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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
Mary Lukes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A significant positive correlation between higher metacognitive strategy use and better reading comprehension among native English-speaking children and adult learners of English as an additional language, consistently presented in the literature, has not been consistently or directly found among native English-speaking adult high school graduates…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Adult Students
Teneika L. Eve – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research on adult learners is ever evolving, and Knowles (1990) considered them to be a neglected species. Andragogy is the coined term that describes the manner in which adults learn. Adult learners are considered autonomous, experience-driven, and motivated. However, despite the strides made in adult learner literature, there still remain many…
Descriptors: Adults, Andragogy, Adult Learning, Multimedia Materials
Anas M. Faiz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction requires language teachers' role to change from being lecturers and controllers to facilitators and advisors. This shift requires students to have a high degree of learner autonomy. However, some teachers hesitate to promote learner autonomy. If they remain uncertain about the…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Arabic, Language Teachers, Facilitators (Individuals)
Erica N. Pettis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With the growing number of non-native English speakers, improving communication through direct vocabulary instruction (DVI) is important. The problem investigated in this study was that English as a second language (ESL) teachers were not using the strategy DVI, in the ESL classroom. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore ESL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Karami, Amirreza – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to investigate the effects of watching text-relevant video segments on reading comprehension of a culturally unfamiliar text when technical words are present or absent. Therefore, 44 adult English Language Learners (ELLs) with higher-intermediate to advanced English language…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Video Technology, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Joshua Buffington – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For many people, learning a second language as an adult is a challenging endeavor. Much interest in the study of adult second language learning has concerned the type of input that learners receive in their second language, with findings suggesting that second language learners are often exposed to a register of speech called 'foreigner talk' that…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Memory
Lori Yakawiak – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Formative assessment may assist teachers in identifying gaps in learning for individual students, thereby providing an avenue for teachers to adjust instruction accordingly. The problem addressed in this study is the insufficient achievement in literacy for English language learners. English language learners may have an even greater need for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis, Formative Evaluation
Walters, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academic success is contingent on multiple factors not the least of which is literacy and comprehension. However, research demonstrates that literacy and comprehension levels for traditional aged high secondary school students, as well as non-traditional adult college students threaten the academic success of these demographics. Identifying…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Seminars
Kyoko Kobayashi Hillman – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Research on advanced L2 adult learners and viable classroom instruction for them has become increasingly important along with increasing global connections. This study investigated the effects of different kinds of spoken input modification on listening comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning by 106 advanced Chinese speakers of Japanese…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Vocabulary Development, Japanese, Second Language Learning
Jennifer Coyne Dalzell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The US Census Bureau estimates large numbers of adult English Language Learners (ELLs) in the US, of which only a fraction is enrolled in Adult English for Speakers of Other Languages programs. Many of these learners are emergent readers in their first language (L1) making the development of literacy in a target language challenging, yet high…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Students, English Language Learners, Emergent Literacy
Azar, Nawal – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examined the effects of the inferencing reading strategy using a emotionally charged instruction for students from countries who do not speak English as their first language. A quasi-experimental study applying quantitative research methods to collect data from the two sections of Level four Reading classes during a ten week…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Adult Students
Quintana, César R. Bazo – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The vast majority of the studies concerning graphic organizer use for the improvement of reading comprehension have been carried out with first language (L1) learners. The recommendations to employ graphic organizers as part of reading instruction are frequently found in L1 reading literature (Blachowicz & Ogle, 2001; McKenna & Robinson,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lee, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
While elementary teachers encourage students to monitor their own reading and give them strategies to comprehend the text and build their vocabulary, middle school teachers stop modeling and encouraging these strategies but still expect that students are cognizant of metacognition and strategies. As a result, more students are entering college…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Self Efficacy
Reda, Patricia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A southeastern elementary school evidenced many students with a consistent decrease in oral reading fluency (ORF) rates as the 2nd grade year progressed, leading to weakness in reading comprehension in the 3rd grade. Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, as students who merely decode words do not gain knowledge from the text.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
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