Cultural literacy
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cultural-literacy-195-9430087
title:
Cultural literacy
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Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture. Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper. A literate reader knows the object-language's alphabet, grammar, and a sufficient set of vocabulary; a culturally literate person knows a given culture's signs and symbols, including its language, particular dialectic, stories, entertainment, idioms, idiosyncrasies, and so
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encyclopedia
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Ability to understand a culture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_literacy
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2023-12-31T07:34:16Z
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