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98% of the World's Languages Lack a Literacy Games App. Now What?

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Vision:

We long to see people flourishing in community using the languages they value most.

1,341 projects

98 countries

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~165 languages with a literacy games app

~5.5 billion supported

7,164 languages

2%

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~7,000 languages with no literacy games app

~5.5 billion supported

~2.7 billion NOT supported

~165 languages with a literacy games app

7,164 languages

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370 million [children] are not being taught in the language they best speak and understand.

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  • Gamified wordlist
  • For Android devices
  • 100+ literacy games
  • Fully functional offline
  • Open-source

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SIL Global EdTech

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Alpha Tiles

  • 123 localizations of Alpha Tiles in 41 countries

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  • Middle 50% of 123 languages between 8,000 and 380,000 speakers

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  • 18 localizations into Arabic, Devanagari, Khmer, Lao, Mandarin and Thai script languages

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preparing build files

team testing

community testing

Play Store

non-Latin

script

PHASES

Languages Using Alpha Tiles

September 2024

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10

34

35

2

6

2

2

2

4

1

1

1

2

7

2

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

4

1

6

3

1

3

1

3

17

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3

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2

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1

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2

2

1

1

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1

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1

1

1

1

3

3

2

1

2

2

1

31

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1

5

2

2

1

7

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6

1

2

1

3

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2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

4

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1

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1

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Localizing Alpha Tiles into New Languages

  • 63 of 123 apps: virtual collaboration with SIL in Google Drive

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  • 59 of 123 apps: one-week SIL workshop

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  • 1 of 123 apps: created by others (open-source user)

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Our Language First (Pilot Program)

  • 10 teachers

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  • 185 students

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Student Assessments

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ANECDOTALLY

SURVEY, ASSESSMENT & OBSERVATION

5-10%

>25%

L1

65-80%

L1 or L2

Miꞌphaa

speaking

proficiency

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Section 3

Missing Letter from Word

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Grade

Sep 2022

Mar 2023

2A

52%

77%

3A

49%

57%

4A

53%

75%

4B

47%

74%

5A

58%

87%

6A

71%

82%

6B

72%

84%

Sections

1, 2, 3, 5

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1 Letter Name

2 First Letter of Word

3 Missing Letter

5 Choose the Word

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“Ana”

“Beto”

“Carlos”

Speaks Spanish at home

Speaks Spanish and Mi̱’phaa in the home

Speaks Mi̱’phaa at home

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Multilingual EdTech

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Typical

EdTech

program

Non-dominant language EdTech program

Multilingual

EdTech

program

Spanish

Miꞌpha̱a̱

Miꞌpha̱a̱ &

Spanish

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Kenya

Mexico

Mexico

Colombia

Thailand

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Summer Programming Interns 2024

Camden

Fiona

Kevin

Luke

Elliot

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More Information

alpha_tiles@sil.org aaron_hemphill@sil.org

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AlphaTilesApps.org

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