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The following media offers additional information for tutors on the teaching of adult literacy and on literacy in general.

This video, produced by The National Adult Literacy Agency in Ireland, offers practical tips on how tutors can best use their students’ existing skills and act in a way that empowers their students. For example, Dr. Vicky Duckworth reminds tutors that, when delivering lessons, they should avoid using language “in a way that distances the learners.” Instead, they must “demystify the language” and use language in a manner that’s clear, accessible and “empowers the leaners to join in to a dialogic conversation.”

 

      Personal Literacy Practices of Adults with Limited Schooling - Dr. Sarah Vander Zanden

 

In this episode of the Voice of Literacy podcast, Dr. Vander Zanden, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Northern Iowa, speaks with Dr. Kristen Perry, Associate Professor and Director of the Cultural Practices of Literacy Study at the University of Kentucky, about Dr. Perry’s recent article in the Journal of Literacy Research.

Source: UNESCO. (2016, September 8). Literacy: Reading the Past, Writing the Future [Infographic]. Retrieved May 15, 2017, from http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/images/ild-2016-infographic.jpg

This infographic, produced for UNESCO’s 2016 International Literacy Day, offers statistics on literacy globally and also recounts the past 50 years in literacy history.