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Jialin Lai; Juan F. Quinonez-Beltran; R. Malatesha Joshi – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
With the overwhelming "Anglocentric" or "alphabetocentric" science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well-research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Bilingualism, Alphabets, Foreign Countries
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Hoffman, James V. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
This essay raises concerns over the future direction for educational aid designed to promote literacy in developing countries. The essay focuses on the EGRA (Early Grade Reading Assessment) initiative in Africa. At one level, this essay challenges the claims for empirical and research-based support for the EGRA. At a broader level, this essay…
Descriptors: Expertise, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Developing Nations
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Akinwamide, T. K.; Adedara, O. G. – English Language Teaching, 2012
The digitalization of academic interactions and collaborations in this present technologically conscious world is making collaborations between technology and pedagogy in the teaching and learning processes to display logical and systematic reasoning rather than the usual stereotyped informed decisions. This simply means, pedagogically, learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn; Cheick, Diarra Mahamadou – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2007
This issue in the "Literacy Matters" looks at the relationship between literacy and HIV prevention education. It is the result of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning's work on examining the contribution of non-formal education (NFE) to HIV prevention, carried out in collaboration with the Association for the Development of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Communicable Diseases, Foreign Countries