The word "literacy," which was first used in the nineteenth century to mean the opposite of the more easily defined term "illiteracy," has come to be a widely accepted term. In most cases, literacy means the ability to read...

Literacy The ability to read and write. Declining literacy in the United States has been an increasing cause for concern in recent decades. The Department of Education's National Adult Literacy survey, released in 1993, surveyed a demographic...

Literacy has long been a topic of interest, and more interdisciplinary than most. Thus there has been a series of both specific and wide-ranging studies by, for example, psychologists, sociolinguists, development experts, educationalists and,...

See also boys’ literacy, equal opportunities, gender and language development In the interests of improving gender equality, the 1970s and 1980s saw the challenging of stereotyping of girls and women in children’s literature. It was thought...

In the mid-1960s the place and meaning of the concept and the fact of literacy in the social sciences was a simple and secure one. Tied closely to the liberal, post-Englightement synthesis of modernization theory, literacy was seen as a central...

Human beings have over the ages developed a series of media to express or represent features of the social and natural world or to translate one medium into another through culturally-acceptable analogues: drum beats experienced as if spoken words,...

The PRC has given a great deal of attention to eradicating illiteracy. Many campaigns have been directed towards this objective, including one beginning in 1994. Some census figures indicate the progress made. The 1964 census showed 38.1 per cent of...

1 The ability to read or write. The teaching of literacy is considered a major goal of industrialized nations with universal education. The rates of illiteracy vary widely among countries, depending partly upon how it is measured and how it is defined....

See also EXIT model, genre, genre exchange, non-fiction reading and writing, research (into Primary English) and writing frames The Exeter University Extending Literacy Project (EXEL) was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and headed by David Wray and...

See also Literacy Time, text level work, writing The term ‘shared writing’ refers to any collaborative writing task. For example, a group of children may write a story together with or without the teacher’s help – on a white...

Ability to read and write. The term may also refer to familiarity with literature and to a basic level of education obtained through the written word. In ancient civilizations such as those of the Sumerians and Babylonians, literacy was the province of...

The setting up of an Adult Literacy Research Agency in 1975 was the first official recognition of the large proportion of the adult population in need of literacy skills. A national campaign was mounted and local authorities and voluntary agencies were...

The 1998 Literacy Strategy Framework recommended that teachers put in place a carefully structured hour each day devoted to literacy teaching. Although the literacy hour was non-statutory, most primary schools chose to work within it. The renewed...

The ability to read and write at a conventionally accepted level. There is no universal standard of literacy, but within any given society it is possible to define functional literacy and then to arrive at figures for the number of illiterates in that...

Literacy is on the face of it something simple and straightforward, familiar in both everyday life and academic discourse, and the natural subject of study by a range of different disciplines. But like many such concepts, it is both more complex and...

See also Primary framework for literacy and mathematics Since the 2006 renewal of the 1998 literacy framework, which resulted in the electronic guidance Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics, primary teachers of children aged three to eleven...

Literacy Land is an up-to-date reading programme which helps meet the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy and offers support to children’s reading across the curriculum. It has three strands: story street, genre range and info-trail....

1. The reading and writing ability for a person to engage effectively in those activities normally expected from an adult member of a culture group. 2. It is often defined as a reading age of 9.5 years or 5 years of schooling, although there is...

As a result of the Secretary’s Initiative on Adult Literacy this 14-month project was launched in late 1983 in the...

The day each year, 8 September, which UNESCO devotes to the recognition of the need for adult...

1. Adult education to teach adults to read and write. 2. Adult basic...

A United Nations day–8 September each...

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The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for communication,...