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Adult Literacy Development*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall
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The 1980s experienced a worldwide increase in interest in adult literacy, culminating in the designation of 1990 as International Literacy Year by the United Nations, and the setting of a variety of international and national goals for the reduction or eradication of adult illiteracy by the year 2000. While attention to adult illiteracy resembles a pendulum, a number of factors have contributed to the current heightened awareness of this problem as well as interest in working toward its solution.

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Foundations of Literacy
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 12 , March 1991 , pp. 86 - 104
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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