Literacy experts and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent adult literacy assessment, which shows that the reading proficiency of college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious explanation
It’s time to acknowledge that in a truly multimedia environment of 2025, most Americans don’t need to understand more than a hundred or so words at a time, and certainly will never read anything approaching the length of an old-fashioned book. We need a frank reassessment of where long-form literacy itself lies in the spectrum of skills that a modern nation requires of its workers.
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I read regularly but leaves me thinkin… how many times do I write somethin a day. Most of the times I wield out my pen is for a signature…. and autographs.
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September 15th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Last year at Sunday School, kids, aged 13 to 16 who read books regularly were asked to raise their hands…about 4 or 5 did. Newspapers or magazines got 3 or 4. It shocked the heebie jeebies out of me. But come to think of it, that’s nothing new among Mizo children. No wonder most are so poorly read with little or practically no GK apart from what they learn in schools. Pathetic state of affairs.
And I’m not surprised to learn Americans aren’t any better. When you chat to most Yankees online, they’re so colossally dumb with a capital D!!!
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September 15th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Home? When I was at home , I never read. Today, when I go home, I do carry mags and books, most of the time, I come back without opening them.
I really used to envy kids in school who had read lots of Hardy Boys series, something I started only in 11th std.
I never read comic.I only used to look at the pictures. Only Phantom, a few. But I did enhence functional as well as recognition vocabulary from cartoons, movies..
I am poor in spelling. I pretty much rely on Google for spell checking, even for MIzo words. I don’t know if my dependency on Google for spelling checking would do good or bad.
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September 15th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
this is one issue ..that really gets me.mizo kids dont get good books to read.most schools in mizoram dont have libraries and reading is not encouraged even by teachers and by most parents.we want kids to read only stories related to `God’..or stories with good morals….all this is not bad in itself..but it doesnt always interests the kid..and u know..we do learn a lot of life`s lessons and even good manners and about life in general by reading enid blyton,comics etc. i `ve been to many mizos houses..peeps who are loaded and they dont have a single book or magazine lying around in their house!!! i find this shocking….my daughter who is in class three can read better then some of the kids in cl-5 or 6 in mizoram studying in english medium schools…this is sad sad sad..and my daughter is just an average in reading in her school..says a lot i think…i always wondered why this is so in mizoram…awiz ka vei ve sia..ka sawi thiam silova…:)) its hard to even get a decent book in mizoram..unless if its something to do with theology or “God-related”…..comics mai mai te hi a thra asin reading habit neihnan chuan..aaa ka sawi thiam lo..
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September 15th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
sawithiam khawp alom. Now you sound like a *real* mom. Coffee mai mai sawi lo, tiang hi sawi tur
I started reading for the fear of a man – my LG in Trichy. Soon, I found myself liking it.
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September 15th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
hehhe ben ty..coffee sawi hi a hahdam zawk alom..lolzzz… i cant live without having at least one or two books to read …my reading habit started off with amar chitra katha and indrajal comics and fairy tales, when we were in cl 1 or 2..then i graduated to enid blyton bedtime stories,mallory towers,st`clare`s etc,then to classics like little men,little women,heidi, etc,nancy drew,hardy boys etc..now i`m a book whore extraordinaire!! hehhehe
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September 15th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
life10 wrote:
Oiiii Life10, besides the books u mentioned, let me add Five find outers, Famous five, Louis L’Amour, Agatha Christie, Sydney Sheldon blah blah blah…..the list can go on….
And in those ‘bookworm’ days, once I start reading, I had the strong urge to read the whole book at once. Couldn’t leave it half-way and I would be soooo engrossed that I often didn’t hear ppl talking to me. Mom would be like….***Arrrrgggghhhh** Lung hlui i va tileng ve
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September 17th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
lol jinx..nia five findouters,famous five,secret seven,the magic far away tree tih vel te kha..i can still read them even now..:)
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September 17th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
life10 wrote:
dunno about the “book” part but…
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September 17th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
add “three investigators” to that list. hehe good ol days, covering myself with a blanket after lights out in the hostel dorm and reading the novels with a torchlight…. *sigh*
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September 17th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
someone needs a good `ol ass-spanking!!!! khawnge i link chu sandman..ka chhiar chak
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