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Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso
(World Bank, 2003)
Abstract
Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness ...
Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)
Abstract
Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary ...