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2nd Summit on reading: a nation of readers

Marie-Claude Girard

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(Posted January 20, 2011 08:45 )

Today starts at the Great Library the 2nd Summit on reading, two days of conferences and exchanges aimed at making Quebec and Canada a society of readers.

For two days, nearly 200 writers, scholars, booksellers, librarians, publishers, teachers, business leaders and other stakeholders in the book world will share their experiences of access to reading and discussing issues Literacy in this 2nd Summit on reading.

Among them, there are writers Antonine Maillet, John Ralston Saul, Rodney Saint-Eloi and children's authors Marie-Louise Gay, Quebec, and Jon Scieszka, the United States.

The ultimate goal: to give Canada a truly national reading campaign supported by the government. Before arriving there, the organizers wish to first educate the public and politicians about the importance of improving capacity and reading habits of Canadians to share the different experiences of access to reading conducted a across the country. The Summit of Montreal is the second in a series of three. The first was held in Toronto last year, the next will be held in Vancouver in 2012.

"The situation is critical that this is a highly developed society economically, but that is not fundamentally a society of readers. This is true for Quebec and English Canada. It remains with the absolute rate of illiteracy and functional very high, "said Jean-Francois Bouchard, editor at Bayard Canada and co-chair the Summit.

It should therefore not be carried away by the reading performance of young Canadians, at the last international survey of the Programme for International Student Assessment, in 2009, ranking 5th among 65 OECD countries. In Quebec, 800 000 people aged 16 to 65, or 1 adult in 6, have serious reading difficulties, according to a report by the Institute of Statistics published in 2006.

"We are a company that has reached modernity by many economic and mediated by television, some by reading, Mr. Bouchard advance. The practice of reading is the practice of development independent of personal thought. It is the development of decision that is at stake in a society where the flow of information has become a key case, the development of personal conscience, freedom of thought is very important. "

He noted that the mobilization is not easy "in a society whose comfortable life is relatively developed. This creates the illusion that part eventually, it can develop without it. "

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debates and conferences on young children and boys - who lag behind girls with regard to reading skills - the newcomers, indigenous and new technologies. A Chinese expert, Li Qingming, director of Nanshan School, affiliated to the China National Institute of Educational Research, will explain the nature of his work for 30 years to promote reading skills in all areas of study.

Tomorrow, the results of reading research conducted by the TD Bank, sponsor of the event will be announced by Craig Alexander, chief economist at the Financial Group.

"In Quebec, it is far from being ashamed of what we do, however, recalls Mr. Bouchard. This is certainly the Canadian province where there are as many initiatives organized. There are at least forty programs organized access to reading, not to mention everything that is done in local libraries. "

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