wycliffe associates uk1 easyenglish presentation martin lloyd

Wycliffe Associates UK 1

EasyEnglish Presentation

Martin Lloyd


What is EasyEnglish?

It has a reduced lexicon and reduced grammar - but is perfectly good standard English

It is designed for people who have some, but not a great deal of English

It is a principled way of producing simple English texts

for whom English is their second or third language


Grammar

• No passives

• No rhetorical questions

• Verbs rather than abstract nouns

• Two clauses per sentence


Production materials

EE is produced using:

EasyEnglish Lexicon

EasyEnglish Grammatical manual

EasyEnglish Checking Software


Purpose WA (UK) is interested in producing

To help Pastors and Mother Tongue Translators in their workTo reach many more people with

God’s Word

Bible commentaries Translation helps Other Christian materials

Dr Raymond Brown’s Bible GuideCrossway Bible Guides (UCCP)


Customers

We write at three levels for different audiences

(LEE) Leaders EasyEnglish - with 2800 word lexicon - level B

(TEE) Mother-tongue Translators - with 1200 word Lexicon - Level A

(AEE) Accessible EasyEnglish - for people who have Learning Disabilities


Purpose: To help Church Leaders and Pastors with

Personal Devotions

Sermon Preparation

Bible Study Materials

Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)


Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)

Checked by:

Theological Checkers

Linguistic Checkers

29 books finished and on the internet

with 8 through Advanced Theological Checking


Translators EasyEnglish (TEE)

TEE is mainly designed to give background support to Mother-tongue

Translators. But it also gives easy to read materials suitable for:

• encouraging and training Christians

• evangelism and follow-up


Translators EasyEnglish (TEE)

Checked by:

39 books finished and on the internet

•Theological Checkers

•Linguistic Checkers

with 14 through Advanced Exegetical

Checking


Accessible EasyEnglish (AEE)

Written for and field-tested with people having learning disabilities.

Many organisations also use AEE for immigrants from non-Anglophone countries, who are starting to learn English.

5 collections on the web - 10 on CDs


Publicity and Distribution

We gladly supply our materials free of charge for others to illustrate, culturally adapt, print out and use by:

Internet website

Emails and CDs

www.easyenglish.info


Networking

• AIM - Jan King- Kenya

• CMS - Crowther Hall - UK

• WBT - Lynn Wood - PNG

• IEM - Director - India

• SOON - Tony Whittaker - UK

• SIM - Jim Mason - Canada


Other people writing EE

• Director Translations, B Socy of India

• David Angango - TWR, Kenya• June Whittaker - WEC, Ghana• Caroline Seed - CMS, Nigeria• Rev John Hibberd - evangelistic

materials for Kenya• Moorlands College, UK


SIL/WBT

• Key Terms for Biblical Hebrew - EasyEnglish have been asked to join this important SIL team - led by Richard Hoyle

• Luke study questions - Katy Barnwell• More than 50 SIL members have

requested EE CDs


SIL/WBT and WA UK

Service & fellowship :• we have one expertise - EE • you have many

Vision 2025 - ‘…together with others’

We delight to be one of these ‘others’


Feedback

•China ..."...these appear to be at exactly the right level for some

of the congregation here. I would also appreciate your

permission to get these translated into Chinese...."

•Croatia ...I have produced 15 copies of James and given them to

members of our church who know English. They loved it

and would like other books."

•Ghana ..."I found your version of Esther extremely useful recently."


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Key features

• Checked Theology

• Consistent simple English

• Free materials


Enabling

• Individual Christians

• Church leaders

• Mother Tongue Translators

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