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Literacy is so pervasive in contemporary society that people who have not attended school and are not literate face many difficulties in everyday life. They develop ways of coping with what they perceive as a deficiency in themselves and feel compelled to pass for literates, creating excuses when they must ask a stranger to read something for them: “I forgot my glasses. Would you mind telling me what that sign says?” (Nunes Carraher, 1987; see also Wagner, 1993).
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Nunes, T. (1999). Introductory Comments. In: Nunes, T. (eds) Learning to Read: An Integrated View from Research and Practice. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4826-9_7
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