ELT World » trinidad Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Trinidad: ALTA – teaching adults to read /2008/09/trinidad-alta-teaching-adults-to-read/ /2008/09/trinidad-alta-teaching-adults-to-read/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:27:37 +0000 david /news/?p=110 In the Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA) classroom, trained volunteer tutors and students work together to overcome the problems that stymied their childhood learning. To both these groups literacy represents power — the tutor holds the power to change and improve someone else’s life while the student gains the power to control his or her life in a society that depends upon the written words. In this “Age of Information” where the printed word has replaced the spoken word, you cannot get by without reading.

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