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Title: | Some Problems of the Use of African Vernaculars |
Author: | Winterbottom, J.M. |
Year: | 1949 |
Periodical: | Rhodes-Livingstone Journal |
Volume: | 7 |
Pages: | 67-74 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
Subjects: | language instruction linguistics Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | Teaching to read: vowels first or syllables first? Dialectal differences should not be allowed to complicate text books and primers, short and simply-spelt words of any dialect should have preference over any other. A word of one two-letter and one three-letter syllable is easy to read. Use of minor dialects only in the first years. Only the main languages should be encouraged. |