noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
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If the goal is to attract adult nonreaders into literacy programs, we may wonder what results can be expected.
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These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided.
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In December 1983, I am invited to an adult literacy center, not far from my home in Massachusetts.
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But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary.
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This is the only adult literacy center in an impoverished mill town which is home to 80, 000 people.
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It could be that adult literacy is an important programme undertaken in the adult education budget.
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There were also innovations in childcare, community education and adult literacy .
basic
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There is, however, considerable concern amongst employers about basic skills including literacy and numeracy.
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And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
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The emphasis is on contact and a chance to talk: non-formal activities centring on children, domestic skills and basic literacy .
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Dozens of other people were given basic literacy and numeracy training and enlisted to record client data.
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As well as teaching basic literacy skills the unit also teaches maths and numeracy.
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On international assessments of basic literacy , our students on average score better than those from other large countries.
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The two main tasks of acquiring oral/aural competence and achieving basic literacy are dealt with in the course's two parallel streams.
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We have seen that less than 1 percent of in-house training programs run by corporations are addressed to basic literacy needs.
high
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Both cities have high literacy rates.
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A high standard of literacy , however, will be required.
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At around 90 % the country has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent.
mass
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By itself mass literacy does not bring about economic development.
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This did not depend on majority let alone mass literacy .
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Too few mass literacy campaigns have even acknowledged this fact.
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An age of mass literacy similarly presents advantages and limitations.
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The first phases of a mass literacy campaign were launched.
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Or do they need a mass literacy programme?
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On this basis, precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World.
universal
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This in turn gave the schools the heavy assignment of universal literacy .
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campaign
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Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign .
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Too few mass literacy campaigns have even acknowledged this fact.
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Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones, carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work.
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The first phases of a mass literacy campaign were launched.
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Adult literacy campaigns aim to improve writing as well as reading.
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The use of indigenous languages in the Burkina literacy campaign is both practical and political.
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As Douglas Guerero, in charge of the literacy campaign pointed out, this' has not been induced by the institutions themselves.
class
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During the Contra war, Enriqueta ran literacy classes in some of the most conflict-torn areas of the country.
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Sarah and Theodore are attending a literacy class , taught in a shut-down factory, in the nearby city of Le6n.
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Since the formal education of many of their readers ended at 13 or younger, the Bund organised literacy classes and libraries.
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These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided.
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This affects the education of children as well as literacy classes and other types of non-formal education for adults.
computer
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Video games are increasingly the starting blocks to full computer literacy .
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Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.
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Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.
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Once merely a nice thing to have on a resume, computer literacy is now essential for virtually anyone in the workplace.
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On top of this the micro-revolution is bringing a massive rise in computer literacy .
level
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And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.
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Excellence at the top, in short, is intimately tied to the collapse of literacy levels at the bottom.
program
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Those activities could include attending a literacy program , doing volunteer work, or attending parenting classes.
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If the goal is to attract adult nonreaders into literacy programs , we may wonder what results can be expected.
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They did their best to get him signed up in a literacy program .
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The largest literacy program in this county reaches one hundred people yearly.
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The largest organization that provides funds to the literacy programs of the city reaches 700 to 1, 000 people.
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He proposed a technology literacy program to integrate computers into classrooms.
rate
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They joined the National Literacy Campaign, an enormously successful initiative, which achieved a dramatic increase in literacy rates .
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He has set up the Starbucks Foundation to help improve literacy rates .
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Both cities have high literacy rates .
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It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated, with a resulting boost to literacy rates .
skill
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Many of us hesitate to criticize the careless statements of poor people who have only recently developed literacy skills .
work
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After short training courses, they continued literacy work and adult education, mostly in the communities where they lived.
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My own initial year of literacy work confirms for me the presence of a limitless degree of motivation.
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This adds difficulties to literacy work .
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The White House urged the colleges to view this as a model to become involved in literacy work in future years.
worker
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The literacy worker needs to look ahead: Will this be useful?
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The booklets that have been transcribed by literacy workers need not have a national or even citywide appeal.
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Let the literacy workers be members of the community, not outsiders.
■ VERB
achieve
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This system aimed to give those who achieved literacy access to further training courses.
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The two main tasks of acquiring oral/aural competence and achieving basic literacy are dealt with in the course's two parallel streams.
improve
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He has set up the Starbucks Foundation to help improve literacy rates.
promote
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But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary.
teach
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One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers.
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Many ideas for teaching aspects of literacy are linked to a wide range of science contexts.
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As well as teaching basic literacy skills the unit also teaches maths and numeracy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Literacy levels amongst girls very quickly overtook those of boys.
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special classes in basic skills such as literacy and numeracy
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The program is designed to promote literacy in the community.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But literacy and the written word do have a part to play.
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Even less has there been evidence of any real correlation of objectivity itself with literacy practice.
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He proposed a technology literacy program to integrate computers into classrooms.
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Others were with the resource specialist working on literacy materials geared specifically to their varying reading levels.
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Questions of literacy , in Socrates' belief, must at length be judged as matters of morality.
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There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy .
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There is, however, considerable concern amongst employers about basic skills including literacy and numeracy.
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Those activities could include attending a literacy program, doing volunteer work, or attending parenting classes.