Word: laubach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT S. LAUBACH-Lecturer in Literacy Journalism Syracuse University Syracuse...
...Literacy Pioneer Frank Laubach, who in 30 years has taught 100 million adults in 100 countries to read...
...Bird. Curriculum is the famed phonetic reading system invented by 75-year-old Dr. Frank C. Laubach. As a Congregationalist missionary in the Philippines 30 years ago, Laubach designed picture-word-syllable charts of the Maranaw language, launched an "Each-One-Teach-One" campaign among Moro tribesmen that made them 90% literate in a few months. The system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed...
...Laubach has tackled 260 languages and dialects in 97 countries, founded a worldwide literacy drive whose current momentum comes from the first TV use of his system four years ago by WKNO-TV in Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple...