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Coutinho, Colin – Online Submission, 2008
This paper will review the article entitled, "Shopping {For} Power: How Adult Literacy Learners Negotiate" [EJ756994] by authors Julie L. Ozanne, Natalie Ross Adkins, and Jennifer A. Sandlin. The authors argue that functional literacy in the United States is an important issue and needs to play a larger role in adult literacy programs.…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Adult Literacy, Interviews, Observation
Mora, Raúl A. – Online Submission, 2011
This keynote address will discuss the findings and implications stemming from a study of what literacy means for a group of 12 teachers and teacher educators. It will also discuss the factors that have caused the ongoing evolution of these ideas about literacy. Relying on the idea of a "permeable literacy continuum," which uses five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, English Instruction, Teacher Attitudes