International Literacy Day, focusing on the new illiterate

Today is the 48th International Literacy Day. The national census data showed that the illiteracy rate was 4.08% in 2010 and the illiterate population was about 54.66 million. According to the fifth edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary of 2005, illiteracy refers to "illiterate adults". ”

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With the development of science and technology, there is a new "illiterate": many people forget the word, a lot of words to see, is not written. Experts call for young people to pick up the pen again, not to do the computer age of the new "illiterate."

Xi ' An in 1996, the basic elimination of adult illiteracy, at the end of 1998, the adult non-illiteracy rate reached 99.8%

Our country has swept away "traditional illiteracy" on a large scale

TV subtitles occasionally appear several words, 94-Year-old Xi ' an citizen Qu Lady will try to read out, Bosun are happy.

Other people thought she had been to school, Ms. Qu said, she had "literate class". As a child, adults said that girls go to school without use, girls learn sewing at home, very few people go to school. 1950, the state let them go to school, said not to school is not a new era of women. At that time, she had a year of "literate class", "read a lot of words, now old, a lot of words have forgotten ..."

Ms. Qu said that the "literate class" was in the early days of the founding of the New China, the National literacy campaign appeared, when the illiteracy rate of our country as high as 80%.

Xi ' An Bureau of Statistics issued 2009 report that Xi ' an was the first in 1996 in the province to achieve a basic universal nine-year compulsory education, the basic elimination of adult illiteracy, the end of 1998, Xi ' an adult illiteracy rate reached 99.8%. By the end of 2007, the proportion of the total population of Austria in Xi ' an was 14.5%, and the average age of 6 years was 9.63 year.

Xi ' An Bureau of Higher Education and Adult Education Department staff said that the literacy work in the past has been undertaken by the XI ' an Literacy Work Committee, a director of the education of the deputy mayor as the main head of the agency. With the popularization of nine-year compulsory education, in the middle of the 90 's, the institution has been abolished and the relevant personnel have been merged into XI ' an Bureau of Education. At present, Xi ' an Bureau of Education, Civil affairs, trade unions and other departments, has transformed the previous "literacy" work into social education, youth skills, to improve the level of adult labor.

The person who can knock on the computer every minute, can send a text message with the eyes closed, a pen to write on the dumbfounded

What are we going to do about being a "modern illiterate"?

2005, the United Nations will not use computers to learn and communicate with people defined as "modern illiteracy." And China's "new illiterate" is mostly computer parasites. Recently, the CCTV new column "Chinese character Dictation Congress" is very hot, after reading you will find that "pen forget the word" is not sensational. When the program premiere, to the scene audience dictation "Pixiu", "fist", "shooting" and other words frequently error, only 30% of people correctly wrote the "Toad", "bookkeeper" two words only 10% correct rate.

A series of "Chinese calligraphy" surveys of 12 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi ' an show that 94.1% of people have written and forgotten words, and 26.8% of them often write and forget words, and Chinese characters have become "the most familiar strangers". Can on the computer every minute knocks on hundred words person, can close the eye to send the text message the person, picks up the pen to write has become "the most dumbfounded cultural man". Including Luo, Zhang Ziyi, Lihui and other celebrities have a typo in the microblog.

Excessive use of electronic products, resulting in lower writing ability. In order to avoid the embarrassment of the pen to forget the word, to remedy the majority of "aphasia", how do we do? Recently, Professor Wenzhong of Fudan University said that the decline of Chinese writing ability is a natural phenomenon in the process of the evolution of writing tools. He advised us to write more letters. In addition, calligraphy classes should be promoted in primary schools.

Newspaper reporter Jia Chen

Interpretation of nouns: international Literacy Day

The International Literacy Day was established by UNESCO at its 14th Congress on November 17, 1965, with a date of September 8 each year, aimed at mobilizing the attention of the world and relevant international institutions to the phenomenon of illiteracy and promoting universal primary education in all countries of the world, enabling children of all ages to go to school and attain the goal of literacy.

UN proposes "functional illiteracy"

In the 2005, the United Nations redefined the standards of illiteracy in the new century into three categories:

The first category, people who cannot read and write, this is the traditional sense of the old illiterate;

The second category, can not identify modern social symbols (that is, maps, graphs, etc.) of the person;

Third, people who cannot use computers to learn, communicate and manage.

The latter two categories are considered "functional illiterate", although they are educated, but in modern science and technology common sense, but often as poor as illiteracy, in the modern information social life is very difficult.

Our country literate standard: farmer knows 1500 words

Chang, a professor of continuing education at the Central University of Nationalities, said that the current personal literate standards in China are: Farmers know 1500 Chinese characters, enterprises and institutions, workers and urban residents to understand 2000 characters; able to read simple and popular newspapers and periodicals, can write simple books, and be able to make easy writings. This standard, which was formed in the 50 's, has clearly failed to meet the needs of today's individual and social development.

Chongqing stipulates not to obey traffic lights is illiterate

In the 2009, the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission made a new definition of the scope of modern literacy. Will not finance (mainly involves access to money, remittances, endowment insurance medical care, etc.), do not understand the common sense of electricity, do not comply with traffic lights are included in the category of "illiteracy."