Worldwide Literacy

Summary:

There are big differences between the number of illiterates in developed countries and the so-called third world, and these also between men and women (who often have less access to the education). It is estimated that in 2000 there were about 90 million illiterate people, according to UNESCO.

Literacy worldwide:

The opacity data from certain governments do not support the detection and solution of the problem. Former countries of communism are doing greatest efforts in this field. Literacy is one of the indicators taken into account to calculate the progress of a country.

It is for the acquisition of literacy help the student to be as a person, and thus, to know yourself. An important way forward is to explore the various types of texts in a pleasurable way, highlighting the practice of awakening the interest and attention of learners, developing imagination, expression

The grandeur of the process of teaching can not be understood only as a way to teach but to learn and evolve, thus allowing an interpretation of interpretations of the world and understanding what is read. In this sense, literacy has an important role, driving the kids to the acquisition of oral language, reading and writing with enjoyment, that is, you feel happy to be in the classroom of ideas and the enjoyment of reading and writing. Opportunity situations in which children can interact in the process of knowledge construction, allowing its development and learning significantly, directing a healthy dialogue between child and book.

 Trends

The traditional trend by recognizing letters and associating each phoneme and its casing, come to decipher the words and phrases. Is the usual method of schools with children. Others, however, believe that adults with better use meaningful words to encourage them,

because the capacity of learning tends to be lower than that of children. Often the words

are based on actual objects or illustrations to clarify its meaning. Knowledge of the

environment, which is much greater than that of children, aid to progress more quickly.

An added problem is unknown when the student comes from another language and culture, as with the phenomenon of immigration. In this case it is advisable to help correlate what they learned with the original language. The new challenge is raised we are told to use new technologies to prevent the digital divide that can mean the Information Society.

Conclusion:

Words only have meaning in statements and texts that are meant to signify and situations. In this context, the language is not only the vocabulary list of words and sentences, is through dialogue that the communication happens. Are the subjects in natural interactions that give meaning to words only. Hence, literacy should not be understood as a capacity building related to perception, memory and training of sensory-motor skills, but as a process in which children have to solve problems in logic to come to understand how the writing in Portuguese is the language and thus can read and write independently.