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Native American Languages and Literacy: Issues of Orthography Choice and Bilingual Education

Author(s) -

Christina Biava

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

kansas working papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2378-7600

pISSN - 1043-3805

DOI - 10.17161/kwpl.1808.437

Subject(s) - orthography , literacy , writing system , linguistics , bilingual education , function (biology) , spelling , computer science , native language instruction , sociology , pedagogy , teaching method , reading (process) , philosophy , vocabulary development , evolutionary biology , biology

Native American language communities have had four choices regarding the adoption or change of a writing system in recent years: to adopt or not to adopt a system, or in the ease of an existing system, to alter it or not to alter it. The paper also examines the criteria of orthography choice and functions of literacy. Bilingual eduction issues are seen as the most important function of Native language literacies. Also examined are problems that face Native language literacy programs. (Contains 22 references.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.

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