Walker, Wallace 1984

Walker, Wallace 1984

Reference
	Walker, Wallace R. 1984. "The distinction between literate and letterate." READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature.

Summary
	Postman and Weingartner state that schools are not really interested in literacy at all. Are concerned with teaching reading. Learning to correlate spoken words with the symbols that represent them on a page does not ensure that one will understand the operations of the written or spoken language. Literacy means a high degree of competence in
	analyzing linguistic propositions evaluating them, and correlating them with reality.
	Postman and Weingartner call anything less than this "letteracy." According to definition, one may be able to read and still be hopelessly preliterate. Literacy cannot be defined as solely the attainment of decoding skills.

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Bibliography module: Walker, Wallace 1984
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): W
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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