Research on Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition

Abstract

"For more than half a century, every adult in post-industrialized societies has been assumed to have had ten or so years of schooling. In these countries “many of the characteristic features of reading are so familiar and seem so natural that they have become invisible” (Chartier, 2004:493). What we take for granted is the impetus for research on the second language (L2) acquisition and reading development of adults with little or no formal education in their native or any other language"