Writing task 2. Your comments please.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:43 pm
Subject: Illiteracy has traditionally been viewed as largely a third world problem. However, it is becoming apparent that in countries such as USA and Australia, illiteracy is on the increase. Discuss possible causes for this and its effects on society.
These days, it is believed that illiteracy has conventionally been alerted as a global phenomenon in undeveloped countries. Besides, this big matter becomes growing considerably in developed nations such as American and Australia. Some reasons and effects of them on society will be further discussed as follow.
In poor countries, the Governments do not have enough policies and budgets to support education. There are not many schools in resident areas, and they are so far and have no convenient transportation from home to class. Furthermore, the propagation for essential literacy has not been applied by government officials to citizens. Besides, the parents are basically illiteracy, so they do not have consciousness to require and encourage their children to go to school. The illiteracy is a cycle. Most of the families are poor, the adults just care for earning money to satisfy basic needs everyday. The children even have to work from the early age, so these tiredness and difficulties in their life lead them to quit school when they even can not read and write their own name.
This issue not only occurs at poor nations, but also becomes a big matter at developed countries with full of all conditions for education. Any troubles have their reasons, in these places the parents are so busy for their business instead of responsibility for their children’s education, and these children interact the modern technology equipments so soon, which is the reason for becoming addict games and might play truant to satisfy their hobbies.
As a consequence, the young generation will make the future, but the increase of illiteracy has much impact on society. In undeveloped countries, there lack high-level employees, which create a stagnate economy. In addition, the cutting-edge and modern tools are seemly hard to interact. The illiteracy is one of the reasons for social issues such as criminal acts, poor infrastructures and health problems. In particular, the more illiteracy the developed countries have, the less competitive ability they get which ruin their reputation in many fields.
In conclusion, the illiteracy must be considered and overcome in over the world to develop in globalization currently.
These days, it is believed that illiteracy has conventionally been alerted as a global phenomenon in undeveloped countries. Besides, this big matter becomes growing considerably in developed nations such as American and Australia. Some reasons and effects of them on society will be further discussed as follow.
In poor countries, the Governments do not have enough policies and budgets to support education. There are not many schools in resident areas, and they are so far and have no convenient transportation from home to class. Furthermore, the propagation for essential literacy has not been applied by government officials to citizens. Besides, the parents are basically illiteracy, so they do not have consciousness to require and encourage their children to go to school. The illiteracy is a cycle. Most of the families are poor, the adults just care for earning money to satisfy basic needs everyday. The children even have to work from the early age, so these tiredness and difficulties in their life lead them to quit school when they even can not read and write their own name.
This issue not only occurs at poor nations, but also becomes a big matter at developed countries with full of all conditions for education. Any troubles have their reasons, in these places the parents are so busy for their business instead of responsibility for their children’s education, and these children interact the modern technology equipments so soon, which is the reason for becoming addict games and might play truant to satisfy their hobbies.
As a consequence, the young generation will make the future, but the increase of illiteracy has much impact on society. In undeveloped countries, there lack high-level employees, which create a stagnate economy. In addition, the cutting-edge and modern tools are seemly hard to interact. The illiteracy is one of the reasons for social issues such as criminal acts, poor infrastructures and health problems. In particular, the more illiteracy the developed countries have, the less competitive ability they get which ruin their reputation in many fields.
In conclusion, the illiteracy must be considered and overcome in over the world to develop in globalization currently.