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Eleven million U.S.adults – about one in 20 – have such poor English skills that they can’t read a newspaper,understand the directions on a bottle of pills or,in many cases,carry on a basic conversation,says a new federal(联邦的) survey that offers the first look in more than a decade at the USA’s “nonliterate”adult population.
Recent immigrants with limited or no English skills account for most of the group,adult education advocates say,but the survey suggests that even the average adult has low skills.
The first comprehensive look at adult literacy since a similar study in 1992,the National Assessment of Adult Literacy”released(发布)last December,found that 30 million or so adults,or 14%,have “below basic”skills.
Black adults made gains on each type of task tested.White adults made no significant changes except when it came to computing numbers,where they got better.Latinos (拉丁美洲人) showed sharp declines in their ability to handle text and documents.The results are based on a sample of more than 19 ,000 adults,age 16 or older,living in homes,college housing or prisons.
Survey concluded that about 11 million adults are “nonliterate” in English,including 4 million who probably can’t speak English and 7 million who can’t answer basic written questions.
We remain concerned that the numbers are so high,” said Leslie Burger of the American Library Association.She and others said the high number of non-literate adults is a function of increased immigration in the past decade.The non-literate population includes adults who may be able to read and write-even at high levels-in another language.
“It’s really hard to have a well educated and highly intellectual population of children if they go home to parents who do not have adequate readihg skills,”,said Dale Lipschultz,presidents of the National Coalition for Literacy.
Eleven million U.S.adults – about one in 20 – have such poor English skills that they can’t read a newspaper,understand the directions on a bottle of pills or,in many cases,carry on a basic conversation,says a new federal(联邦的) survey that offers the first look in more than a decade at the USA’s “nonliterate”adult population.
Recent immigrants with limited or no English skills account for most of the group,adult education advocates say,but the survey suggests that even the average adult has low skills.
The first comprehensive look at adult literacy since a similar study in 1992,the National Assessment of Adult Literacy”released(发布)last December,found that 30 million or so adults,or 14%,have “below basic”skills.
Black adults made gains on each type of task tested.White adults made no significant changes except when it came to computing numbers,where they got better.Latinos (拉丁美洲人) showed sharp declines in their ability to handle text and documents.The results are based on a sample of more than 19 ,000 adults,age 16 or older,living in homes,college housing or prisons.
Survey concluded that about 11 million adults are “nonliterate” in English,including 4 million who probably can’t speak English and 7 million who can’t answer basic written questions.
We remain concerned that the numbers are so high,” said Leslie Burger of the American Library Association.She and others said the high number of non-literate adults is a function of increased immigration in the past decade.The non-literate population includes adults who may be able to read and write-even at high levels-in another language.
“It’s really hard to have a well educated and highly intellectual population of children if they go home to parents who do not have adequate readihg skills,”,said Dale Lipschultz,presidents of the National Coalition for Literacy.
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