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Literacy in South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

R. N. Srivastava
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Recent literature on literacy reveals that the ways people perceive and experience its nature and relevance differ fundamentally across time as well as across different societies (cf., Heath 1980, Graff 1982, Pattison 1982, Raymond 1982). It has been argued by scholars that the way societies view literacy and its benefits is circumscribed mainly by the characteristics of their socio-economic types (cf., Cressy 1980, Slaughter 1982, Neustupný forthcoming). Literacy, thus, by no means is a unified concept. What adds to the baffling complexity of literacy education is that it means different things to different people. Consequently, linguists, educationists, policymakers, etc. differ widely in their approach towards defining the form, function, and use of literacy.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 4 , March 1983 , pp. 93 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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