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Title: Starting at the beginning : early childhood literacy intervention as a strategy for reducing adult illiteracy
Related: Language matters, Vol. 36, Issue 2, p.162-175
DOI: 10.1080/10228190508566242
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2005
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200300 Language Studies
Author/Creator: Willenberg, Ingrid
Description: It is estimated that approximately one third or 8.7 million adults over 20 years of age in South Africa may be functionally illiterate. As a signatory to the Framework for Action for achieving Education for All by 2015, South Africa committed to the goal of achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015. The goal of reducing illiteracy is thwarted by problems in delivery of adult basic education & training (ABET) programs as well as challenges faced by learners participating in programs. In addition, the existing pool of adult illiterates is likely to increase over time as the children currently unable to access schooling, or receiving minimal or inadequate schooling reach adulthood. This article proposes a multi-faceted approach that includes a focus on curtailing illiteracy in children by improving the quality of early literacy instruction, & introducing intervention in families & communities to promote early literacy development.
Description: 14 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200300 Language Studies
Subject Keyword: adult literacy
Subject Keyword: early childhood education
Subject Keyword: early literacy
Subject Keyword: instruction
Subject Keyword: family literacy
Subject Keyword: Grade R
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/78062
Identifier: ISSN:1753-5395
Identifier: mq-rm-2009000101
Language: eng
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