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Janitors were fired because they can not read, one after-hours notice of their head with special clean-up instructions. Families have been evicted from his apartment, even in the coldest part of winter, when the apartment manager who wants the apartment to a rentPrice does not know the tenant can pay, falsely stated that the expulsion of lease is allowed if a child cries disturb other tenants. The tenant has sold nothing against illiteracy feared their faces. The use of drugs at risk for those who can not read the instructions on the bottle of medicine. Children who have medical emergencies to deal with situations of life and death where their parents are illiterate are lost because they can not read the street signs. These and hundreds ofsimilar "horror stories" occur around us every day - most of them without our knowledge.
Let me share one of the dirty little secret in America, you probably have not heard him say, widespread illiteracy and functional in the long, poverty, illiteracy, caused for example. If I tell you how bad it is, one can hardly believe it, I start giving you the reasons why it probably did not know.
Why we do not know the severity ofIlliteracy
First I define the functional illiteracy. Almost all Americans are able to read simple words, at least a few hundred who have learned in the first three grades of school. But if that's all anyone can read, you can not read well enough to be as good as they should in our increasingly complex society to obtain. They do not like to read and rarely do. As a result, there are at least 34 different types of severe physical, mental, emotional, medical and financial needconstantly bear - problems that we would consider a crisis, as and when it occurred to us. Many simple tasks we take for granted are beyond the capabilities of most illiterate. There are several definitions of functional illiteracy, but the best definition is that illiteracy is the inability to read and write well enough to a salary above the poverty level to maintain jobs. This is because employers a financial interest in the precision of the determination of an employee have the ability to read and write. EachEmployee must have a higher value, the profitability of the employer's share as the cost of their salaries. No other compilation of data literacy has a strong financial incentive for accuracy.
Secondly, illiteracy is almost always their inability to move well read and there are many methods of coping to gain life hiding his illiteracy. Community leaders from areas that have a large number of illiterate people who did this in the public domain. They fear that there will be peopleconsider their "enemies" - ammunition against them - people are racist and classist. The odds are good that many of your friends - without your knowledge - is functionally illiterate.
Thirdly, there is some natural separation of readers and not readers. Because of lower incomes for families in which one or both adults are illiterate, live in affordable housing, which are separated by more expensive homes through zoning laws. There is also a certain level ofSegregation in the workplace for job functions and in their spare time to reading skills.
Fourth, most families with low income workers have more than one adult. If a worker is literate adults in the family, the adults take to the family above the poverty line. If neither is well-read adult of the family, the family is very likely in poverty.
Fifth, get the most low-income families, the financial support of government agencies, friends,Charities and relatives in other households.
Sixth, there are four reasons why you do not know, information about literacy in the media: (1) the results of a study of literacy can not have appeared in media, (2) you have not seen the media reports on the literacy rate , (3) Have you seen the media and do not believe them or forget, or (4) They saw that the inaccurate reports on the literacy rate minimized the seriousness of the problem. Many educators, politicians and members of theThe media have a short-term interest in disbelief statistics show that the teaching of reading to be insufficient.
What percentage of American adults are functionally illiterate and in poverty?
Now, for the conclusion: What percentage of American adults are functionally illiterate? What is the percentage of functional illiterates in poverty, and because they are in poverty?
The most comprehensive and statistically accurate study of adult literacy ever commissioned by the U.S.U.S. government was a study of five years 14 million U.S. dollars, with lengthy interviews with 26 049 respondents were statistically adults.The for age, sex, ethnicity locationto balanced and representative of the entire U.S. population. The statistical study of urban, suburban and rural areas, the data from twelve countries covered in the United States in 1100 and included prisoners from 80 prisons. The study, entitled "Adult Literacy in America", was released in early September 1993. A 1148 word story onReport appeared on the front page of The New York Times, September 9, 1993. This story does not mention the difficulties of learning to read, the level of poverty, illiteracy, the causes of poverty, or the statistical balance in the relationship. In fact, the New York Times downplayed the seriousness of the problem of illiteracy and also had a number of errors in specifying the number of illiterates and percentages for the various levels of illiteracy. A 304 word story in The Washington Postappeared the same day. In reality, but also minimized the seriousness of the problem of illiteracy. The Washington Post article (and perhaps the article in the New York Times) was published in other newspapers. A 2006 follow-up report entitled "A first look at adult literacy in America in the 21st century" with 19 714 respondents in the same groups that showed the year 1993 published report prepared no statistically significant overall improvement in the U.S. - adult literacy.
The report of 1993 dividedof respondents in five literacy, depending on how the respondents answered in written documents were given to read. Although these reports showed the average number of working days per year each of the five groups and the average hourly wage earned when he worked, the report is the next logical step and calculate the annual average profit level literacy. I have a simple multiplication ratio calculated for the groups and then combined the twoat least read and compared with the groups and the combination of the three levels more educated. These calculations have shown that (1) 48.7% of U.S. adults (the latter two groups formed) earn less than the SU Census Bureau 1993 poverty threshold at the functional level and, therefore, are illiterate, (2) 31.2% of illiterate people in poverty (the percentage of adults living in poverty - not just the illiterate - is of 31.2% from 48.7% and 15.2%, which agrees closely estimates the total U.S.Poverty adults from other sources), and (3) functional illiteracy are more than twice as often in poverty because of their illiteracy and for all other reasons combined. The details of these calculations are clearly defined in Chapter 2 and Annex 9 of my book, Let's End Our Literacy Crisis, Revised Edition (see last section of this article).
Perhaps, these statistics do not describe, you know. But we are very familiar with the thousands of low income people around usneed our help?
Because illiteracy is so high?
Most people have some compassion for those in poverty among us. You may have heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day Teach a man to fish and you have fed all my life .." In this sense we can be more help functionally illiterate? Obviously we need to know why illiterate. Many people make the illiterate for hisIlliteracy. We often think that if someone is not learning to read, so do not try enough or because they are not smart enough. Is it really true? Teachers, politicians and media who want to be true, they do not know what to do about the problem.
See what the Member Rudolph Flesch on pages 76-77 of his book, Why Johnny can not read
"In general, the students in our schools over two years behind students in the group of peers in other countries.This is not a fierce indictment of the American educational system, is an established, well-known fact ... Americans take two years longer to learn to read -. And reading is, of course, the basis for success in all other subjects "
Most of us learn to read and children have long since forgotten, the difficulty we had. Our eyes can easily jump a series of traps for early readers. Listen to what Sir James Pitman said learning to read, "p. 38 of his book Alphabetsand reading "[T] he child is expected that in a task that is terrible for everyone and some just could not parse that analysis, to abstractions and generalizations of a print medium, their associations are not really determined yet. evoke consistent and twice irrational "This means that only the best students - learning to read in school - about half of them. If you do it to adulthood without learning to read, Laubach Literacy International found thatall but the most severely disabled can learn to read, but it takes about a year of one-on-one tutor training. Statistics show that less than one percent of non-reading adults never read enough for the training of teachers (see Harman and Hunter, Adult Literacy in the United States, p. 37).
Although English is an alphabetic language is considered, it is best described as a gram language logo. In the same way that the words are in Chinese pictorial script logo(Some beats in a certain position to create a word), logo, words in English (some characters represent words in a specific order). If a logical definition of phonemic word is used: each phoneme is phonemic only be written with a specific letter or letter combination, but only 20 percent of English words. The problem is that there is absolutely no way to know which words are phonemic or not.
How English spelling is inconsistent and irrational? Professor JuliusNyikos from Washington and Jefferson College is a comprehensive study of how the phonemes - the smallest sound uses, in order to distinguish between the syllables or words in a language or dialect - are written in five desk-size dictionaries (see Julius Nyikos, the fourteenth Lacus [Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States] Forum 1987, p. 146-163). He found that in 1768 there are ways to spell forty phonemes in English. We need only forty types of spelling phonemes forty - in any case. There is noSpelling in English, not the exception. Some exceptions to the exceptions! A computer programmed with all English spelling has been corrected only half spell a list of common words.
If learning to read the case, the only way any English word in our vocabulary, reading is one-to-a-time lived by storage or repeated use of the word. It takes at least two years from students, to learn enough words to readwell enough to understand what they read in order to add new words to their vocabulary, not at all confused.
What is the most obvious solution to the problem?
Dr. Frank Charles Laubach Literacy, founder of Laubach Literacy International was to read around the world of adult education in over 300 languages. In fact, he invented spelling for over 220 languages. He found that in about 95% of the languages that he could teach students to readfluent in one to twenty days. In some of the easiest languages, such as one or several dialects of the Philippines, could teach them to read in an hour! able to read (Laubach, forty years to do with the billions of Silent p. 103) in about 98% of the languages they teach readers to start flowing in less than three months (see Sanford S. Silverman, writing for 21. Century, p. v) This was possible because all these languages have been consistent and logical - almost every time you see;a specific letter or letter combination represents the same phoneme. Dr. Laubach explained on page 77 of his book, forty years ago with a billion Silent, "is phonetically spelled English, learn American children could be read in a week." It can be a bit 'optimism. Some of the students could best learn to read in a week, but every student, with the exception of the most severely mentally handicapped can certainly learn in less than three months to read. The grammar and syntax of Englishneither easier nor more difficult. However, it is easier for many European languages, most can be learned in less than three months. The best illustration of the truth of this statement is Dr. Rudolph Flesch, yet in his book Why Johnny Can not Read, p. 167-168, for students to learn Russian, for example, 46 of the 130 national languages of the Russians - first class! There is no teaching of reading, as such, after the firstClass.
When we write our own words how they sound, as over 98% of all other alphabetic languages, we learn to learn the spelling of 38 phonemes and how to read to join them in words, instead of learning the spelling of each word in our reading vocabulary . Literacy in English spelling requires knowledge of approximately 20,000 words. vocabularies of educated people read more than 70,000 words.
English is now spoken by more than1.3 billion people around the world (see Gwynne Dyer, "English little threat to many other languages," The Salt Lake Tribune, October 16, 1997, p. A 11). It is spoken by most people, the dialect of another language. It's more than any other language are used to with people who can not speak the native language of the speaker. It is estimated however that about 600 million people around the world, the English can not read English very well and are functionally illiterate in English.There are more than 93 million functional illiterates in the U.S. alone. When we wrote our word as sound, as most of the world, hundreds of millions of people do not learn to read easily in less than three months in English.
What are the benefits of end illiteracy for those of us who can read?
I cite four advantages. If you think about it, you can probably think of many others.
First, you have emotional benefit if you are interestedMy dear, or becomes, functionally illiterate.
Secondly, you will also benefit financially, because illiteracy is now cost at least U.S. $ 5,186 per adult per year due to (1) taxes for government programs that illiterates and truancy, the juvenile delinquency and crime directly from 2 to illiteracy in the compound, and () Higher prices for consumer goods because of illiteracy in the workplace.
Third, because illiteracy affects all firms to a certain extent, some of themseriously, you will benefit if your employer to improve business, or if other companies to invest time and money to improve, where illiteracy is over.
Fourth, there by the end of illiteracy, when our nation to improve the trade balance, national reports and our national employment, improving the written communication between nations benefit.
Why spelling reform is the best solution to illiteracy?
When Dr. Samuel Johnson gave his well-received Dictionaryin 1755, he made a grammatical error, the freezing of the spelling of words rather than freezing the spelling of phonemes, as a language in alphabetical order to make sense. The spelling of each word has been in almost all cases the way in which the word in one of eight languages that have contributed to the written word in English until 1755. For Celtic, Norwegian, Icelandic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, German, Danish and French, has obviously had different spellings for manyphonemes. As you may know, is the pronunciation of words with many changes of time, so what was bad in 1755, still worse. Moreover, as Henry Hitchings in his book "The Secret Life of Words, says since 1755, we have" borrowed "words - and often their spelling - some 350 other languages.
As I said, the only way to learn English is to be stored or read to learn from repeated use of each word in our vocabulary, reading one-on-a-time. In simpler times, before the1920, which is exactly what happened. Since then we have dozens of enjoyable activity, the students were distracted by the time required to develop learning spelling. Music on the radio, CD, iPod and rock concerts, film, television and DVD player, Internet, video games, new sports and extracurricular activities take time away from boring memorization of English words. There are also plenty of new negative influences on students, how to divert gang activity, new medicines, andmore houses in the divorce because divorce laws relaxed in the 20th Century broken.
The use of whole-word method in teaching began in 1920, partly in hopes of avoiding the hard work for both students and teachers to learn the spelling of words, one-on-a-time. Although there have been numerous attempts to improve the teaching of reading in the last eighty years - particularly in the month of April 1983 "Nation at Risk" report - all of these efforts have been exceeded for the targetDifficulties of English spelling through a better textbooks, better teaching methods, better teacher training and better ways student motivation. In other words, for the last eighty years, we have to fight the symptoms of the problem - the difficulty of learning the spelling of words - rather than solving the problem of spelling simple, coherent and logical. This is similar to aspirin, nasal drops and cough syrup for symptoms of pneumonia, rather thanto treat with penicillin.
Consider these facts about the spelling reform:
First, dozens of scientists over the last 250 years or more spelling reform recommended.
Thirty-second States, both smaller and larger than the United States, both developed and developing countries have simplified their spelling.
Third, a simpler spelling system has been effective, Dr. Laubach work in over 300 languages alphabetically. Nowhere in any of the books that Dr. LaubachThe reference to students who have not learned to read, and learned in less than three months in 98% or more of the languages. Most of the 51.3% of U.S. adults who have learned to read (ie 100 minus 48.7% functionally illiterate) are required to learn at least two years.
Fourth, if you've learned, I would be to promote the reform of spelling, you can not work any reasons why the thought, but several scholars have complied completely removed all objections reasonable spellingReform.
Fifth, the need for a higher literacy rate is more than ever in our increasingly complex world. There are very few jobs available, no jurisdiction.
But here's the kicker: the sixth, spelling reform has never been tried in English!
The solution to illiteracy
A solution to illiteracy was discovered and perfected. This is a simple graph, coherent and logical as Dr. Laubach recommended. AComputer program that can change quickly up to 25 pages at a time when the traditional spelling of the proposed scoring system was made available free to the public. This computer program is an English word database of more than 514 000 words. It will convert about 99% of the Fed to everything and there are flag words are not converted to manual conversion. The sites were developed, many detailed facts about the suggested spelling, examples of the longsuggested spelling and ten incontrovertible reasons why it is better than any of the dozens of spelling proposed systems that have been proposed since 1800. The proposed scoring system is also described on Wikipedia. It's so easy now, readers can learn the system in less than ten minutes. That's because 30 of the spelling of the 38 phonemes (79% of them), the proposed system, the most common spelling of that phoneme in English. The problem with traditional spellingwhich is not only a more common but also used a second, is used in addition to most people, etc. Each phoneme has at least four English spelling. The phoneme U, as in the word of his mother, at least 60 spelling! If this is not nutty, I tell you what. The other 8 are likely spelling the phonemes. For example, people expect the majority of the letters F to get the fans sound like the word, but more often has a V sound, because of the simple word, and people expect at all that the letter STo set the tone, as in the word, but more often has a Z-sound, because the words were common, and the plural as handbags. The majority of return for today's readers can submit their reading rates after three or four months of acclimatization.
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