The 1997 volume of "Notes on Literacy," numbers 1-4, includes the following articles: "Community Based Literacy, Burkina Faso"; "The Acquisition of a Second Writing System"; "Appropriate Methodology and Social Context"; "Literacy Megacourse Offered"; "Fitting in with Local Assumptions about Literacy: Some Ethiopian Experiences"; "Gender in Primers"; "Can There Be Writing without Reading?"; "A Serious Attempt To Setup a Community-Owned Literacy Project"; "Education and Development: Is the Relationship Always Positive?"; "The REFLECT Approach Used in an SIL Setting"; "Report on the 42nd Annual Convention of the International Reading Association"; "Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading between the Lines"; "The Place of Mother Tongue Literacy in Social Development in Three African Contexts"; "When Students Don't Learn, When Schools Don't Teach: Minority School Failure in Perspective." (KFT)