Online literacy for fluent Gaelic speakers - Free Course
In 1976 the Scottish Qualifications Authority appointed a committee to investigate the problem of Gaelic orthography and in 1981 the Gaelic Orthographic Conventions (GOC) paper was published.
Gaelic Language Skills for Fluent Speakers
All the lessons and exercises in this module are designed to familiarise fluent speakers with the GOC recommendations. There are lessons on more recent changes in spelling and form including borrowed words.
GOC is now the standard for Gaelic literacy. Faclair na Pàrlamaid - a dictionary of terms - published by the Scottish Executive in 2001, firmly accepts the principles of GOC, stating in the introduction: "It is our belief that there could be no logical alternative to this approach, which has been the basis on which children have been taught in schools for the past two decades. Any unreasonable departure from the conventions would have set back the progress of twenty years and led to widespread confusion." Some of the points of detail from the Faclair introduction are reproduced at the end of the lessons. Faclair na Pàrlamaid is available online at (www.scotland.gov.uk/dictionary).
