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1Adult Illiteracy

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1Observations

• Adult illiteracy levels in India are at 30 to 40% of the adult population

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• The expectation is that it will take another 15 years to raise literacy levels significantly

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• The Literacy Mission’s material in this regard is excellent and addresses Reading and Writing skills.

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• Social awareness is also propagated through this material.

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• Traditional teaching approaches need many qualified teachers, and each programme needs long attention spans from illiterate adults.

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1TCS’ Motivations

• We have benefited from the Information Age and the Knowledge Economy

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1TCS’ Motivations

• Would like to employ our background and professional experience to significantly speed up the spread of adult literacy

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• Adults have intuitive grasp of language and have innate cognitive capability

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• Of the three R’s, Reading is the most important skill and is most used

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• Facility with reading can provide the motivation and self help capability for acquiring others skills

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• Illiterate adults use language. They have sufficient vocabulary to cope with their essential communication needs

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• They need to learn

– to recognize graphical representation of letters–mapping between letters and

sounds

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1Basis of TCS’ Experiments

• Reading is the ability to harmonize graphical patterns with sounds to relate to words they know

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• Teachers are in short supply

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Studied material used by several approaches to address adult in several languages. Found NLM material to be best researched

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Develop Computer Based Training material for teaching reading skills based on NLM material

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Started experiments in Telugu

• Created 18 lessons using NLM material

• over 40 hours instruction needed over 8 to 10 weeks

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Three site experiments show

–value of multiple aids to reinforce cognitive learning

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Three site experiments show

–value of researchers in organizing the instruction in terms of sequencing the matter, and effort and time to be spent on various topics

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1TCS’ Experiments

• Three site experiments show

–ability to read slowly words with letters they have been taught in 3 to 4 weeks

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1TCS’ Experiments

• In 8 to 10 weeks, they can read newspapers slowly by themselves

• Use their intuition to guess the words they do not know

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Adult Literacy Programme

Telugu

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1CBT Development Team

Ms. Bhanu IyerM.Krishna Kumar

Dr. Sharada GaneshProf. P. N. Murthy

Dr. M. V. Ananthakrishnan

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1Analysis

• 15 to 20 adults per session• 1.5 to 2 hour sessions• 3 times a week• 2 shifts, different groups on

alternate days

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• At one site, 240 - 450 adults pa • 20,000 sites will serve 5 million

adults a year at a minimum

• Adult literacy in Andhra can be significantly improved in 3 to 5 years

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• Use of technology reduces the need for well qualified teachers to conduct every session

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• Teachers

–Senior school students and professional degree students can be deployed

–NGOs can be tapped

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• National Literacy Mission produced materials are an excellent starting point for all Indian Languages

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1Next steps

• Start development of course material for teaching reading skills in other languages

• Tamil, Marathi, Hindi ...

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1Next steps

• Launch 60-80 simultaneous initiatives in Andhra to validate current experience and improve course material

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• Experiment with Wireless Local Loop communications technology to reach remote locations and back up their facilities

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1Thank you