Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9TDhIV27601; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:43:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:43:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <46A99C21.72B089F7.0AB94E44@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:771] functional context, decoding, etc X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1573 Lines: 14 Andrea, Tom, George, et al: When someone goes to washington DC for the first time and decides to take the subway, the person has what I would call a unique literacy experience. Unless the person has prior experience using a fare card, subway map, etc. The person will ask for help, regardless of his or her education. I know that there are a few of us that will navigate the literate subway world w/o problems. However, for most of us, we will need some help understanding the instructions to purchase a fare card, etc. I call this a literacy behavior. A person may have low literacy skills according to the NALS, or TABE, etc. However, such a person might have the literacy behavior that allows them to purchase the fare card. My question is: Is acquiring this particular literacy behavior a literacy outcome that we hope for our students to acquire? If so, how do we measure this? I can only measure this by knowing that some one is able to do it. I know that acquiring this literacy behavior may not be very important, since, most can ultimately acquire it in a short period with the help of others. However, there are multiple literacy behaviors that exist in different communities that people may participate in. I consider navigating the health care system, or having the ability to seek protection from domestic violence as very important ones. Also, I consider understanding policy, or participating somehow in a civic process as literacy behaviors. However, I ain't sure of how to measure this. Andres -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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