The Situation of Navajo Literacy Projects. Navajo Reading Study Progress Report No. 17 [microform] / Bernard Spolsky
- Bib ID:
- 5236530
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Spolsky, Bernard
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED068227
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1972
- 23 p.
- Summary:
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The Navajo Reading Study has been prepared for a volume describing literacy projects in the indigenous languages of the Americas. In 1969-70, 2 surveys were made to determine the present language situation of 6-year-old Navajo children. For each survey, a simple questionnaire was sent to all teachers with Navajo 6-year-olds in their classes. Replies provided data on 79% of the Navajo children born in 1964, covering 84% of those actually in school. The results for the 2 years were similar. In 1970, 29.8% of the 3,653 children were reported as knowing no English, 39% as knowing a little English but not enough for 1st grade work, 20.7% as being equally at home in English and Navajo, 5.7% as being speakers of English who knew a little Navajo, and 4.8% as knowing only English. Also, 22 adult Navajos recorded tape conversations with 200 6-year-old Navajo children at 10 different locations on the Navajo Reservation. Interviews were transcribed, in normalized orthography, and key punched for computer processing. A total of 11,128 sentences, 52,008 words (tokens) representing a total of 8,775 different words (types), were processed. Results of the processing included a complete concordance giving each word in the context of each sentence in which it occurs and a list of all the different words in alphabetical order giving frequency and range. Also discussed were the history of Navajo literacy projects, Navajo orthography, concurrent programs for adult literacy as a part of bilingual education, the Navajo reading study, and attitudes toward Navajo literacy. (FF)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Albuquerque, NM.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque
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- ERIC
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- 1972
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