The Relation between Language Skills and Functional Literacy in University Graduates
The Relation between Language Skills and Functional Literacy in University Graduates

Summary/Abstract: This study is one of the consequtive stages of a macro project designed to identify the relation between language skills and functional literacy in Turkish adults with varying educational backgrounds. Within this framework, earlier stages investigated how elementary and high school graduates in the Turkish society could functionally use their language skills. The consideration is that one’s level of functional literacy observed in his linguistic practices involves how successfully he expresses himself through written and oral language, as well as how successfully he comprehends and interprets written and oral discourse in line with the dynamics of the idealized social and linguistic norms in the information society (Baynham, 1995, Barton, 1987). Although schooling is assumed to be providing individuals with the basics of such linguistic skills, the development or maintenance of these skills to meet the demands of the modern society may present individual- or groupspecific characteristics.

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