Literacy

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Scripture in an Accessible Form

The choice of medium can make a difference, and better artistic quality enhances any communication. However, the most important quality is how relevant the message seems to be to the lives of its hearers. If a hearer (or reader or…

RichardOctober 3, 2009

Literacy

There’s More to Reading than Meets the Eye

There is more to reading the words on the page than meets the eye. In order for the Bible to be read with comprehension and understanding, resulting in an appropriate response to God’s communication, the reader must be equipped with…

RichardSeptember 23, 2009

Literacy Orality

Dependence on Literacy Strategy

It is possible that the literacy based approach as applied in non-reading communities reaches best those who most want to escape from the traditional culture into the modern world of wealth and technology, but it may not be successful in…

RichardAugust 17, 2009

Audio Literacy Orality

The Crucial Role of Oral-Scripture: Focus Africa

Oral-Scripture in Africa is the highest potential medium of outreach for the salvation message on the continent today and into the 21st century. This is because it is capable of reaching both the literate and the teeming millions of non-literate…

RichardAugust 17, 2009

Literacy Orality

We can’t read the Bible!

Help! Hardly anyone can read the translated Scriptures. What can we do? This is a one-page poster or course handout. It reminds us that if a lack of literacy skills is cited as a barrier to Scripture use, then the…

RichardJune 12, 2009

Bible Study Literacy

Literacy for Life – Teacher’s Guide

Literacy for Life is all about injecting a good dose of the Bible into a traditional literacy programme... You will need the beginner’s literacy primer. This is the book that is used to teach the letters of the alphabet and…

RichardJune 8, 2009

Literacy

A Back Transition Primer: National Language to Vernacular

One of the first questions translation teams ask when determining program strategy is: Are there people who are literate or semi-literate in the national language? If so, how can we get them reading in their own language? In Columbia, where…

RichardMay 7, 2009

Bible Study Discipleship Literacy

Literacy for Life: a Tool for the Church?

The pastor will find that not only can his congregation read the Scriptures in their own language, but they will show a greater depth of understanding God’s Word and show growth in their Christian lives. Community literacy projects have been…

RichardFebruary 14, 2009

Literacy

How literacy can harm Scripture Use

Traveling to different countries in Africa, I’ve noticed one important link between Scripture use and literacy, and that is how literacy can harm Scripture use! It is clear that it is right and proper to have an emphasis on teaching…

RichardJanuary 15, 2009

Literacy

Making Readers Literate

Making readers literate, that is what transition literacy is all about. L1–L2 transition literacy introduces the isolated minority language speaker to a world of information and ideas outside his own culture; L2–L1 literacy restores to the L2 reader his cultural…

RichardJanuary 9, 2009

Literacy

Scripture in an Accessible Form

There’s More to Reading than Meets the Eye

Dependence on Literacy Strategy

The Crucial Role of Oral-Scripture: Focus Africa

We can’t read the Bible!

Literacy for Life – Teacher’s Guide

A Back Transition Primer: National Language to Vernacular

Literacy for Life: a Tool for the Church?

How literacy can harm Scripture Use

Making Readers Literate

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