Literacy | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy 00:03:11 1 History 00:03:21 1.1 Prehistoric and ancient literacy 00:03:31 1.1.1 Origins of literacy 00:07:15 1.1.2 Origins of the alphabet 00:14:14 1.2 Classical and post-classical literacy 00:19:21 2 Modern literacy 00:19:30 2.1 Spread of literacy since the mid-twentieth century 00:20:52 2.2 Regional disparities 00:22:56 2.3 Gender disparities 00:26:19 2.3.1 Challenges of increasing female literacy 00:28:18 2.3.2 Gender gap for boys in developed countries 00:29:21 2.4 Socioeconomic impact 00:30:58 2.5 Health impacts 00:32:22 2.6 Economic impacts 00:33:37 2.7 Literacy promotion efforts 00:36:56 2.8 Literacy as a development indicator 00:38:12 2.9 Literacy as a human right 00:39:42 3 U.S. public library efforts to promote literacy 00:41:37 3.1 30 April: Dia! Diversity in Action 00:42:33 3.2 READ/Orange County 00:44:01 3.3 BoulderReads! 00:45:45 3.4 Hillsborough Literacy Council (HLC) 00:47:17 4 Broader and complementary definitions 00:51:50 5 Teaching literacy 00:56:27 5.1 Post-conflict settings 00:57:47 5.2 Teaching non-native users 01:02:38 5.3 Teaching migrant/immigrant language users 01:08:12 5.4 Importance 01:10:03 6 By continent 01:10:13 6.1 Europe 01:10:22 6.1.1 United Kingdom 01:11:07 6.1.1.1 England 01:13:06 6.1.1.2 Wales 01:14:57 6.1.2 Continental Europe 01:18:40 6.2 North America 01:18:49 6.2.1 Canada 01:18:57 6.2.1.1 Colonialism (1600s–1762) 01:22:03 6.2.1.2 From the British Conquest (1763) to Confederation (1867) 01:25:00 6.2.1.3 1868–1986 01:29:00 6.2.1.4 Direct systematic measures of literacy in Canada, 1987 to present 01:33:09 6.2.2 Mexico 01:34:59 6.2.3 United States 01:36:46 6.2.3.1 Cultural and westernized literacy for Native Americans in the United States 01:38:40 6.3 South America 01:39:30 6.4 Africa 01:41:32 6.4.1 Algeria 01:41:52 6.4.2 Botswana 01:42:12 6.4.3 Burkina Faso 01:42:55 6.4.4 Egypt 01:43:31 6.4.5 Djibouti 01:43:46 6.4.6 Eritrea 01:44:04 6.4.7 Ethiopia 01:44:47 6.4.8 Guinea 01:45:48 6.4.9 Kenya 01:46:37 6.4.10 Mali 01:48:05 6.4.11 Mauritius 01:49:42 6.4.12 Niger 01:51:40 6.4.13 Senegal 01:52:47 6.4.14 Somalia 01:53:18 6.4.15 Sierra Leone 01:54:06 6.4.16 Uganda 01:54:20 6.4.17 Zimbabwe 01:54:38 6.5 Asia 01:54:47 6.5.1 Afghanistan 01:55:42 6.5.2 China 01:56:43 6.5.3 India 01:57:18 6.5.4 Laos 01:59:23 6.5.5 Pakistan 02:04:27 6.5.6 Philippines 02:06:59 6.5.7 Sri Lanka 02:08:01 6.6 Oceania 02:08:10 6.6.1 Australia 02:09:12 7 See also 02:09:42 8 Sources Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7674605490631924 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= Dictionaries traditionally define literacy as the ability to read and write. In the modern world, this is one way of interpreting literacy. One more broad interpretation sees literacy as knowledge and competence in a specific area. The concept of literacy has evolved in meaning. 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, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding across OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts. A person who travels and resides in a foreign country but is unable to read or write in the language of the host country would be regarded by the locals as illiterate. The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills which begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and which 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 o ...