Crossword clues for literacy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Literacy \Lit"er*a*cy\ (l[i^]t"[~e]r*[.a]*s[y^]), n. State of being literate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1883, formed in English from literate + -cy. Illiteracy, however, dates back to 17c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the ability to read 2 understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)
WordNet
n. the ability to read and write [ant: illiteracy]
Wikipedia
Literacy is traditionally understood as the ability to read, write, and use arithmetic. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding in OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts.
The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds ( phonology), spelling patterns ( orthography), word meaning ( semantics), grammar ( syntax) and patterns of word formation ( morphology), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension.
Once these skills are acquired, the reader can attain full language literacy, which includes the abilities to apply to printed material critical analysis, inference and synthesis; to write with accuracy and coherence; and to use information and insights from text as the basis for informed decisions and creative thought. The inability to do so is called illiteracy or analphabetism.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society".
Literacy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published thrice annually by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the United Kingdom Literacy Association. The journal was established in 1967 as Reading and obtained its current name in 2004. It covers research on the study and development of literacy, including topics such as phonics, phonology, morphology, and language. The editors-in-chief are Cathy Burnett ( Sheffield Hallam University) and Julia Davies ( University of Sheffield).
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.400, ranking it 91st out of 162 journals in the category "Linguistics" and 150th out of 206 journals in the category "Education & Educational Research".
Usage examples of "literacy".
The acquisition of such literacy was arduous and was aided by encyclopaedic and other lists.
When they signed documents, they often added the names and positions of their fathers, which confirms that they were usually the sons of city governors, temple administrators, army officers, or priests: literacy was confined to scribes and administrators.
Probably, much public art was taken for granted: the mythological stories were well known, literacy was low, and so sculpture in particular would be a form of ever-present, pre-Herodotus history.
On the other hand, a religion of the book almost by definition promoted literacy and a respect for scholarship that stood them in good stead.
The existence of graffiti, and the fact that more or less average soldiers were able to write letters home, suggests that literacy extended well beyond senators and politicians.
In any case, to begin with, literacy may not have been seen as conferring the advantages that seem so obvious to us.
Finally, in considering the extent of literacy, we may note the wide range of backgrounds of Roman authors.
Rome, which affected learning and literacy, was the gradual disappearance of the scroll, in favour of the codex.
Cassiodorus also produced a book on spelling, which has generally been taken as proof that, in addition to the decline in Greek studies, there was at the same time a fall in Latin literacy as well.
It is likely that literacy reached these parts of the world with the arrival of Sanskrit.
The new project was very successful, encouraging literacy, and between 932 and 953 most of the existing literature was put into print.
Another was the rise of literacy and of speculative thought, as reflected in the new universities, Paris in particular.
He says that 33 per cent of boys of school age had a rudimentary literacy, 12 per cent of girls, and that overall about 23 per cent of the inhabitants of Venice were literate by 1587.
This literacy had an incalculable effect on the later fortunes of the Protestant north.
Though the growth of literacy represented considerable progress in a general sense, it also made it more difficult than ever for the Portuguese to keep to themselves the news of their momentous discoveries.