Literacy at a distance in multilingual contexts: Issues and challenges

Literacy is perhaps the most fundamental skill required for effective participation in education (formal and non-formal) for national development. At the same time, the choice of language for literacy is a complex issue in multilingual societies like Nigeria. This paper examines the issues involved...

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Autor principal:	Christine I Ofulue
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2011
Materias:	Literacy multilingual societies ICTs case studies development Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0160fe307fef431e91dff671b8fa489f2021-12-02T18:03:25ZLiteracy at a distance in multilingual contexts: Issues and challenges10.19173/irrodl.v12i6.9811492-3831https://doaj.org/article/0160fe307fef431e91dff671b8fa489f2011-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/981https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 Literacy is perhaps the most fundamental skill required for effective participation in education (formal and non-formal) for national development. At the same time, the choice of language for literacy is a complex issue in multilingual societies like Nigeria. This paper examines the issues involved, namely language policy, language and teacher development, and the role of distance education and information and communication technologies (ICTs), in making literacy accessible in as many languages as possible. Two distance learning literacy projects are presented as case studies and the lessons learned are discussed. The findings of this study suggest that although there is evidence of growing accessibility to ICTs like mobile phones, their use and success to increase access to literacy in the users’ languages are yet to be attained and maximised. The implication of the lessons learned should be relevant to other multilingual nations that seek the goal of increasing access to learning and promoting development so as to harvest economic benefits. Christine I OfulueAthabasca University PressarticleLiteracymultilingual societiesICTscase studiesdevelopmentSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 12, Iss 6 (2011)
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description	Literacy is perhaps the most fundamental skill required for effective participation in education (formal and non-formal) for national development. At the same time, the choice of language for literacy is a complex issue in multilingual societies like Nigeria. This paper examines the issues involved, namely language policy, language and teacher development, and the role of distance education and information and communication technologies (ICTs), in making literacy accessible in as many languages as possible. Two distance learning literacy projects are presented as case studies and the lessons learned are discussed. The findings of this study suggest that although there is evidence of growing accessibility to ICTs like mobile phones, their use and success to increase access to literacy in the users’ languages are yet to be attained and maximised. The implication of the lessons learned should be relevant to other multilingual nations that seek the goal of increasing access to learning and promoting development so as to harvest economic benefits.
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Literacy at a distance in multilingual contexts: Issues and challenges

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