I was going to write a similar comment but it seems Naomi beat me to it.
It's certainly a few years since I heard someone use "illiterate" to refer to
adult Literacy learners.
Adrian.
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:50:16 -0000, Naomi Horrocks
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>It is great to have all this information but I have huge problems with the use
of the term illiterate. It is not only a pejorative term and one which has not
been in use for some years now but is also often inaccurate. Many people
termed illiterate do in fact have some literacy as recent research has shown.
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