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Christiane Petrin Lambert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As student enrollment in colleges across the United States continues to diversify, teaching and learning practices must keep pace with demographic shifts. The growing majority of today's college student body, dubbed post-traditional learners, is older, racially and ethnically diverse, more experienced in work and life, and stretched by competing…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Evaluation, Student Motivation, Reentry Students
Catherine A. Cherrstrom; Carrie J. Boden; Todd Sherron – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
This study examined nontraditional students using linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) of their reflective writing assignments. Participants included 364 adult students enrolled in a degree completion program. Data comprised a multiweek reflective writing assignment and demographic data, linguistically and statistically analyzed. The study…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Credits, Prior Learning, Logical Thinking
Hägg, Gustav; Kurczewska, Agnieszka – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to build on current discussions about the need for and role of guidance in learning and teaching, as well as to theoretically develop its specifics to further advance our scholarly understanding of how to structure and enhance entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper takes a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Developmental Psychology
Hershner, Jessa R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The increase in population of nontraditional adult learners paired with a demand for multisensory learning created a need for further research in best pedagogy in higher education. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the central question on how the integration of music, lyrics, or music videos into higher education…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Multiple Intelligences
Koyak, Yasemin; Üstünel, Eda – Online Submission, 2019
This study aims to investigate viewpoints of the adult learners about the effects of the recorded motivational videos. The study was applied to twelve adult learners between the months of March and May in spring semester of 2019, at Mugla Sitki Koçman University. As to the research design, explanatory mixed methods design was implemented. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Student Attitudes
Luke, Douglas; Justice, Madeline – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2016
Adult enrollment in higher education institutions has grown significantly during the last decade, with students aged 25 and older attending 4-year institutions at higher rates than before. In the 21st century, few can improve their socioeconomic status or advance professionally without higher education. Colleges and universities must consider this…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Business Administration Education, Accounting, Finance Occupations
Torres, Julio; Serafini, Ellen J. – Hispania, 2016
Scholars of task-based language teaching (TBLT) advocate for the identification of learners' communicative needs to inform syllabus design, particularly in language for specific purposes contexts (e.g., Long 2015). However, little research has applied TBLT principles in designing Spanish for specific purposes curricula. Moreover, despite the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Languages for Special Purposes
Kormos, Judit; Csizér, Kata – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
Autonomous learning and effective self-regulatory strategies are increasingly important in foreign language learning; without these, students might not be able to exploit learning opportunities outside language classrooms. This study investigated the influence of motivational factors and self-regulatory strategies on autonomous learning behavior.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Independent Study, Role, Learning Motivation
Schwartz, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners of foreign languages experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Adult Students
Poulshock, Joseph – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
For this research, learners did extensive graded reading (EGR) with traditional graded readers, and they also interacted with short graded stories in the liberal arts and sciences (LAS). This study describes the purpose and format of the LAS stories used by hundreds of university students and adult learners in Japan. It summarizes the results of…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students