Srivastava, R. and Gupta 1990

Srivastava, R. N., and R. S. Gupta. 1990. "Literacy in a multilingual context." In Pattanayak 1990. Interest level: academic.

States that research in literacy has involved language, society, and cognition. In 1983, identified the following dimensions:

• Literacy as a skill involving the ability to control the visual (graphic) medium of language, using written language for sociocultural ends
• Literacy as participation of the socially deprived and economically disadvantaged in the heritage of written culture
• Literacy as an enabling factor in reasoning, linear thinking and accumulation of knowledge, facilitating conditions conducive to linguistic innovation and imaginative creativity

Discusses language ecology: literacy in relationship to monolingual and multilingual societies, and to individual and societal bilingualism. Discusses use Devanagari, Roman, and Perso-Arabic scripts. Concludes with general statements about the relationship of literacy and socioeconomic development. States that functional literacy is the major thrust of the literacy movement in India.

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