Note: Normally, I do not publish my blog, English
Updates, on weekends. However, I publish several other blogs during the
week having to do with ideas in English education that are not current, but
still useful. On weekends, I will publish samples of these ideas. RayS.
Question: What do we
need to consider when working with adult illiterates?
Answer/Quote: “The
individual who is illiterate is part of a system within the family and society
and cannot be considered in isolation…. That person has failed to learn to read
and any attempt to teach him or her must address the failure and resulting
anxiety and loss of self-esteem. What s/he experienced in attempting to learn
to read,, any special efforts that were made to help the individual, how the
person has compensated for not being able to read, what efforts were made to
hide the inability to read, and how that affected the person’s life
academically, socially and emotionally are critical factors in determining the
psychological scars the individual carries into adulthood because of the
inability to read.” P. 126.
Comment: I’m not suggesting that a person who has not
been trained in working with adult illiterates try it as an amateur. I’m just
alerting my readers to the complexity of the problem. RayS.
Title: “The Use of an
Educational Therapy Model with an Illiterate Adult.” MJ Scully and CL Johnston.
Journal of Reading (October 1991), 126-131.
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