Literacy
Ability to read and write / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the article on reading, see Reading. For the article on writing, see Writing. For the academic journal, see Literacy (journal).
"Illiterate" redirects here. For the 2013 film, see Illiterate (film).
"Reading and writing" redirects here. For the journal, see Reading and Writing (journal).
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural aspects of reading and writing[1] and functional literacy.[2][3]
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