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Barton, David; Hamilton, Mary – 1998
This book describes a study of the uses of reading and writing in Lancaster, England, in the 1990s. It offers a detailed, specific description of literacy practices in one local community at one point in time. The book is designed to contribute to the theoretical understanding of literacy by linking literacy to a more general understanding of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Case Studies
Stevenson, Colin – 1985
The study described in this book was designed to create an overall picture of the type of student found at a school for educationally substandard army recruits in England, to establish the causes of the student's educational backwardness and relate these to linguistic performance, and to compare the effectiveness of the approaches and methods used…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy
Jones, H. A.; Charnley, A. H. – 1977
This book details research from January 1975 to December 1977 on the three-year BBC Adult Literacy Project and the government-funded Adult Literacy Resource Agency (ALRA). Chapter 1 sets forth these three research objectives: effectiveness of the campaign (including the broadcast element) in reaching and holding the adult sub-literate,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Maybin, Janet, Ed. – 1994
Readings on language and literacy within their social context include: "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages" (Bronislaw Malinowski); "Toward Ethnographies of Communication" (Dell Hymes); "Language as Social Semiotic" (M. A. K. Halliday); "Language and Ideology" (V. N. Volosinov); "Family…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cultural Context, Ethnography, Family Influence
