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  • ===Literacy and language acquisition=== *Tarone, E., M. Bigelow & K. Hansen (2009). ''Literacy and Second Language Oracy''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 97801944
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  • ...ganization]] (UNESCO) and other international organizations consider basic literacy provisions to be a basic [[human right]] (Article 26 of the [[Universal Dec ...ay [http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-01-08-adult-literacy_N.htm Literacy Study: 1 in 7 U.S. adults are unable to read this story].</ref>
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  • #REDIRECT [[Quantitative literacy]]
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  • {{r|Literacy}} {{r|Quantitative Literacy}}
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  • #REDIRECT [[Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition]]
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  • *[http://www.leslla.org/default.htm Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition for Adults] - official website.
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  • ...>An heir of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and television producer, who manages her literacy legacy for fellow heirs
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  • ...o understand "He completed the journey with grim determination", cultural literacy is necessary to understand "He completed the journey like [[Sherman]] march | title = Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
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  • ...y, when foreign literate cultures are taking notice of Ireland, and native literacy is beginning to develop.
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  • ...research concerns second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, literacy and neurolinguistics.
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  • In [[health care delivery]], '''health literacy''' is the "degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process Markers of possible impaired health literacy are self-report of:<ref name="pmid20606152">{{cite journal| author=Powers B
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  • ...atio for primary, secondary and tertiary schooling, weighted to give adult literacy more significance. The life expectancy component is calculated using a mini
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  • ...and simultaneously President of the Riordan Foundation (2000 - 2006) for literacy and youth leadership programming and directed the Leadership Suite at [[Uni
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  • {{r|Literacy}}
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  • ...cation and Continuous Learning, [[intellectual freedom]], and 21st Century Literacy; Advisory Committee, Congressional Internet Caucus
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  • * [[Health literacy]]
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  • ==Literacy and language acquisition== ...ually being identified as a key factor in language processing skills, i.e. literacy positively and negatively affects how well people interpret grammatical pat
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  • {{r|Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition}}
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  • {{r|Literacy}}
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  • {{r|Literacy}}
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  • .... AD 750 until ca. 1100 and is demarcated at the beginning by the onset of literacy and at the end by the further gradual development of the language into [[Mi
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  • ...nsonant Shift]]. The period is demarcated at the beginning by the onset of literacy and historical record in that language around AD 700, and at the end (ca. A
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Quantitative literacy]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • {{r|Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition}}
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  • {{r|Quantitative literacy}}
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  • ...ve in the Immigrant Restriction League in Massachusetts. He advocated for literacy tests as a means of limiting immigrants and types of immigrants coming into
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  • * Ong, Walter J. ''Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word''. New York: Routledge, 2002.
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  • |Literacy Day Vanuatu 2005.jpg|People in Port Vila, [[Vanuatu]] express their languag ...-Vanuatu- vernacular languages literacy materials.jpg|Vernacular languages literacy materials used on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.
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  • ...rises]], coauthor of [[Sarbanes Oxley Act]]; bipartisan [[House Financial Literacy and Economic Education Caucus]]; Congressional Internet Caucus
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  • {{r|Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition}}
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  • *Gipe J (2002). ''Multiple Paths to Literacy''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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  • ...A. Brady and Donald Shankweiler (eds.). (1991) ''Phonological Processes in Literacy: A Tribute To Isabelle Y. Liberman''. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1991 ...nkweiler, D., Camp, L., Blachman, B., & Werfelman, M. (1979). Steps toward literacy: A linguistic approach. In Resnick L., Weaver, P.(eds.): ''Theory and pra
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  • ! Literacy rate
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  • ...s of acquisition (i.e. is what is acquired late lost earliest)? How does [[literacy]], social background or the age of first learning affect attrition, if at a
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  • {{r|National Jewish Coalition for Literacy}}
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  • ...ive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy that fosters deep understanding of the most complex issues about the past a
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  • {{rpl|Literacy}}
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  • {{r|Quantitative literacy}}
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  • *bipartisan [[House Financial Literacy and Economic Education Caucus]]
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  • ...k |last=Ong |first=Walter J. |authorlink= Walter J. Ong |title=Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word |year=1982 |location=London |publisher=[[Me * {{cite journal |title=Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind: Slow reading counterbalances Web skimming |author=[[Mark
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  • '''Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition''' (LESLLA) is a forum for [[research]] into the development of
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  • *Co-founder, with Rep. [[Judy Biggert]], of the bipartisan [[House Financial Literacy and Economic Education Caucus]]
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  • ...lism]], [[creolistics]], [[applied linguistics]], [[language planning]], [[literacy]] studies and [[language and gender]]. It also overlaps with other fields s
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  • ...i, (2002). [http://www.songsforteaching.com/lb/literacymusic.htm|Promoting Literacy Through Music].
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  • * Torrance, Richard. "Literacy and Literature in Osaka, 1890-1940," ''The Journal of Japanese Studies'' 31
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  • *[[National Jewish Coalition for Literacy]]
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  • .... Slashdot is generally targeted at people with a high degree of computer literacy, especially computer professionals.
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  • ...ingdom]]. The Irish form asked for the religion of the respondents, their literacy level (whether they could read or write), and their level of competency in
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  • ...eminent scholarship, well before the arrival of European languages and the literacy drives of [[Christianity|Christian]] and other missionaries, aimed at stamp
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  • Due to low literacy levels, the majority of media used in the country is [[radio]]. The majorit
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  • In [[education]] and [[literacy]], '''quantitative literacy''' (also called '''numeracy''') is "the knowledge and skills required to ap ...lt Literacy in America: a first look at the findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey], (NCES 93275). U.S. Department of Education.</ref>
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  • ...concerns [[second language acquisition]] (SLA), [[bilingual education]], [[literacy]] and [[neurolinguistics]]. His work seeks to inform policy on bilingual ed
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  • * Seymour, P. H. K.; Aro, M.; & Erskine, J. M. (2003). Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies. ''British Journal of Psychology'', ' * Stubbs, Michael. (1980). ''Language and literacy: The sociolinguistics of reading and writing''. London: Routledge & Kegan P
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  • Dialect standardisation can be explained as the result of [[literacy]], and access to standardised written materials. By contrast, because regio
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  • ...us on written language therefore ignores linguistic development prior to [[literacy]]. Another reason is that [[writing system]]s typically ignore many feature
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  • *Tarone, E., M. Bigelow & K. Hansen (2009). ''Literacy and Second Language Oracy''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 97801944
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  • ...ing to [[electric guitar|electric]], adding a back-up band, and bringing [[literacy]] to [[rock and roll|rock'n'roll]]. In the late sixties, after a lay-off d
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  • ...rary/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iv.html Côte d'Ivoire]'.</ref> [[Literacy]] stands at about half the population, and the majority of Ivoirians are ei
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  • .... Augustyn, Jr. "Together and Apart: Lithuanian and Polish Immigrant Adult Literacy Programs in Chicago, 1890-1930." ''Polish American Studies'' 2000 57(2): 31
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  • ...ent<ref name="unicefexplain">of 14 and 15-year-olds; based on 3 surveys on literacy and ability in mathematics, science, and reading; ranking is based on numbe
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  • ...the Danish threat to his kingdom of [[Wessex]], was determined to improve literacy among his people. He undertook some translations of then-popular classics
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  • ...ed to say that the President was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote...People who could not even spell the word 'vot | title = Former Congressman Tom Tancredo Says Obama Won Because There is No Literacy Test Before Voting
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  • ...d organizer for the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] teaching literacy and voter education to sharecroppers. Adams was an active participant in [
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  • I have no experience writing for kids but for adults with low literacy levels, which follows the very same principles of limiting vocabulary and s
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  • ...tely the size of the U.S. state of [[New Mexico (U.S. state)|New Mexico]]. Literacy is approximately 90 percent. <ref name=CIAfactVN>{{citation
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  • ...on a literate population, but are also thought to help stimulate increased literacy.
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  • ...as cataloging, collection development for a diverse community, information literacy, community standards, public services-focused librarianship, serving a dive *[[Information literacy]]
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  • Continuing to strengthen agricultural literacy among consumers through Ag in the Classroom projects. Mini-grants for Farm Bureau groups to increase ag literacy efforts in their communities.
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  • ...us on written language therefore ignores linguistic development prior to [[literacy]]. Another reason is that [[writing system]]s typically ignore many feature
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  • The literacy rate is 74.8%, the female literacy rate 67.1%.
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  • ...he [[Hawaiian bible|bible]] was translated into Hawai{{Okina}}ian in 1839, literacy on the Hawai{{Okina}}ian islands soared. Hawai{{Okina}}i quickly became the
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  • ...ing, for a large part of the population, meant instruction only in basic [[literacy]] and elementary [[arithmetic]] skills in tuition-based schools which were
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  • ...pt was introduced by the [[Soviet Union]] as part of an effort to increase literacy and distance the, at that time, largely illiterate population, from the Isl ...c language]]. The literacy campaign was successful, with near universal [[literacy]] being achieved by the 1950s.
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  • ...kforce Investment Act, displaced homemakers, adult basic education (family literacy), rehabilitation, professional development, and training programs from immi
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  • ===Health literacy=== [[Health literacy]] can be assessed.
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  • ...&pmid=16174840}}</ref> The NNT has been proposed to improve [[quantitative literacy]].<ref name="pmid3374545"/> The calculations are derived from the results o
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  • ...at all levels was closely linked to the [[church]]. The teaching of basic literacy skills was undertaken on a wide front so that the individual [[Christian]] ...vy emphasis was put on education which made the US have one of the highest literacy rates at the time.
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  • ...|America]], only a small percentage of the population in any country was [[literacy|literate]] before the [[Industrial Revolution]]. ...ityguide.org/volunteer/fifteen/reading-books.htm Jamie Littlefield].</ref> Literacy rates in the USA are also more highly correlated to weekly earnings than IQ
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  • ...s researchers become more interested in how [[language acquisition]] and [[literacy]] are related, how people process [[written language]] and how [[computers]
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  • ...y, the availability of printed materials led to a continuing rise in the [[literacy]] level, revolutionizing education. ...previous century) than expected, but also a significantly higher level of literacy than has often been estimated.
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  • ...h greater freedom from traditional restraints. In the sixteenth century as literacy spread, as more and different types of people began to compose poetry, a no
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  • ...anguage acquisition]] specialists, and educators concerned with developing literacy.<ref>See for example Frost & Katz (1992); Young-Scholten (2002); Connor et
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  • * Mclean, Lorna. "'To Become Part of Us': Ethnicity, Race, Literacy and the Canadian Immigration Act of 1919". ''Canadian Ethnic Studies'' 2004
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  • ...ulish and the [[Calendar of Coligny]]). Furthermore, Caesar attests to the literacy of the Gauls, but also wrote that their priests, the [[druids]], forbade us ...to record short inscriptions (largely personal names), more sophisticated literacy was not introduced to Celtic areas not conquered by Rome until the advent o
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  • ...equently translated into other languages soon after their publication, and literacy rates around the world are at historic highs, there is a growing sense of a ...other words, the future of literature may have less to do with traditional literacy and letters than anyone can predict.
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  • ...disabilities: [[Color Blindness|color blindness]], motion impairments, low literacy, and so forth.
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  • ...ettling of Schools'' in that very same year, leading to widespread minimal literacy. At the university level, Scotland boasted 5 universities. Scots also went
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  • *[[Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus]]
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  • ...and illiteracy", because its volunteers aim to continue spreading public [[literacy]] and appreciation for the literary heritage just as [[public library|publi
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  • ...required that he know how to read. Thus, early on, [[education]] in basic literacy skills became an important part of the Christian life for Protestants. In t
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  • ...skrit was a prestige dialect that was used as a marker of social class and literacy in [[Vedic period|post-Vedic]] India.
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  • ...etworks in schools; all teachers to get enhanced training on mental health literacy |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mental-health-schools-suppor
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  • ...re|cultural]] or [[education]]al background: for example, people who are [[literacy|literate]] in a [[writing system]] which demarcates units of language by sp
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  • ...e account of his life, as well as the note that exonerated Ann Melton. His literacy is highly unusual given his station in life, and the incredible poverty of
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  • ...ney on footwear, and Kyoto people on fine clothes. <ref>Richard Torrance, "Literacy and Literature in Osaka, 1890-1940," ''The Journal of Japanese Studies'' 31
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  • ...than India's, though India had fewer famines than China. China had higher literacy, basic educational, and life expectancy rates than India, while India had a ...sistent series for Latin American real incomes, life expectancy, and adult literacy over the 20th century reveal that living standards rose most rapidly betwee
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  • ===Nat Turner, anti-literacy laws===
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  • ...equently translated into other languages soon after their publication, and literacy rates around the world are at historic highs, there is a growing sense of a ...other words, the future of literature may have less to do with traditional literacy and letters than anyone can predict.
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  • ...nerations of American schoolchildren used these readers to acquire basic [[literacy]] skills and to imbibe the moral lessons they taught. ...ach had its origins during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] when literacy was promoted as a means of enabling people to read the Bible. Following the
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  • ...if they wanted, attend evening classes on subjects ranging civics to basic literacy. Skilled courses such as motor repair, cooking, and baking were popular; L
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  • [[Television]] is unique in the history of media; it does not require literacy, mobility, or great expense, and it brings a uniform set of images into eve
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  • ...and Accurate Credit Transactions Act authored by Enzi regarding financial literacy and identity theft that will have a profound positive effect on many Americ
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  • ...en accepted students with no college education; some schools required only literacy and others did not even require that.
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  • ===Literacy=== In 2003 the estimated rates of [[Literacy|literacy]] (defined by reference to those of age 15 and over can read and write) in
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  • ...act that she lived in the years before the printing press and widespread [[literacy]], and was also young, female, and not of [[nobility|noble]] class.
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  • ...na]]. Library instruction is closely related to the study of [[information literacy]]. ...ation of outreach services and reading-enhancement services (such as adult literacy and children's programming).
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  • .../ref> pioneered and published by the United Nations adds such measures as literacy and life expectancy, and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
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  • ...ort 2009'', (summary)]</ref> by the United Nations adds such measures as literacy and life expectancy, and the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
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  • ...Department's principal advisors and spokespersons in the area of financial literacy and education.
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  • ...all-India average of 933:1,000. Kochi's literacy rate is 94.3%. The female literacy rate lags that of males by 1.1%, amongst the lowest such gaps in India.
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  • * Henry H. Bauer. (1994) Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method. University of Illinois Press. ISBN02
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  • #the so-called "Old" period, which extends from the earliest beginnings of literacy and records (ca. AD 700) until ca. AD 1100. Reconstructions of German-speci
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  • ...ref name="Census-literacy">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2001, Data on Literacy |work=Census of India |url=http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/India
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  • ...ref name="Schieffelin 2000">Bambi B. Schieffelin. 2000. Introducing Kaluli Literacy: A Chronology of Influences. In Regimes of Language. P. Kroskrity, ed. Pp.
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  • ...Middle East Partnership Initiative. Funds went, in large part, to support literacy projects, election monitoring, training for civil society, and the improvem
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  • * [[Cultural literacy]] * [[Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition]]
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  • * Stephen Penn, "Literacy and literary production", in: Steve Ellis ''Chaucer An Oxford Guide'' (2005
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  • ...Department's principal advisors and spokespersons in the area of financial literacy and education.
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  • ...everyone. High school and junior college students can gain the information literacy skills which are so critical for the knowledge age. ...ed the written [[word]] to be printed and distributed, thereby extending [[literacy]] to the population at large. Moving from [[vellum]] to paper made it possi
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  • ...s in the marriage register is widely considered a reliable proxy for basic literacy (Stephens, W B. ''Education in Britain 1750—1914''. Macmillan Press. 19
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  • ...appreciation for the English language and its literatures while promoting literacy - specifically the ability to write, read and think critically. Throughout
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  • ...habet as ''quốc ngữ'' (the national language), and as a tool for promoting literacy. The Confucian education system was compared unfavorably to the Japanese sy
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  • ...heavy comprehensive health booklets --- particularly in communities where literacy levels are known to be low or in known mobile populations --- and encourage ...ecessary infrastructure (electricity, connectivity, health worker computer literacy, etc) for a reliable electronic information system remains years away. In o
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  • Literacy rose sharply in the city, due to multiple causes including economic special
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  • ...America|United States]] in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, biology literacy has declined in parallel. Andrew Knoll, professor of natural history at Har
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  • Literacy and first language teaching in schools is traditionally prescriptive. Both
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  • ...le to the general public. This paved the way for huge leaps in the rate of literacy in industrialised nations and eased the spread of information during the [[
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  • ...ed to say that the President was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote...People who could not even spell the word 'vot | title = Former Congressman Tom Tancredo Says Obama Won Because There is No Literacy Test Before Voting
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  • ...m]] and moderate and profound [[mental retardation]] may have "undisclosed literacy", or the capacity for other symbolic communication, consistent with higher
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  • ...nunciation is an ongoing phenomenon in English and results from increasing literacy. Often it is a matter of sounding a consonant that has traditionally been s
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  • ...ountries), but they were not free and they generally imparted only basic [[literacy]]--the ability to read the [[Bible]], which was the original goal. Poor ch
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  • ...[[Mizoram]] and life expectancy (73 years) is among the highest in India. Literacy is 88% among females and 94% among males according to the 2001 census. Kera ...nsus, Kottayam District of Kerala is the first district to achieve highest literacy rate in the whole of India. [[Mahatma Gandhi University]], [[CMS College]]
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  • ...so that fewer births are needed to achieve desired completed family size.) Literacy is highly correlated with the use of contraceptives. Education helps people
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  • ...so that fewer births are needed to achieve desired completed family size.) Literacy is highly correlated with the use of contraceptives. Education helps people
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  • ...tio is 922 females to 1000 males, which is above the national average. Its literacy rate is 77.27% (86.2% males and 67.5% females).
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  • |title=Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? ...cessdate=2008-11-01 }}</ref><ref name=Keen/> Calling it "the great digital literacy debate", British-American entrepreneur and author [[Andrew Keen]] judged th
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  • ...e general [[Chinese culture]] was enhanced by widespread printing, growing literacy, and appreciation for the various arts.
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  • ...ost blacks from voting by various techniques, such as [[poll tax]]es and [[literacy test]]s. (These could be waived for whites by grandfather clauses, until th
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  • ...o me, a person who specializes in "translating" advanced topics into lower literacy levels. :-) &nbsp;&mdash;[[User:Stephen Ewen|Stephen Ewen]]&nbsp;[[User tal
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  • ...vement through political means. Evangelical activism might be expressed in literacy training, inner-city relief and food banks, adoption agencies, marriage cou
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  • * Belt-Beyan, Phyllis M. ''The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions: Family and Community Efforts in the Nineteenth Century.'' Praeg
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  • ...onal leadership; human services and counseling; and a program in language, literacy and specialized instruction. It is based at the Lincoln Park campus. The de
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  • Various methods have been proposed for improving [[quantitative literacy]]. For diagnosis, likelihood ratios<ref name="pmid18064524">{{cite journal
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  • ...965]] assured minority registration and voting rights. It suspended use of literacy or other voter-qualification tests that had sometimes served to keep Africa
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  • ...965]] assured minority registration and voting rights. It suspended use of literacy or other voter-qualification tests that had sometimes served to keep Africa
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  • ...letters by prominent white authors attesting to the character, honesty and literacy of the author. The result, according to literary critics, was "a black mes
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  • ...e in urban areas—a figure significantly higher than the world average. The literacy rate (88 percent) in Colombia is also well above the world average, and the
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  • ...come from rural areas, where they leave behind their families. The overall literacy rate of the city is above 86%, which is higher than the national average.<r
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  • ...bourgeois]] or [[middle class]] [[audience]]s and the spread of wealth and literacy and the growth of both [[mass media|mass]] and niche [[market (economics)|m
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  • The Reformation was a triumph of literacy and the new printing press. From 1517 onward religious pamphlets flooded Ge
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  • ...uring the thousand years that followed the sack of Rome is unrecorded. The literacy that had been a common feature of the Roman empire was seldom evident in
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  • The literacy rate is only 42.2% (56.2% of males and 28.1% of females), 14-year olds and
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  • ...told in words and pictures.<ref name="Torrance">Torrance, Richard. 2005. "Literacy and literature in Osaka, 1890-1940." Journal of Japanese Studies, 31(1):27-
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  • ...s and healthcare professionals often have difficulties with [[quantitative literacy|health numeracy]] and probabilistic reasoning.<ref name="pmid17712082">{{ci
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  • ...deral level. Applicants for U.S. [[citizenship]] have to pass an English [[literacy]] test. About 82% of the population speak nothing but English at home; the
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  • ...s and healthcare professionals often have difficulties with [[quantitative literacy|health numeracy]] and probabilistic reasoning.<ref name="pmid17712082">{{ci
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  • ...nd early 20th centuries, occasioned by technological developments, growing literacy, and a print culture, gave educated and Westernized colonial subjects acces
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  • ...ment indicator including nutrition, infant mortality, life expectancy, and literacy. Several factors encourage opium production, the greatest being economic: t
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  • ...tional Statistics |accessdate=2006-08-31}}</ref> The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humana.org/Article.asp?TxtID=223&S
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  • ...world-wide empire, boasted Europe's greatest number of cities and highest literacy rate, many world-class artists and generous patrons, religious tolerance, a
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  • ...ting, which holds schools and teachers accountable for pupil attainment in literacy and numeracy, has narrowed the curriculum, diminished opportunities for tea
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  • ...work of primary schools spread through the lowland areas, and by the 1930s literacy rates among the Lao Lum had increased considerably. But the upland areas, w
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  • ...ed for [[proselytism]] in May 2006, even though their project was to bring literacy to a poor neighborhood and some of the youth volunteers were Muslims. The M
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