Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Do you live or work in E Africa?
Bramuel Musya, director of The God's Story Project in E Africa, has just announced that there is to be an orality conference in Nairobi (Kenya) between 17th and 19th June this year.
If you are one of those involved, or interested, in becoming engaged in the use of cutting edge oral strategies for evangelism, discipleship and church planting, you are invited to attend as exploration is made of what God is doing through Orality movement and what still needs to be done in helping finish the task of reaching our world for Christ.
Promised is a time of learning, networking, and getting exposed to available tools and resources from different producers, and reasoning together on effective means to 'Finish The Task'!
More details cane be found in the Calendar section of our website and by clicking on the event entry there.
If you are one of those involved, or interested, in becoming engaged in the use of cutting edge oral strategies for evangelism, discipleship and church planting, you are invited to attend as exploration is made of what God is doing through Orality movement and what still needs to be done in helping finish the task of reaching our world for Christ.
Promised is a time of learning, networking, and getting exposed to available tools and resources from different producers, and reasoning together on effective means to 'Finish The Task'!
More details cane be found in the Calendar section of our website and by clicking on the event entry there.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
As a child grows
A quote from Sheila Caroll, founder of Living Books Curriculum regarding children and our human development:
Literacy is the ability to read and write; orality is the ability
to speak and listen. All four modes -- reading, writing, speaking,
and listening -- make up human communication. In language
arts instruction, the emphasis is usually on literacy -- reading
and writing. This is unfortunate because orality is an equally
necessary competency. In fact, without it, a child cannot
learn to read or write well. Orality must precede literacy.
The first language skill a child learns is to listen, then to
speak and only much later to read and still later to write. A
very young child is pre-literate and has what is called a
complete primary orality. That is, the child experiences the
world by seeing, touching and hearing. In that time before
formal instruction, the child and parent engage in "baby talk"
that includes rhythms, rhymes, and most of all stories.
Through these oral experiences, the infant or toddler learns
patterns of language. Gradually the child understands the
world through hearing and imitating sounds. In other words,
the meaning of words is associated with the sound.
Literacy is the ability to read and write; orality is the ability
to speak and listen. All four modes -- reading, writing, speaking,
and listening -- make up human communication. In language
arts instruction, the emphasis is usually on literacy -- reading
and writing. This is unfortunate because orality is an equally
necessary competency. In fact, without it, a child cannot
learn to read or write well. Orality must precede literacy.
The first language skill a child learns is to listen, then to
speak and only much later to read and still later to write. A
very young child is pre-literate and has what is called a
complete primary orality. That is, the child experiences the
world by seeing, touching and hearing. In that time before
formal instruction, the child and parent engage in "baby talk"
that includes rhythms, rhymes, and most of all stories.
Through these oral experiences, the infant or toddler learns
patterns of language. Gradually the child understands the
world through hearing and imitating sounds. In other words,
the meaning of words is associated with the sound.