Describes the literacy training provided by the Armed Forces as both minimal and dehumanizing, with an overriding emphasis on training young, disadvantaged recruits to perform necessary tasks without any thought or analysis. (GC)

Points out that reading has to be made something that those learning to read want to do, now, and in the future, and argues that people who can read should help those who cannot. (EL)

Discussion at the symposium, held August 15-25, 1973 in West Berlin, was focused mainly on African experiences related to adult functional literacy. (MS)

Outlines for the librarian ways which the resources of the public library can be put to good use in literacy programmes. (MF)

Reports on the National Workshop on the Functional Literacy Project under the Integrated Programme of Farmers' Training and Functional Literacy, held at New Delhi from January 11 to 19, 1971. (EB)

As a result of a pilot project (in Rio de Janeiro) of functional literacy for adolescents and adults by television, 90 percent of the students in experimental tele-classes" became literate with 36 broadcasts of 20 minutes each, distributed over three months three times each week, supported by 50 minutes of discussion and other activities…

Children of foreign families should receive instruction in their native language first. Only in this way can they ever make the transfer to English. (CK)

Comments on literacy data gathered from several surveys and questions whether students are developing sufficient literacy skills. (AEA)

Functional literacy has been emphasized over traditional literacy in recent decades. Although functional literacy is desirable if it is organized with success and effectiveness, it rarely is implemented this way. More attention to traditional literacy is thus warranted. (SK)

The entire deaf prison population in the state of Texas formed the basis for this research. The linguistic skills of prison inmates were assessed using the following measures: (1) Kannapell's categories of bilingualism, (2) adaptation of the diagnostic criteria for Primitive Personality Disorder, (3) reading scores on the Test of Adult Basic…

This discussion paper synthesizes the individual investigations of nonformal education activities in the following four groups of programs in Ethiopia: rural/traditional, urban/modern, literacy, and miscellaneous (programs which do not fit into other classifications). The synthesis of the investigations into a country-wide study was undertaken to…

THE ADULT BASIC READING INVENTORY IS DESIGNED FOR USE WITH ANY AGE GROUP FOR IMMEDIATE IDENTIFICATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S CAPABILITY TO LEARN TO READ. POTENTIAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ARE ESTABLISHED TO AID IN THE PROPER ASSESSMENT OF READING MATERIALS FOR USE IN BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP INSTRUCTION. THE MANUAL OFFERS DIRECTIONS FOR TEST…

This report highlights the main features of each talk and discussion given at the seminar and pinpoints conclusions reached. The seminar made a number of recommendations, which include: (1) that Unesco place greater emphasis in all future functional literacy projects on the importance of literacy as a factor in the civic and political education of…