Developing Naskapi grammatical awareness and its effect on adult literacy (original) (raw)

SIL International and the Naskapi Development Corporation This is a presentation of research exploring how Naskapi grammatical awareness can be developed, providing insight into the form that pedagogical grammatical instruction should take, to equip Naskapi adults to become adequately literate in their mother tongue. The teaching method incorporates a grammatical description crafted to help speakers attain successful literacy in their own language, applied in the context of reading meaningful texts.