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Calvin R. Rensch
to travel outside the area, as there seems to be little difference
between the scores of those who have traveled and those who
have not. Certain factors within each village appear to be at
work:
First, the women of Sherpur have regular contact with Urdu
through radio and television. A household survey shows that
thirty Sherpur households have television sets and 112 have
radios. At times, members of households without television sets
spend time in households that have them, so the impact of the
thirty television sets in the community is not limited to just those
thirty households. This contrasts with the absence of television
and near absence of radios in Singo Di Garhi.
There is another factor within Sherpur which seems to
promote the learning of Urdu, a secondary effect of education.
Mothers and other women hear the school-going children recite
their lessons in Urdu day after day and, apparently as a result,
learn some of the Urdu of those lessons. The widespread and
longstanding availability of education in Sherpur apparently has
had an impact beyond its school-going population.
3.4.2 Pashto Sentence Repetition Test
The extent to which the men of Sherpur are proficient in
Pashto was tested by administering the Pashto Sentence
Repetition Test to thirty-four men. The scores from that testing
as distributed in the various age and education groups are
displayed in figure (3.7).