. 2003. "A bilingual education pilot project among the Kam people in Guizhou Province, China."  
• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

India

• GUSTAFSSON, Uwe, author. 2005. Developing a successful community-supported literacy program: the Adivasi-Oriya-Telugu adult literacy and development project.  
• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

Indonesia

• BRILEY, David; BRILEY, Joyce E.; GRAVELLE, Gilles; RINGENBERG, Kay; SIMS, Anne, authors. 1996. Biliteracy in rural settings: a look at some Irian Jaya literacy programs.
• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  
• MATTHEWS, Delle, author. 1990. "The Berik literacy program: From illiteracy to national language proficiency."
• PIKKERT, Joost J. J., author. 1996. Perception of Eastern Indonesian community leaders regarding vernacular reading needs for development.
• RINGENBERG, Kay; SHELDEN, Howard, authors. 2003. "Measuring language of wider communication (L2) and local community language (L1) literacy levels in a bilingual community of Indonesia."

Malaysia

• MALONE, Dennis L.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 2001. "Literacy for development in multilingual contexts: five characteristics of sustainable programs."

Nepal

• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  
• WEBSTER, Jeffrey D., author. 1999. "The language development-language promotion tension: a case study from Limbu."

Pakistan

• FRANZ, Sharon, author. 2005. Women's issues in literacy.  

Philippines

• BOSSCHER, Kathleen, author. 1984. What’s happening: Philippine Branch literacy programs, 1979-82.
• DEKKER, Diane, author. 2003. "A case study of the first language component bridging program in rural Philippines."
• GUIL-AN, Leonida, author. 2001. Transitional literacy among the Cotabato Manobo, Philippines.
• GUZMAN-PINA, Lynne de, author. 1992. The Western Bukidnon Manobo project.
• HALL, Lee, author. 1991. Article I: High school students as teachers among the Western Subanon.
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1993. "The first language component bridging educational program (a preliminary report)."
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1995. The first language component: a bridging educational program.
• HUNT, Margaret; HUNT, Robert; RIEZEN, Irene van; RIEZEN, Karsten van, authors. 1997. A serious attempt to setup a community-owned literacy project.
• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  
• MALONE, Dennis L.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 2001. "Literacy for development in multilingual contexts: five characteristics of sustainable programs."
• PORTER, Doris, author. 1992. Language-culture types and their implications for vernacular literature use.
• RINGENBERG, Kay; SHELDEN, Howard, authors. 2003. "Measuring language of wider communication (L2) and local community language (L1) literacy levels in a bilingual community of Indonesia."
• YOUNG, Catherine, author. 2001. "The development of indigenized curricula."
• YOUNG, Catherine, author. 2002. "First language first: literacy education for the future in a multilingual Philippine society."  

Thailand

• FOERSTER, Elizabeth Braun, author. 2010. "Literacy Exposure and Experience Program (LEEP): an internship in minority language education."  
• KOSONEN, Kimmo, author. 2002. Literacy in a minority language - the case of Chong of Chantaburi.
• KOSONEN, Kimmo, author. 2003. "Community participation in minority language education in Thailand."
• KOSONEN, Kimmo; MALONE, Susan E.; YOUNG, Catherine, authors. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

Viet Nam

• BLOOD, Doris E., author. 1980. Cham literacy: the struggle between old and new (a case study).

Pacific

Australia

• RICHARDS, Eirlys, author. 1991. Bough shade literacy.

Papua New Guinea

• AHAI, Naihuwo, author. 2005. Literacy in an emergent society: Papua New Guinea.  
• ATKINSON, Joy, author. 1994. "A new era in training... DTET."
• ATKINSON, Joy, author. 1997. "STEP course update."
• BERRY, Keith, author. 1999. Literacy programs: getting the ideology right.
• BJORKMAN, Doris; GARIAI, Balai, authors. 2001. "History of my literacy work."
• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. La langue maternelle, ça compte ! La langue locale, clé d'un apprentissage efficace.  
• BÜHMANN, Dörthe; TRUDELL, Barbara, authors. 2008. Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning.  
• CATES, Ann R.; CATES, Larry E., authors. 1975. "Authors for Papua New Guinea."
• CLARK, Dawn S.; CLARK, Stephen, authors. 1993. "Where should the literacy programme begin? A self-assessment survey of literacy in [the] Sio language, PNG."
• DOMMERHOLT, Annie, author. 1993. "The Tok Ples learning to read programme we are developing."
• FARNSWORTH, Marva, author. 1969. Manambu trial literacy.
• FELDPAUSCH, Becky, author. 2001. "What some of the elementary teachers say."
• HARRIS, Stephen G., author. 1971. "A local government council sponsored vernacular literacy programme."
• HEAD, June; HEAD, Robert, authors. 2001. "Our involvement in elementary teacher training 1999-2001."
• HOEL, Hanna Marie, author. 2006. "Do not give up!."  
• KERUWA, Rambai, author. 2002. "Integrating literacy teaching and learning in Kaugel prep schools."
• LAWRENCE, Marshall, author. 1992. "The five components of a literacy programme."
• LILLIE, Patricia, author. 1997. "Literacy in ‘other languages’."
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1999. Four decades of language policy in Papua New Guinea: The move towards the vernacular.  
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 2001. "Hopes for the future."
• LOCNIKAR, Joanne, author. 2006. "STEP (S̱trengthening Ṯokples [vernacular] E̱ducation in P̱apua New Guinea): assisting Papua New Guineans with community-based, vernacular literacy programs."  
• MALONE, Dennis L.; MALONE, Susan E., authors. 2001. "Literacy for development in multilingual contexts: five characteristics of sustainable programs."
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 1989. "Literacy programme planning workshop: Strategies for developing multilanguage literacy programmes."
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 1991. Planning for literacy in Papua New Guinea: a handbook for literacy co-ordinators.
• MALONE, Susan E., author. 2003. "Planning for literacy in Papua New Guinea: a handbook for literacy co-ordinators."
• MURANE, Elizabeth, author. 1970. A literacy program among the Dagas of New Guinea.
• REMPEL, Robin, author. 1993. "A model for evaluating reading methods: Four basic elements."
• REMPEL, Robin, author. 1994. "Training vernacular school supervisors."
• SCOBLE, Gillian A., author. 2001. A step in time: researching and evaluating the role of the supervisors’ tokples [vernacular] education program within the changing context of Papua New Guinea.
• STRINGER, Mary D., author. 1993. "Community involvement in multi-strategy literacy."
• WHITBY, Clyde M., author. 1992. Program planning—business or community perspective.
• ZANDSTRA, Frans; ZANDSTRA, Karin, authors. 1997. "Song courses in Amanab."

Solomon Islands

• GENTRY, Pamela, author. 1996. "Moving in unison: Vernacular literacy for women on Ontong Java."

Vanuatu

• STAHL, Janet, author. 2004. "Vernacular education in Vanuatu: a fond memory of a past generation or hope for the new?."