LITERACY


Meaning of LITERACY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

adult

If the goal is to attract adult nonreaders into literacy programs, we may wonder what results can be expected.

These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided.

In December 1983, I am invited to an adult literacy center, not far from my home in Massachusetts.

But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary.

This is the only adult literacy center in an impoverished mill town which is home to 80, 000 people.

It could be that adult literacy is an important programme undertaken in the adult education budget.

There were also innovations in childcare, community education and adult literacy .

basic

There is, however, considerable concern amongst employers about basic skills including literacy and numeracy.

And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.

The emphasis is on contact and a chance to talk: non-formal activities centring on children, domestic skills and basic literacy .

Dozens of other people were given basic literacy and numeracy training and enlisted to record client data.

As well as teaching basic literacy skills the unit also teaches maths and numeracy.

On international assessments of basic literacy , our students on average score better than those from other large countries.

The two main tasks of acquiring oral/aural competence and achieving basic literacy are dealt with in the course's two parallel streams.

We have seen that less than 1 percent of in-house training programs run by corporations are addressed to basic literacy needs.

high

Both cities have high literacy rates.

A high standard of literacy , however, will be required.

At around 90 % the country has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent.

mass

By itself mass literacy does not bring about economic development.

This did not depend on majority let alone mass literacy .

Too few mass literacy campaigns have even acknowledged this fact.

An age of mass literacy similarly presents advantages and limitations.

The first phases of a mass literacy campaign were launched.

Or do they need a mass literacy programme?

On this basis, precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World.

universal

This in turn gave the schools the heavy assignment of universal literacy .

■ NOUN

campaign

Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign .

Too few mass literacy campaigns have even acknowledged this fact.

Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones, carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work.

The first phases of a mass literacy campaign were launched.

Adult literacy campaigns aim to improve writing as well as reading.

The use of indigenous languages in the Burkina literacy campaign is both practical and political.

As Douglas Guerero, in charge of the literacy campaign pointed out, this' has not been induced by the institutions themselves.

class

During the Contra war, Enriqueta ran literacy classes in some of the most conflict-torn areas of the country.

Sarah and Theodore are attending a literacy class , taught in a shut-down factory, in the nearby city of Le6n.

Since the formal education of many of their readers ended at 13 or younger, the Bund organised literacy classes and libraries.

These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided.

This affects the education of children as well as literacy classes and other types of non-formal education for adults.

computer

Video games are increasingly the starting blocks to full computer literacy .

Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.

Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.

Once merely a nice thing to have on a resume, computer literacy is now essential for virtually anyone in the workplace.

On top of this the micro-revolution is bringing a massive rise in computer literacy .

level

And basic literacy levels are higher for a more diverse group of young people.

Excellence at the top, in short, is intimately tied to the collapse of literacy levels at the bottom.

program

Those activities could include attending a literacy program , doing volunteer work, or attending parenting classes.

If the goal is to attract adult nonreaders into literacy programs , we may wonder what results can be expected.

They did their best to get him signed up in a literacy program .

The largest literacy program in this county reaches one hundred people yearly.

The largest organization that provides funds to the literacy programs of the city reaches 700 to 1, 000 people.

He proposed a technology literacy program to integrate computers into classrooms.

rate

They joined the National Literacy Campaign, an enormously successful initiative, which achieved a dramatic increase in literacy rates .

He has set up the Starbucks Foundation to help improve literacy rates .

Both cities have high literacy rates .

It is since the 1950s that the expansion in education has really accelerated, with a resulting boost to literacy rates .

skill

Many of us hesitate to criticize the careless statements of poor people who have only recently developed literacy skills .

work

After short training courses, they continued literacy work and adult education, mostly in the communities where they lived.

My own initial year of literacy work confirms for me the presence of a limitless degree of motivation.

This adds difficulties to literacy work .

The White House urged the colleges to view this as a model to become involved in literacy work in future years.

worker

The literacy worker needs to look ahead: Will this be useful?

The booklets that have been transcribed by literacy workers need not have a national or even citywide appeal.

Let the literacy workers be members of the community, not outsiders.

■ VERB

achieve

This system aimed to give those who achieved literacy access to further training courses.

The two main tasks of acquiring oral/aural competence and achieving basic literacy are dealt with in the course's two parallel streams.

improve

He has set up the Starbucks Foundation to help improve literacy rates.

promote

But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary.

teach

One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers.

Many ideas for teaching aspects of literacy are linked to a wide range of science contexts.

As well as teaching basic literacy skills the unit also teaches maths and numeracy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Literacy levels amongst girls very quickly overtook those of boys.

special classes in basic skills such as literacy and numeracy

The program is designed to promote literacy in the community.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But literacy and the written word do have a part to play.

Even less has there been evidence of any real correlation of objectivity itself with literacy practice.

He proposed a technology literacy program to integrate computers into classrooms.

Others were with the resource specialist working on literacy materials geared specifically to their varying reading levels.

Questions of literacy , in Socrates' belief, must at length be judged as matters of morality.

There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy .

There is, however, considerable concern amongst employers about basic skills including literacy and numeracy.

Those activities could include attending a literacy program, doing volunteer work, or attending parenting classes.

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