No.2

What is literacy? This question seems so sophisticated to answer. But I can confidently assert that literacy is not really far from everyone. And we all experienced a process of keeping in touch with literacy all the time.

For me, when I was a student in China, I learned Chinese characters since i was in elementary school which is the beginning of the exploration of the whole. First, we learned ancient Chinese poems and recited them. The grammar and the sentence structures are quite different from modern Chinese. But the most interesting is that you have to understand every word's meaning and then you can catch the poet's feelings whether his is delighted or despaired.

Although the dictionary says that literacy is a process of learning how to write and read. But i think the most important stuff is the message author hopes to pass.

Also, when I began to learn my second language which is absolutely English, I found that literacy was truly not only the simple process of learning to write and read articles. Since sometimes you don't have to understand every word in the passage to comprehend the meaning of the whole passage, it is kind of a unconscious program that  you can find the relationship between some words and then come out the ambiguous meaning of the vocabularies that you don't know. Likewise, I found that it takes less time if i read the text without looking every strange word in the passage than I consulate the dictionary whenever i got a new word i don't understand. 

Just as the author advocates, literacy involves a set of cognitive skills and a set of practice. And that is because that the experience helps us to understand the world better and widen our horizon, which leads to a deeper recognition of the whole world out-look. That is, the more you know about the world you live, the easier you are capable of gaining messages in the surrounding.

Therefore, i believe that literacy is not only the process of simply reading and writing texts, but the procedure of comprehending, critical thinking and acquiring new messages and information!