You'll get hands-on experience in designing materials for local language and multilingual literacy. You'll learn how to plan a literacy program and will discover how mother tongue literacy is done in 50 countries worldwide. The SIL schools in Australia and England offer literacy components of the applied linguistics course of study. Summer courses are offered at North Dakota and Oregon . Canada also offers courses in literacy.
All courses mentioned here assume a basic understanding of pertinent linguistic principles.
For specific information on any of the literacy courses, contact SIL Admissions or the specific school. The course material is presented in modules which are 12 weeks long. The next scheduled Literacy Megacourse is in Spring 2001. The course number is LD5934.