ABSTRACT
By the summer of 2003, a pilot project that had started with fewer than 100 participants and 5 teachers in 1995 in Istanbul had expanded to become a model, evidence-based adult literacy program with well-established assessment, evaluation, and staff development components and had reached a diverse group of 35,000 participants from 17 provinces in Turkey. In this chapter, we describe the development and implementation of the Functional Adult Literacy Program (FALP) with special emphasis on how research and theory in literacy acquisition informed and shaped the nature of the program and how lessons learned through the implementation of the program, in turn, shaped our conceptualization of the model for adult literacy acquisition.
