AN OVERVIEW

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AN OVERVIEW OF THAILANDS LIGHTHOUSE LITERACY
PROGRAM
May 2002
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In Australia, a quarter of a century ago,
a literacy research institute headed by
PDG.Dr.Richard Walker undertook a project to
solve the problem of almost total failure to
learn to read and write among Aboriginal children
at a school in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
The researcher, Dr. Brian Gray, found that these
children could not enter into the traditional
literacy learning process at all but over a
period of several years, he developed an approach
through which virtually all of these children
succeeded in learning to read and write. He named
that approach Concentrated Language Encounter
(CLE) techniques.
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In 1987,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saowalak Rattanavich, head of
Language Teaching Research and Development
Centre, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
convinced Dr.Walker to come to Thailand and
started a literacy project in Surin Province,
Northeast of Thailand using CLE teaching
technique in Thai with the collaboration of the
Primary Education Department
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After a 2 year pilot program, the project
received A Rotary Foundation 3H Grant for 5
years and carried out in Surin, Buriram,
Chaiyaphum and Sri Saket Provinces.
800 classrooms Grade I to VI
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Primary Education
Surin Chaiyaphum Burirum Srisaket (Grade I to VI)
SrinakharinwirotUniversity
TRF D. 3350 3360
Dr.Saowalak
Dr.Walker
Noraseth
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The project was so successful, the government
decided to adopt CLE teaching technique and
Rotary is helping the government to spread the
program throughout the country.
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Lighthouse Concept at the 1989 Seoul Convention
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LIGHTHOUSE STRATEGY
Using CLE teaching technique
1) 2-year pilot project
2) Expand to 3H project (5 years)
3) Government takes over
4) Rotary helping government and other
International agencies to extend the program
throughout the country
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Chiangrai Chiang Mai

• To Chiang Mai, Chiangrai in the North

• Extended to 5 Provinces in the South

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Resources Development

• Training of Key Personnel, training of the
  trainers (the best 50 Thai, 20 English)

• Materials development

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Resources Development
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Resources Development