ILLITERACY IS A LIFE SENTENCE

solomon507 (56) in dolphinschool • 7 years ago (edited)

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The word illiterate has become synonymous and even sometimes, has a denigrating sense in spite of this, most illiterate are in no way ashamed of their situation they are not concerned about them being illiterate and that is why few of them see no reason to learn.

According to several surveys, a large percentage of the population is illiterate and that sixty or seventy percent have no wish to learn to read and write.
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Illiteracy has come to be a plague and we have reached a point where illiterates almost appear to be in an endangered group. This Is manifested by the strong military terminology now used in connection with illiteracy. But if this is seriously considered, there may be a change. This can also be seen in our children today when it comes to the English language. Some of the factors responsible are the interference of the mother tongue. African languages are tonal whereas English is a stress language. As a result, most English words are not correctly pronounced by Africans. Interference also leads to a tendency to do a direct translation of the mother tongue expressions into English. The outcome is incorrect English.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue in our history as the abolition of slavery.
-Maya Angelou

Furthermore, because of a poor background in English, there is a poor understanding of the language. Some of them have difficulty in even reading English words.

Making it a practice to speak English always will make these ones perfect and improve they're spoken and, by extension, written English.
If this step is looked into, there will be a marked improvement.

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mawit07 (66) · 7 years ago

I coming out to say I was in English as Second Language classes throughout most of my public school years. I must say the most difficult part of reading and writing is learning the grammar and spelling of words. Honestly as I grew older I become more open minded when it came to writing. What I mean is when someone writes incomplete sentences I do not really care as long as the information has been conveyed.

To often people look down on others because of one's accent or broken sentences but the way I see it is words are written and spoken to express one's thoughts to another. As long as I understand I do not care how it has been written or spoken. Thanks.

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markrmorrisjr (70) · 7 years ago

I applaud you for taking on such a huge topic! Your preview image is a great one! I loved it. Your layout and post flow are coming along. You've gotten a decent start on payouts here as well. Now for the critique. First, today's assignment was to pitch an offer to your audience, something big, something you would do for them. I don't find that here. Your topic is much more important than this challenge, however, the assignment was not completely fulfilled. Next, I think you should consider changing your title to match that preview image, Illiteracy is a Life Sentence is much more compelling than this one word on its own. Finally, your writing confused me. Let me say, you're incredible for writing in English as as second language at all. But, if you're going to tackle literacy, your readers will notice your grammar and some who could give large upvotes, won't. First, your opening paragraph has enough errors to make it hard to understand. Then, I wonder, can you more closely define the area that has over 60% illiteracy? The worldwide level is less than half of that, according to these statistics. http://www-01.sil.org/literacy/LitFacts.htm You've created a beautiful post that is getting some good attention! You should be proud of that. Correcting these small issues may pay off in a big way! Thanks again for joining dolphinschool!

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solomon507 (56) · 7 years ago

Okay. I will work on that and improve further on my next post

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jampresents (39) · 7 years ago

Great post.

I teach many students that are English Language Learners (ELL) and your comment on vocabulary knowledge and the need for oral conversation are very apt.

Moral of the story: encourage speaking/listening and reading/voabulary skills and the rest will follow.

All the best.

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solomon507 (56) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the info.

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mineopoly (64) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing. Illiteracy is a much bigger problem than just "English". Overcoming learning disabilities to recognize letters and symbols... providing reading materials and language coaching are not going to be easy for world literacy.

On a positive point I am glad to see more African writers here.