TY - BOOK ID - 1910219 TI - Functional literacy PY - 1994 VL - 1 SN - 9027217920 9027217912 1556193165 1556193173 9786613222381 1283222388 902728301X 9789027283016 9789027217912 9789027217929 9781556193163 9781556193170 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia :John Benjamins Pub. Co. DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of culture KW - Functional literacy KW - Language and languages KW - Alphabétisation fonctionnelle KW - Langage et langues KW - Philosophy KW - Social aspects KW - Study and teaching KW - Philosophie KW - Aspect social KW - Etude et enseignement KW - Functional literacy -- Philosophy. KW - Functional literacy -- Social aspects. KW - Language and languages -- Study and teaching. KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Education, Special Topics KW - Philosophy. KW - Social aspects. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Alphabétisation fonctionnelle KW - Adult literacy KW - Functional illiteracy KW - Foreign language study KW - Life skills KW - Literacy KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Language and languages Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1910219 AB - The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The first part deals with theoretical questions related to the definition and the modeling of the construct of functional literacy. The second part goes into the notion of literacy development. Both societal and individual aspects of literacy development are taken into account. In the next two parts the actual achievement of literacy in various regions of the world is dealt wi ER -