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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.