I’m actually not sure what week it is or if I’m supposed to be posting or have posted, so I thought it might be prudent to put up a question anyway. Here goes:
- How important is it to have someone to read to? Akinasso seemed to think it was a very important part of literacy. So much so that his quest to find someone to read to takes up a significant portion of his literacy narrative. So how important is it in the definition of literacy to have someone to read to? If, somehow, you cannot communicate your complete language verbally – for instance, an entirely text-based culture in which texting, writing notes, and reading other peoples’ writing are the ONLY forms of communication – are you still literate? Or do you need to be able to read to people and give speeches and such? Along the same lines, what if the written language is separate from the spoken one, so that speaking to someone and reading to them are entirely separate?