South Lanark Adult Scots Project

South Lanarkshire Council has recently taken a few steps towards literacy for Scots speakers. David McDonald, who is an Adult Literacy Worker with Community Learning Service, has been working on ways of helping adults with improving literacy. Authorities and service in Scotland have increasingly come to recognise that perceived problems in literacy stem from a lack of opportunities to learn through the mother tongue. To address this, Mr McDonald has begun producing a monthly online newsletter, centered around a time-travelling character called Ruaridh, which gives examples of the differences between the grammar and words used in the English and Scots languages, and attempts to assist Scots speakers with literacy in their own mother tongue. If you would like to learn more about this please follow this link www.writing-about.net