enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cultural literacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_literacy

    Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper (the ability to read and write letters). A literate reader knows the object-language's alphabet, grammar, and a sufficient set of vocabulary; a culturally literate person knows a given culture's signs and symbols , including its language, particular dialectic , stories, [ 1 ] entertainment ...

  3. Magyarization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarization

    Magyarization (UK: / ˌ m æ dʒ ər aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / US: / ˌ m ɑː dʒ ər ɪ-/, also Hungarianization; Hungarian: magyarosítás [ˈmɒɟɒroʃiːtaːʃ]), after "Magyar"—the Hungarian autonym—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non-Hungarian nationals living in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adopted the Hungarian national ...

  4. Literacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_and_writing

    Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...

  5. E. D. Hirsch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Hirsch

    Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. [2] Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."

  6. Category:Literacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literacy

    العربية; বাংলা; Български; Bosanski; Català; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara; فارسی; Français; Frysk; Gaeilge; 한국어

  7. List of World Heritage Sites in Hungary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage...

    1063; iii, v (cultural) Tokaj Wine Region is located in the hills of north eastern Hungary. It was formally established in 1737 by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, though the documented wine production dates to 1561. It is a cultural landscape linked to the production of the Tokaji wines, with vineyards, farms, villages, small towns, and wine ...

  8. Literacy in the New Media Age - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_New_Media_Age

    World Literacy Rates Map. Seeing writing and reading as a "meaning making process" [2] that individuals and groups use to share knowledge and ideas in a physical form, Kress connected the prevalence of wring and literacy in cultures as connected to other social and cultural changes such as economic, social and the prevalence of technology and invention.

  9. Culture of Hungary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Hungary

    "Erre csörög a dió, arra meg a mogyoró" is one of the most famous Magyar children's games. Ulti is one of the most famous card games played by a 32-card set so-called: "Magyar kártya", exactly: "Tell-Karte" with German decks. Button football is a tabletop game which is known in Europe, typically in Hungary.