国际扫盲日

张祖平

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）.

今年的國际扫盲日于9月8日在全球范围内庆祝。这个节日是由联合国教科文组织在1965年11月17日宣布设立的，并在1966年首次庆祝。这个节日的目的是强调读写能力对每个人、社区和社会的重要性。每年的“国际扫盲日”，联合国教科文组织在全球范围内提醒（关注）国际社会读写能力、全球成人学习的情况。

大约7.76亿成年人不具备最基本的读写技能；每5个成年人中就有一人仍不具备读写能力，这其中的三分之二是妇女；7500万儿童上不起学，更多的儿童不定期上学或辍学。

读写能力被描述为能从阅读中获取知识、条理清晰地书写、并批判性地思考书面文字的能力。读写能力也包括理解各种形式的交际的能力，包括肢体语言、图片、视频或者音频（读、说、听、看）。endprint