Not really a site about literacy itself, it nevertheless is an interesting site for those interested in computer and hypertextual literacy: at this site you can download and read an entire monograph about computers in education, Schools, Teachers, Students, and Computers: a Cross-National Perspective. The book itself is a very interesting one incorporating a lot of truly international data, and it's fascinating to see how the concept of a printed hard copy of a book has been translated into the soft reality of the Web.
Homepage for the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy at the College of Education, Penn State University. Features that will interest you include a very good links page to other literacy-related sites, a description of institutional software, and publications that you can order.
The WWW presence of the International Reading Association (IRA), the largest literacy organization in the world. Has a lot of features worth checking out. Perhaps the most notable right now is the launching of the new on-line publication, Reading Online, and the information about the somewhat controversial standards that the IRA and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) co-published recently.
The website for the US government's National Institute for Literacy. This site is just one of the best for exploring literacy in all its forms. There is a searchable database that takes in other sites and an abundance of information about publications, events, literacy and education resources, and e-mail discussion forums.
This is the homepage of the National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities
Center (part of the National Institute for Literacy). It's interesting
how learning disabilities and disorders are considered a very serious and
common problem in native language literacy in the English-speaking countries
but how mainstream TESOL/ELT all but ignores them. This is a very good
place to start exploring LD.
All site descriptions provided by Charles Jannuzi (jannuzi@edu01.f-edu.fukui-u. ac.jp)