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Publication details [#49365]

Willenberg, Ingrid. 2005. Starting at the beginning: Early childhood literacy intervention as a strategy for reducing adult illiteracy. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 36 (2) : 162–175.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | early childhood | education | literacy

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper proposes a multi-faceted approach to reduce adult illiteracy in South Africa which includes an improvement of the quality of early literacy instruction, and an intervention in families and communities to promote early literacy development.