lay literacy

linguistics
Also known as: environmental literacy

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  • Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif.
    In writing: Literacy and schooling

    Environmental literacy or lay literacy is the term used to designate that form of unspecialized competence involved in generally dealing with a literate environment. Such literacy need never be taught. It is a type of literacy that is acquired through participating in a literate environment in which written…

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