張祖平

摘自：cutecalendar.com

International Literacy Day is to be celebrated worldwide on September 8th， 2017. The day was announced by UNESCO on November 17， 1965 and first celebrated in 1966. Its aim is to highlight2 the importance of literacy to every person， communities and societies. On International Literacy Day each year， UNESCO reminds the international community of the situation of literacy and adult learning globally.

Some 776 million adults lack basic literacy skills； one in five adults is still not literate3 and twothirds of them are women； 75 million children are outofschool and many more attend irregularly4 or drop out.

Literacy has been described as the ability to read for knowledge and write coherently5 and think critically about the written word. Literacy can also include the ability to understand all forms of communication， including body language， pictures， video or sound （reading， speaking， listening and viewing）.

今年的國際掃盲日于9月8日在全球范圍內(nèi)慶祝。這個節(jié)日是由聯(lián)合國教科文組織在1965年11月17日宣布設(shè)立的，并在1966年首次慶祝。這個節(jié)日的目的是強(qiáng)調(diào)讀寫能力對每個人、社區(qū)和社會的重要性。每年的“國際掃盲日”，聯(lián)合國教科文組織在全球范圍內(nèi)提醒（關(guān)注）國際社會讀寫能力、全球成人學(xué)習(xí)的情況。

大約7.76億成年人不具備最基本的讀寫技能；每5個成年人中就有一人仍不具備讀寫能力，這其中的三分之二是婦女；7500萬兒童上不起學(xué)，更多的兒童不定期上學(xué)或輟學(xué)。

讀寫能力被描述為能從閱讀中獲取知識、條理清晰地書寫、并批判性地思考書面文字的能力。讀寫能力也包括理解各種形式的交際的能力，包括肢體語言、圖片、視頻或者音頻（讀、說、聽、看）。endprint