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Encouraging Adults to Acquire Literacy Skills (1990)

Encouraging Adults to Acquire Literacy Skills Double-A conformance, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Accessible Adobe PDF

Authors: Audrey M Thomas

This resource includes the following:
- Information on who are the low-literate adults?
- What is literacy and why is it important in our society?
- Why do low-literate adults not participate in programs?
- What participants say about coming to adult basic literacy programs?
- And what about dropouts?
- Learner recruitment and retention
- Useful resources

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Added: 2002-07-29

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The National Literacy Secretariat
Multiculturalism and Citizenship
Ottawa, ON K1A 0M5
Tel.: (819) 997-0055

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