Building the Literacy and Languages site

We are building the skeleton of our site at present.

It will take some months for it to take shape.

The site will link TALULAR (Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available Resources) ideas to the learning areas found in African teacher education.

Please feel free to check our links and content as it develops.

International mother language day (21st Feb)

This United Nations site has many useful links: International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO's General Conference in November 1999.

The International Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage.

All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue. Text source: un.org

Written English: How it has changed

External link: Written word timeline of English starting c 1000

Beowulf (c 1000)

Chaucer (c 1300)

Johnson (c 1700)

Source: British library

Dictionaries and meanings

British library

Why write?

British Library

Dialects of the English language

Internal links
* What is English?

External links:
* World dialects of English (wikipedia)
* British English (wikipedia)
* International English (wikipedia)
* Malawian English (wikipedia)

English is a very flexible, borrowing language

Internal links
* What is English?

External links:
* British English (wikipedia)
* A borrowing language and loan words (wikipedia)

* Changing language (British Library)

* English language development timeline (British Library)

* Language and the written word (British Library)
* English words of international origin (wikipedia)
* English words of African origin (wikipedia)

What is English?

Internal links:

* English is a borrowing language

External links:
* English (wikipedia)

* British English (wikipedia)

* What is the anglosphere? (wikipedia)
* History of the English language (wikipedia)

* A borrowing language of great flexibility and a huge vocabulary
* English phonology (wikipedia)
* Phonological history of the English language (wikipedia)

Parts of speech

Internal links:
* Noun
* Verb
* Adverb
* Adjective


External links:
* Parts of speech (Wikipedia)

Adverb

Internal links:
* Parts of speech

External links:
* 6 definitions of the word adverb (dictionary.com)
* Adverb (Wikipedia)
* Adverb (grammar.about.com)
* How to use adverbs (ehow.com)

Adjective

Internal links:
* Parts of speech

External links:
* 6 definitions of the word adjective (dictionary.com)
* Adjective (Wikipedia)
* Adjective (grammar.about.com)

Extended research:
* Articles on adjectives (ehow.com)

Verb

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Internal links:
* Parts of speech

External links:
* 7 definitions of the word verb (dictionary.com)
* Verb (grammar.about.com)
* Verb (wikipedia) Being improved

* Verb (English and Hausa)

Extended research
* Assorted articles on verbs (ehow.com)

Noun

Internal links:
* Parts of speech

External links:
* 10+ definitions of the word noun (dictionary.com)
* Noun (wikipedia)
* Noun (grammar.about.com)
* Musical page on noun (school-house-rock.com)

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