Mother Tongue-based Literacy Programmes: Case Studies of Good ...

Before opening the school, the research team arranges a 2-day refreshers’ training for the teachers sothat they can undertake necessary preparations for opening the schools and dealing properly with thechildren. The training also provides an opportunity for the teachers to reinforce the knowledge and skillsthat they have already gained.Literacy Teaching Plan and MethodsBridging Plan between L1 and L2Although ASHRAI had considerable experience in education programming, it had no experience inworking with MLE programmes. As such, when the ARP project was launched in 2002, it did not considerand plan a strategy to bridge between the L1 and L2. As the early phase of the project progressed,however, the research team began contacting resource people and institutions to collect ideas forbridging the mother tongue-based instruction to the national language education. Towards this aim,ARP organized a very important workshop on “Language Bridging” on 27 September 2005 in Rajshahi.Community leaders, teaching professionals from the community, university students and ARP teacherresearch team members all participated to discuss and decide upon the bridging strategy. The workshopwas facilitated by consultants and research team members.© ASHRAI Workshop on “bridging” strategy development[ 40 ]