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Direct linkElder, Catherine; Barber, Melissa; Staples, Margaret; Osborne, Richard H.; Clerehan, Rosemary; Buchbinder, Rachelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
Health literacy, defined as an individual's capacity to process health information in order to make appropriate health decisions, is the focus of increasing attention in medical fields due to growing awareness that suboptimal health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes. To explore this issue, a number of instruments, reported to have…
Descriptors: Health, Information Literacy, Adult Literacy, Medicine
Peer reviewedElder, Catherine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2000
Discusses some of the conceptual problems underlying distinctions between native and nonnative speaker, between foreign and second language learners, and the related difficulty of eliciting valid and reliable data about language background. Problems are illustrated with reference to a scheme developed in Australia involving the classification of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Admission, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
