Presenting a Text-Task-Respondent (TTR) Theory of Functional Literacy, this book explains what those involved in adult literacy education need to know in order to help people perform literacy tasks successfully at work, and in schools as many shift focus from 'reading to learn' to 'reading to use' information to solve real problems.

"This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on analysis of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author analyzes these extensive surveys and puts them into a theoretical context in a way that has not been done before." - Rosemary J. Park, University of Minnesota

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