Lese- und Schreibkompetenz: Was ist Alphabetisierung?
Reading and writing skills: What is literacy?
Common definitions of the term illiteracy are:
- Primary illiteracy, when people have no reading and writing skills at all (e.g. due to lack of school attendance)
- Secondary illiteracy, when knowledge once acquired has been forgotten again despite attending school
- functional illiteracy, when reading and writing skills are not sufficient to "function" in a writing-oriented society
- However, people who have been literate in their mother tongue and only do not know the Latin alphabet are not illiterate
