Cameroon

List of Abreviations.............3, List of IPA Diacritics ......3, List of diacritics used in the Chrambo tone orthography ..........3, Acknowledgements...........4, 1. Introduction ...........5, 1.1 Language Classification and relation to neighbouring languages..........5, 1.2 Background to previous linguistic research ...........6, 2. The role of a test class in developing the initial proposal .......6, 2.1 Test group 1: A first primer class.......6, 2.1.1 Background to test group 1:.........6, 2.1.2 Aims of test group 1: ........8, 2.1.3 Summary of test group 1 ...........8, 2.1.4 Discussion of test group 1: ..........9, 3. Testing and refining the tone orthography proposal.........9, 3.1 Test group 2: The first “literate in English” group ..........10, 3.1.1 Aims of test group 2: ........10, 3.1.2 Summary of test group 2 .......10, 3.1.3 Results of the reading and writing test taken by test group 2 ........14, 3.1.4 Discussion of test group 2...........15, 3.2 Changes to the tone orthography and teaching method as a result of test 2........16, 3.2.1 Changes to the tone orthography on the basis of these results:.........17, 3.2.2 Changes to the teaching method:...........17, 3.3 Test group 3: A second primer class ..........18, 3.3.1 Aims of test group 3 ..........18, 3.3.2 Summary of test group 3: ...........18, 3.3.3 Discussion of test 3 .........27, 3.4 Test group 4: a second literate in English group..........29, 3.4.1 Aims of test 4:.........29, 3.4.2 Summary of test 4...........29, 3.4.3 Discussion of test 4 ...........32, 4. Conclusion...........32, References .............34, Appendix A: The revised tone orthography proposal (May 2012) .......35