Literacy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 10/05/2019

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00:03:11 1 History
00:03:21 1.1 Prehistoric and ancient literacy
00:03:31 1.1.1 Origins of literacy
00:07:15 1.1.2 Origins of the alphabet
00:14:14 1.2 Classical and post-classical literacy
00:19:21 2 Modern literacy
00:19:30 2.1 Spread of literacy since the mid-twentieth century
00:20:52 2.2 Regional disparities
00:22:56 2.3 Gender disparities
00:26:19 2.3.1 Challenges of increasing female literacy
00:28:18 2.3.2 Gender gap for boys in developed countries
00:29:21 2.4 Socioeconomic impact
00:30:58 2.5 Health impacts
00:32:22 2.6 Economic impacts
00:33:37 2.7 Literacy promotion efforts
00:36:56 2.8 Literacy as a development indicator
00:38:12 2.9 Literacy as a human right
00:39:42 3 U.S. public library efforts to promote literacy
00:41:37 3.1 30 April: Dia! Diversity in Action
00:42:33 3.2 READ/Orange County
00:44:01 3.3 BoulderReads!
00:45:45 3.4 Hillsborough Literacy Council (HLC)
00:47:17 4 Broader and complementary definitions
00:51:50 5 Teaching literacy
00:56:27 5.1 Post-conflict settings
00:57:47 5.2 Teaching non-native users
01:02:38 5.3 Teaching migrant/immigrant language users
01:08:12 5.4 Importance
01:10:03 6 By continent
01:10:13 6.1 Europe
01:10:22 6.1.1 United Kingdom
01:11:07 6.1.1.1 England
01:13:06 6.1.1.2 Wales
01:14:57 6.1.2 Continental Europe
01:18:40 6.2 North America
01:18:49 6.2.1 Canada
01:18:57 6.2.1.1 Colonialism (1600s–1762)
01:22:03 6.2.1.2 From the British Conquest (1763) to Confederation (1867)
01:25:00 6.2.1.3 1868–1986
01:29:00 6.2.1.4 Direct systematic measures of literacy in Canada, 1987 to present
01:33:09 6.2.2 Mexico
01:34:59 6.2.3 United States
01:36:46 6.2.3.1 Cultural and westernized literacy for Native Americans in the United States
01:38:40 6.3 South America
01:39:30 6.4 Africa
01:41:32 6.4.1 Algeria
01:41:52 6.4.2 Botswana
01:42:12 6.4.3 Burkina Faso
01:42:55 6.4.4 Egypt
01:43:31 6.4.5 Djibouti
01:43:46 6.4.6 Eritrea
01:44:04 6.4.7 Ethiopia
01:44:47 6.4.8 Guinea
01:45:48 6.4.9 Kenya
01:46:37 6.4.10 Mali
01:48:05 6.4.11 Mauritius
01:49:42 6.4.12 Niger
01:51:40 6.4.13 Senegal
01:52:47 6.4.14 Somalia
01:53:18 6.4.15 Sierra Leone
01:54:06 6.4.16 Uganda
01:54:20 6.4.17 Zimbabwe
01:54:38 6.5 Asia
01:54:47 6.5.1 Afghanistan
01:55:42 6.5.2 China
01:56:43 6.5.3 India
01:57:18 6.5.4 Laos
01:59:23 6.5.5 Pakistan
02:04:27 6.5.6 Philippines
02:06:59 6.5.7 Sri Lanka
02:08:01 6.6 Oceania
02:08:10 6.6.1 Australia
02:09:12 7 See also
02:09:42 8 Sources



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Dictionaries traditionally define literacy as the ability to read and write. In the modern world, this is one way of interpreting literacy. One more broad interpretation sees literacy as knowledge and competence in a specific area. The concept of literacy has evolved in meaning. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding across OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts. A person who travels and resides in a foreign country but is unable to read or write in the language of the host country would be regarded by the locals as illiterate.
The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills which begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and which culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language-underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all o ...