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Yao, Chunlin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
The study reports the author's innovation of teaching climate education to adult learners in an English class using project-based learning (PBL). Over a whole semester in 2022, six topics related to climate change were taught and learned in a core curriculum tertiary English class in China. At the end of the semester, data showed a high level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Active Learning, Student Projects
Koyak, Yasemin; Üstünel, Eda – Online Submission, 2020
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: Video Technology, Handheld Devices, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
MacDonald, Kara; McCaw, Tatiana; Scheibner, Annette – CATESOL Journal, 2021
ELLs need to engage with topics and situations in the classroom that equip them with the social, professional and civic cultural skills to address real-life interactions for their present realities, as well as their future realities (American, 2009, Garett, 2005; Perez & Morrison, 2016). Teachers face the challenge of balancing conventional…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, English Language Learners, Situated Learning, Teaching Methods
España, Cristina; Soosaar, Reet – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2022
The implementation of the European Union's Erasmus Plus (E+) Program has resulted in the possibility of joint initiatives across-borders led by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), who can bring classroom practice closer to education as a key area for employability and prepare students for work and communication in multicultural and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Student Projects, English (Second Language)
Laidemitt, Heidi; DeMola, Sarah; Martin, Jaymee; Kelley, Caroline – CATESOL Journal, 2012
This article is written from the perspective of 4 current MA TESOL graduate students at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). These students have written about their experiences by incorporating their theoretical and pedagogical English language-teaching knowledge into the growth and maintenance of a community-based ESL program…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Graduate Students, Social Justice
Tims, Nereida Rodrigues – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study focus on Project-Based Learning (PBL) as an instructional approach that, among other important features, promotes hands-on meaningful learning for adult ESL learners and permits them to connect what they learn in the classroom to real life, along with opportunities to develop the four language skills in an integrated and contextualized…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Interviews
Cárdenas Espitia, Carlos – HOW, 2010
This article describes an action research project in which the members of a basic English class for adults over 50 at a Colombian public university undertook the mission of discovering their potentialities as autonomous learners. By means of the reflective use of the language portfolio, the members of this course guided the planning and execution…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Student Empowerment, Action Research, Student Projects
Rilling, Sarah, Ed.; Dantas-Whitney, Maria, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
Adult language learners have specific learning goals that reflect their lives within a global society, and adults negotiate multiple and changing identities throughout their personal, academic, and professional lives. Chapters in "Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners" highlight how teachers have the ability…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Photography, Student Projects