Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes

Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes

Author: Helen Abadzi

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0821354930

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Despite an estimated one billion adults who are illiterate in the world, adult literacy programmes in developing countries remain severely underfunded and with limited outcomes. Efforts to improve this situation have tended to focus on institutional and social issues, rather than research into cognitive and memory functions and studies regarding learning techniques. This publication explores cognitive research findings and applies this to the design of adult literacy programmes and acquisition of literacy by unschooled adults in lower-income countries.


What We Know about Acquisition of Adult Literacy

What We Know about Acquisition of Adult Literacy

Author: Helen Abadzi

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780821328620

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World Bank Discussion Paper 245. Experience shows that literacy levels are much more easily raised in children than in adults. Literacy is not easily transmitted to adults, and skills of neoliterates are not stable--a problem which can lower the ef