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#38012. bloomsby
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How is 'functional literacy' defined in terms of reading-age in the U.S. and the U.K.?
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bloomsby
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Many defintions I've found in web-searches are circular, along the lines of 'literacy at the level needed to function in one's working and social envirnonment'. Obviously, in _real terms_ some environments require very little reading (say, refuse collector) while others require a much higher level - for example, high school teacher. Often one reads statements of the kind 'x% of 16-year-olds in the UK are functionally illiterate'. In such contexts, what kind of reading-age do the kids need to count as functionally literate, or does it mean 'insufficient to function in school at age 16' or what? What I'm looking for is a defintion that isn't circular but is given in terms of reading-age. I hope this makes things clearer.
Aug 31 03, 11:39 PM
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