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Brumfit, Christopher – 1992
This article discusses key issues of literacy that are important to both teachers and learners for understanding, and summarizes the function of literacy in three different groups: primary education, adult education, and communities with unwritten languages. The article investigates the scope of literacy, showing how this concept may be defined…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Standards, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries