Browsing Helen Abadzi, Ph.D. by Title
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Strategies and policies for literacy
(UNESCO, 2004-05-31)Executive Summary 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 ... -
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 ... -
A Texas city magnet program: 1981-82 evaluation materials and results
(Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. Department of Research and Evaluation, 1984)In order to promote voluntary integration in two high schools and a middle school, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas developed a magnet program that offers specialized curricula: engineering at the all ... -
Visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition: Instructional implication for beginning readers in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving ... -
What we know about acquisition of adult literacy: is there hope?
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, June 1994)Literacy acquired in childhood positively influences quality of life, but the effects of literacy acquired in adulthood are not well known. Experience shows that literacy is not easily disseminated to adults and that the ... -
Why we need ancient Greek and how to remember it: Comparisons between Greece and South Asia
(Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994)