how you now see literacy working, AND how you see literacy as important socially.

how you now see literacy working, AND how you see literacy as important socially.

From Gee and Ong’ s reading, we can figure that literacy is a way that people learn how to live in this society, for example, how to build their own mind, how to read others, how to understand others, how to communicate. Literacy is a way people learn how to write, how to read, how to speak. But “Literacy people are not simply thinking and speaking human beings but chirographically thinking and speaking human beings”。It is the ability of writing,speaking, reading and listening for people to live in this world. But depends on high technology world, people do not have a deep understanding of literacy. Also, literacy is a kind of tool for people to use language as secondary institutions。Except language, writing is another issue. Ong said“Writing, Plato has Socrates say in the Phaedrus, is inhuman, pretending to establish outside the mind what in reality can only be in the mind. Writing is simply a thing, something to be manipulated, something inhuman, artificial, a manufactured product. We recognize here the same complaint that is made against computers: they are artificial contrivances, foreign to human life”.

Literacy is important not only because it is a way for people to learn speaking,reading,writing and listening, which are the four basic parts of living in this society. But it is also an ability for people to learn how to communicate with others and understand other people’s points. It is also a way to teach people deep understanding this society. Literacy can be found and used in any area in this world.