literacy skills

collocation in English

meaningsofliteracyandskill

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literacy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ə.si/
us
/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.si/
the ability to read ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofliteracyandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It has become evident that the literacy skills taught in schools may not be relevant to everyday literacy tasks.
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Individuals with weak communication and literacy skills will inevitably find it difficult to participate in an economy requiring increasingly more sophisticated communication skills.
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The perception of morphophonologically changing stems has itself been shown to be related to literacy skills.
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Did it mean teaching him or her higher level reading and literacy skills to be able to approach high-brow literature?
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Taking a closer look at the performance of two proficient, balanced bilinguals with above-average literacy skills, these global tendencies are confirmed.
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This study extends the literature on the relation between reading practices and individual characteristics of participants in adult education who have low literacy skills.
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By this account, the contribution of kindergarten writing to later literacy skills is explained as the joint product of both socioliteracy and alphabetic variables.
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The design of the study did not enable us to examine the influence of individual oral language and background variables on literacy skills.
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This study confirms the difficulty of training literacy skills in children with severe language impairments.
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Teaching patients with low literacy skills.
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They noted that children who have not fully developed literacy skills tend to perform better on listening rather than reading tasks.
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The paper explains how the course increased teachers' electronic literacy skills in areas such as word-processing and email.
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However, without overt instruction, the development of speaking and literacy skills in the immigrant language has usually been severely limited and even curtailed entirely.
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This is because teaching methods for literacy skills (whole-word, whole-language, or phonics) can mask underlying cognitive-linguistic processes.
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