Sentence examples for definition of literacy from inspiring English sources

Our definition of literacy is changing.

The definition of literacy has changed over the years.

Gee has advocated for years that our definition of "literacy" needs to be widened to better suit the times.

IALS adopted the definition of literacy used in the 1987 Young Adult Literacy Survey, the 1993 National Adult Literacy Survey in the United States, and an assessment of adult literacy conducted by the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training in Australia (Wickert 1989).

Estimates of the average literacy rate in the Empire range from 5 to 30 percent or higher, depending in part on the definition of "literacy".

Importantly, according to Marna Stalcup, program manager for the RBI, there is "a growing awareness and appreciation of our work by the business community... attributed (in large part) to our expanded definition of literacy that includes the 21st century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking".

One of the central endeavors in contemporary literacy studies is to interrogate traditional definitions of literacy and deconstruct literacy myths.

For oral health literacy, the definition of health literacy developed by Ratzan and Parker [ 4] was later adopted for use in the context of oral health.

5 A recent survey of health literacy in Europe, where a common definition of health literacy was adopted, shows a range of health literacy skills between nations, with the proportion of the population having suboptimal health literacy skills ranging from 27.3% in the Netherlands to 61.4% in Bulgaria.

Although we provide a general definition of health literacy, defining and measuring health literacy has not yet achieved consensus in the literature [ 15].

Using the framework as shown in figure 1 and making reference to CDC's definition of health literacy, we propose to develop a health literacy scale using a 5-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree and 5=strongly agree).