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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
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Marsh, George E., II; And Others – Urban Review, 1990
Tests of a sample of 106 welfare recipients in Arkansas found that 53 percent were literate, contrary to the federal assumption that most recipients are illiterate. Concludes that specific job training and specific occupational literacy, rather than general literacy, programs would best meet the needs of the unemployed. (DM)
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Illiteracy, Interviews, Literacy