Who should write the text-books? Few people are prepared to write in a
vernacular as {1) there is probably no financial reward, (2) there is the
possibility of unfavourable reviews, which in a small community could prove
embarrassing, (3) readership is limited, and (4) the editions are smaJI. The
ideal writer should have linguistic and educational qualifications, a good
knowledge of the area and its educational problems, and some experience in
teaching his mother tongue. In the case of a language being reintroduced to
children, he would also have to know how to present his mother tongue as a
foreign language. This would involve a contrastive analysis of the languages
involved (Boon, 1969). The sort of materials required are: (1) primers, (2)
readers, (3) informative reading material, and (4) non-informative reading
material, such as comics, the latter being important as children learn best to
read by reading for entertainment.