These people are motivated to learn English, and as long as they can read in their native language, this would be a worthwhile investment.

Bouabré created it to help Bété people learn to read in their language.

There they learned to read God's word in their language which was reduced by the missionaries into written form.

Within a few years, thousands of Cherokees learned to read and write in their own language.

What's more, all these writers are read in their original language: English.

For that, he said, the Yanomami need schools where Indian children can learn to read and write in their language.

As a result, the bard would never learn to read or write in his native language.

It has been used to teach about 60 million people to read in their own language.

Invariably they say they did, clearly reluctant to be classified as not able to read in their own language.

Hawaiians learned to read rapidly in their own language.