Literacy: State of the art at the tertiary level

Malaysia is rapidly moving into an information-technology age in which full participation in education, science, business, industry and the professions is necessary and inevitable. The steady increase in the standards of literacy in the dynamic, social-economic environment must be met with. What se...

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Main Author: Mullai Ramaiah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
Online Access:http://borneojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3817
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description Malaysia is rapidly moving into an information-technology age in which full participation in education, science, business, industry and the professions is necessary and inevitable. The steady increase in the standards of literacy in the dynamic, social-economic environment must be met with. What seemed an adequate level of literacy in the 19805 seems marginal now. Hence, it is essential that tertiary level students attain a reasonable if not an excellent standard of literacy - literacy in English in particular, to meet the demands of the information era. Malaysia is rapidly moving into an information-technology age in which full participation in education, science, business, industry and the professions is necessary and inevitable. The steady increase in the standards of literacy in the dynamic, social-economic environment must be met with. What seemed an adequate level of literacy in the 19805 seems marginal now. Hence, it is essential that tertiary level students attain a reasonable if not an excellent standard of literacy - literacy in English in particular, to meet the demands of the information era.
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