NSTP: Literacy Training Service

LTS 1 - CSSP Linggwistiks

1st Semester, AY 2011-2012
Course Description Requirements:

Title: Literacy Training Service (LTS) course
Schedule: Mondays, 2p-5p, 27 June – 3 October 2011
Concept:
The Literacy Training Service under the NSTP aims to “train students to become
teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out-of-school youth, and
other segments of society in need of their service”
More pointedly, this pilot Literacy Training Service course in UP Diliman is based on
the notion of a functionally literate person, drawn from the 1978 UNESCO General
Conference, as one “who can engage in all those activities in which literacy is required
for effective functioning of his group and community and also for enabling him to
continue to use reading, writing and calculation for his own and the community’s
development.”
Objectives:
 to build a set of reading materials drawn from oral narratives of folkloric or
historical nature.
 to contribute to the basic database on the phonetic and writing systems of
Philippine languages other than Tagalog/Filipino
 to initiate note-taking on the semantic and grammatical comparison of
Tagalog and other Philippine languages.
 to develop a fuller appreciation of Philippine folklore and local history, and
how these are expressed in oral and written language
 to develop interest in and appreciation of local languages
Each team of no more than four students should complete a set of:
 Twelve narratives (folkloric or historical)
 At least twenty proverbs sourced from elderly informants, and submitted in
the following forms:
 audio files of actual sessions with informants
 verbatim transcription of the actual sessions
 edited versions of the narratives and proverbs to serve as materials for
teaching literacy, preferably with illustrations
 Filipino translations of the narratives and proverbs, with notes on words or
idioms that are not readibly translatable
 English translations of the narratives and proverbs, with notes on words or
idioms that are not readibly translatable
 one-page bio-data, with photo, of all informants
Each representative team per non-Tagalog language should complete a vernacular
translation of the IPA version of the folktale “The North Wind and the Sun”, and
submitted in the following forms:
 the vernacular translation, with notes on words or idioms that are not
readibly translatable
 a very clear audio file of someone reading the vernacular translation
Grading Criteria:
 authenticity of narratives and proverbs
 accuracy of transcription
 rhetoric and discourse quality of the edited versions
 relative accuracy of the translations
 aesthetic qualities of the reports

Prepared by:
Jonathan Malicsi, PhD
Professor of Linguistics
30 May 11