This paper focuses on the Vai people of Liberia, who have an independent phonetic writing system and teach it to the men of their society without formal education. There is Vai script, arabic script and english script. All three are used but by different degrees. The Vai script is for more personalized writing, and it is the most widely known, arabic script is used for religion and is the second most widely known. English script is used for political, official work and is the least known.
The authors describe how Arabic is learned by the Vai people, it starts of with the authors call "rote memorization" where students recite words they don't understand and can't decode but after that phase is complete the students learn how to speak arabic and how to actually write the language. "Thus Arabic literacy can relate to individuals to text on both the 'lowest' (repetition without comprehension0 and 'highest' (analysis of textual meaning) levels."
The way Vai script is learned is a bit different and the authors call it "literacy without education". Usually, a friend, relative or fellow citizens agrees to teach the characters to the person who is acting as the student. The student commits it to memory and practices writing names and letters.
The main question raised by this article is: What is real literacy?
the Vai people don't learn Via script and Arabic script the conventional way yet they can write and read the language.
In the beginning of the article there is a model on what writing is, the authors conclude that the model "fails to give full justice to the multiplicity of values, uses, and consequences which characterize writing as a social practice."
The authors describe how Arabic is learned by the Vai people, it starts of with the authors call "rote memorization" where students recite words they don't understand and can't decode but after that phase is complete the students learn how to speak arabic and how to actually write the language. "Thus Arabic literacy can relate to individuals to text on both the 'lowest' (repetition without comprehension0 and 'highest' (analysis of textual meaning) levels."
The way Vai script is learned is a bit different and the authors call it "literacy without education". Usually, a friend, relative or fellow citizens agrees to teach the characters to the person who is acting as the student. The student commits it to memory and practices writing names and letters.
The main question raised by this article is: What is real literacy?
the Vai people don't learn Via script and Arabic script the conventional way yet they can write and read the language.
In the beginning of the article there is a model on what writing is, the authors conclude that the model "fails to give full justice to the multiplicity of values, uses, and consequences which characterize writing as a social practice."
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