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Paulina Horbowicz; Marte Nordanger – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Drawing on recent scholarship integrating usage-based linguistics (UBL) and conversation analysis (CA) in the investigation of second language development, this paper reports on a microanalysis tracing one adult learner's recurring, increasingly frequent, and diverse use of the multiword expression "det er sant" (it/that is true) (DES)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Expressive Language, Interaction, Speech Communication
Oheróhskon Ryan DeCaire – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
This paper highlights Kanien'kéha (Mohawk language) "adult immersion" as an effective and expedient program structure for creating second-language (L2) speakers and argues that concentrated efforts to strengthen and expand adult immersion are essential in advancing Kanien'kéha revitalization. By conducting a comprehensive vitality…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Adult Education
Abbott, Marilyn L.; Lee, Kent K. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
We describe a longitudinal (5-year) researcher-supported initiative designed to strengthen the research-practice link (RPL) and serve as an effective form of situated professional learning and development (PLD) in adult second language programs. We facilitated the formation of and supported 9 professional reading groups of 6-12 instructors (N =…
Descriptors: Researchers, Faculty Development, Adult Education, Second Language Learning
Bonnie Veronico – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the reasons for low enrollments in a related teacher preparation program alongside seemingly high attrition rates among instructors in the field of teaching English to adults and determine if any solution could be found to encourage people to not only enter the field but persist in the career. A review of current…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Mobility, Adult Education, Second Language Instruction
Dominique Huck; Pascale Erhart – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
In France, including the region of Alsace, German is taught as a foreign language. German is also taught as the regional language in Alsace and is presented in the following two forms in the national education legislation: the Alemannic and Franconian dialects (known as Alsatian), and Standard German. The latter is considered the written form of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Second Language Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Andreas Nuottaniemi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Following substantial investments in battery production and fossil-free steel, a few select places in northern Sweden are currently undergoing rapid economic and cultural changes. The aim of this article is to explore the role language education plays for three different groups of (im)mobile subjects - refugees, labor migrants, and cosmopolitan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Economic Development, Migrant Workers
Maria N. Gravani; Bonnie Slade; Maria Brown; Larissa Jõgi; Carmel Borg – Prospects, 2024
This article discusses the findings of qualitative case-study research that looks at pedagogical contexts of adult education programs for migrants in Cyprus, Scotland, Malta, and Estonia. The goal of this research is to understand how Learner-Centered Education (LCE) is promoted within a human-rights framework and implemented as an approach to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Migrants, Student Centered Learning
Aine Ni Bhroin; Keith Morrison – Educational Gerontology, 2024
This article reports a case study of older adults learning English in China. It indicates how, founded on consequentialist ethics, risk analysis, and safeguarding, it was decided to use covert research, drawing on the confluence of risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk management, safeguarding, research ethics, and important contextual and cultural…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Nora Duggan; Ingela Holmström – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Disabled people encounter numerous barriers to accessibility and face discrimination and inequalities in their daily lives. The situation is even more complex for migrants with a disability, who have to learn how to navigate a new bureaucratic system. This study focuses on deaf adult migrants and the linguistic and bureaucratic challenges they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Adults, Adult Education
Biazar, Bahar – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2022
In this article, adult English language learning is historicized and situated within the context of globalization and empire building. The purpose of this article is to link adult English as a second language (ESL) learning with imperialism and globalization, but also reveal that there is great radical potential within spaces of adult ESL for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Global Approach
Carol Hoi Yee Lo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For decades, the majority of educational research has been preoccupied with understanding as a "product"--as various "learning achievements" and "subject mastery" to be measured and subsequently represented as statistics or test scores. This preoccupation is also observed in the field of second language education,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interaction
Anneleis Humphries; Gosia Klatt – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2025
As Australia's population becomes increasingly diverse, this paper examines how adult education can foster belonging, community, and empowerment for CALD learners -- a critical issue with broad societal implications. While Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) adult education aims to empower learners, this paper uncovers the complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences
Malessa, Eva – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2023
This exploratory mixed data study investigated the role of technology in adult migrant language and late literacy education in Finland. In addition to an online pre-pandemic survey targeted at Finnish language and literacy teachers, four inservice teachers were interviewed during the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020. With means of qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Adult Education, Literacy Education
Pickard, Amy – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
This essay describes the decline in the number of participants enrolled in federally-funded adult basic education (ABE), adult secondary education (ASE), and adult English Language (EL) programs. Enrollment data since 1965 indicate a steep and consistent downward trend in the number of adults enrolling in these programs since the 1990s.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Carmen Toscano-Fuentes; Analí Fernández-Corbacho; M.Carmen Fonseca-Mora – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Adult migrants need to attain proficiency in the language of their host society to fully integrate into those communities and lead meaningful lives. The concept of literacy, centred on reading and writing, has evolved to encompass multiliteracies, integrating linguistic, social, and digital aspects. This broader approach acknowledges that learners…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Research Reports, Immigrants