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1. R. N. Srivastava

Towards Organising
Experience for Functional Literacy

Makes a distinction between the esoteric written culture and the exoteric oral culture. He suggests that literacy education should teach the control of written medium and not just written skills since literacy is participation in the world of written culture.

2. Champa Tickoo and
M. L. Tickoo

Curricula and Materials for Adult Literacy : A Plea for Prefessionalism

Point out the artificiality and non-authenticity of literacy primers. The words used in the primers represent language not communication, vocabulary bit not thought. A small number of selected words can effectively replace a much larger number of random ones. They plead for the preparation of care materials by a contralised agency headed by language planners and material producers.

3. V. L. Subramoniam and
J. S. Kally

A note on Mass Literary Programme in India

Suggest that preparatory work of linguistic analysis is essential to prepare texts based on local language. They anvocate monetary incentives for learners.

4. G. C. Ahuja

Teachers, Tangibles, and Techniques in Adult Education Programme

Traces the history of concepts of adult education and points out that the teacher is the most important element in this education process.

5. D. P. Pattanayak

The Problem and Planning of Scripts

Thoroughly analyses the political, linguistic, economic, technical, cultural, and psychological aspects of script problem in India. He advocates adoption of dominant script for non-literary languages, script reform for the literary languages,
rationalization and consolidation of allied scripts, and newer methods of teaching scripts faster.

6. H. Ansari

Method of Script Teaching

Proposes an audio visual method of teaching Urdu and Hindi alphabets in a series of action oriented sequences.

7. L. N. Mittal

Selecting a Script for the Unwritten Languages

Favours the use of practical alphabet devised by Pike and others for unwritten languages. He prefers the State language script for the local minority languages.

8. Rajshree Subbayya

Classroom Presentation of Marathi
Script : A Case Study

Describes various methods of teaching script and explains why the shape similarity method is better suited for Marathi

C O N T E N T S

9. K. L. Zakir

Material Production

Advocates flexibility in the use and preparation of materials. He encourages traditional art forms and even traditional script if the learners prefer it.

10. Mustaq Ahemd

Reading Materials for Adults Education

Points out the need to write text books for neoliterates instead of primers where all workshops used to begin and end. He discourages writing about health and agriculture etc., because other departments are already doing this.

11. Rekha Sharma

Some Observations on Hindi Literacy Materials

Reviews three Hindi literacy texts and points out the problems and short comings of the materials.

12. C. C. Bhatt

Reviews the goals of various institutions in the field of literacy. He advocates Group oriented materials to make learning more functional.

READING AND SPELLING

13 C. J. Daswani and
T. C. Daswani

Implications of Reading Research for Adult Literacy

Define reading skill as an ability to extract the underlying structure of sentences from the visual information. Reading can and should be taught as a visual skill enabling the reader to analyse written sentences into their fundamental psychologcal structure directly without auditory intervention.

15. E. Annamalai

Symbolisation of Alphabet for an Unwritten Langauge

The considerations for the choice of a script from which the alphabet for an Unwritten language is drawn are largely social and educational. So are the Modifications necessary on the script to suit the phonemic inventary of the unwritten
language. These considerations recommend the use of the script of the official language of the state in which the unwritten language spoken. The principles of modification of this script and the relevance of writing of the unwritten language are discussed. The need for experimental research to answer certain questions of choice
from among the competing solutions is also pointed out.(The paper was also submitted to the Journal of Indian Linguistics)

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

16. M. Tataji

Highlights the potentialities of visual media in adult education and draws our attention to the law cost materials prepared at CIIL.

TESTING AND EVALUATION

17. K. Viswanatham

Adult Education and Language Testing

Provides a series of testing procedures and instruments for evaluating the performances of neoliterates in writing, reading, and listening skills

DESIGN

18. D. P. Pattanayak

Primer Construction : A Note

Provides a design for a primer in terms of contents, hours and duration.

MOTIVATION

19. T. R. Nagappa

The Unsolved Problem

Discuss various problems involved in motivation of learners for literacy in India and abroad.

MODELS AND FIELD STUDIES

20. S. K. Agarwal

Explains the method of preparing a primer talking into consideration the linguistic aspects of language and the technical aspects of printing and display.

21. Anil Vidyalankar

Teaching Initial Reading : the NCERT Method

Criticises the use of alphabetic system of script teaching in Indian Languages. He advocates the adoption of the NCERT method which is based on the frequency of occurrence of written symbols as opposed to the frequency of sounds in speech. He points out that with a set of only 18 symbols in Hindi one can learn 110 words.

22. OM Shrivastava

Adult Literacy : Transfer Model from Mother Tongue to State Language

Advocates the transfer model proposed by Annamalai and others for literacy instruction where initial teaching is done in the home language (dialect) and subsequently the learners are introduced to the norms of the standard dialect in a
gradual manner.

23. M. M. Choudhri

System Design for Production of Educational Materials for Rural Adults

Presents the design of a primer on the basis of consientisation and alphabetization. He emphasises the need to orally dramatise the stories in the primers.

24. R. S. Shafi

Development of Basic Materials for Adult Education

Adopts a communication model in developing literacy materials for a specific Group of Muslim women in Delhi on the basis of her survey of the leaner's interests
and language.

25. K. B. Rege

New treads in Curriculum Construction and Materials Development for Functional Literacy

Elaborately explains the modalities involved in preparing functionals literacy materials in Jaipur.

26. P. Somasekharan Nair

Functional Literacy Programme for the Tribals of Kerala: An Outline

Gives a picture of the tribal society of Attapady and a sketch of the materials he has prepared for them.

27. Hiralal Bachhotia

Language and Adult Education Advocates the use of standard language in literacy education.