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Tour, Ekaterina; Creely, Edwin; Waterhouse, Peter; Pham, Xuan; Henderson, Michael; Wallace, Mary – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Digital literacies are critical for adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds as they settle in a new country. However, institutions, leaders, and teachers often feel uncertain about how to teach digital literacies. Using the notions of digital literacy practices and assemblages, this article reports on a qualitative case study and explores how…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Land Settlement, Adults, Migrants
Rizgar Qasim Mahmood – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study explores ESL learners' perceptions of using high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) through YouGlish to improve pronunciation skills. Data were collected through an online questionnaire completed by 70 upper-intermediate level ESL learners and semistructured interviews with 20 learners. The collected data were analyzed statistically…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Phonetics
Kamisli, Merih Ugural – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore adult immigrant learners' perspectives and motivations for participating in an ESL program through the lens of McClusky's Theory of Margin. Nine adult immigrant ESL students were interviewed about their learning experiences. Creswell's (1994) systematic process informed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Tetiana Bogachenko; Rachel Burke; Yi Zhang; Qian Gong – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper explores the use of Google Translate (GT) by displaced people (DPs) from Ukraine in Australia and English language educators supporting learners from refugee backgrounds in the context of decolonizing language learning. The survey and interviews with DP participants revealed that GT provides them with a sense of confidence and freedom,…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Learning
Susana A. Eisenchlas; Kelly Shoecraft – Student Success, 2024
This practice report describes a 12-week stand-alone course designed to address the challenges university students face in foreign language classes. Adopting principles of transformative language learning, course content, activities and resources were designed and implemented to dispel myths and preconceptions regarding language instruction,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cárdenas-Claros, Mónica Stella – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This paper reports the results of three independent qualitative case studies that examined interactions with feedback as L2 listeners worked in self-regulated environments. Data on high-intermediate learners of English were collected from case studies conducted in Australia, Colombia and Chile. Results show that L2 listeners across case studies…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Palmieri, Christiana – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This paper presents the findings from a study that examines the motivations of adult Australians of non-Italian origin to learn Italian in continuing education contexts in Sydney. The study embraces a view of motivation as a multifaceted phenomenon that is produced in a social environment through the interaction between the second language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Well Being, Adult Learning
Ollis, Tracey; Starr, Karen; Ryan, Cheryl; Harrison, Ursula – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
Neighbourhood Houses in Australia are spaces of education and learning that cater to and work with adult learners across a lifespan. They are known as fourth sector education providers in the Adult and Community Education (ACE) sector. With a history spanning nearly 45 years, Neighbourhood Houses provide vital education opportunities for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Community Centers, Adult Education
Ahmad, Kham Sila; Sudweeks, Fay; Armarego, Jocelyn – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2015
This paper reports on a case study of a group of six non-native English speaking migrant women's experiences learning English vocabulary in a mobile assisted language learning (MALL) environment at a small community centre in Western Australia. A sociocultural approach to learning vocabulary was adopted in designing the MALL lessons that the women…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Females, Vocabulary
Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Improvement in second-language (L2) perception has been posited to occur early in L2 learning when the L2 vocabulary is still small, whereas a large L2 vocabulary curtails perceptual learning (the perceptual assimilation model for SLA [PAM-L2]; Best & Tyler, 2007). This proposition is extended by suggesting that early L2 lexical development…
Descriptors: Vowels, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Cruickshank, Ken – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Teachers and learners can hold differing ideas about language and goals for language learning which are then played out in classroom interactions. Constructions of what counts as language and learning impact on learner engagement and identity and the outcomes of language learning. This study analyses a researcher's account of the learning of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Centered Curriculum, Self Concept
Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
Adult second-language (L2) learners' perception of L2 phonetic segments is influenced by first-language phonological and phonetic properties. It was recently proposed that L2 vocabulary size in adult learners is related to changes in L2 perception (perceptual assimilation model), analogous to the emergence of first-language phonological function…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Vowels, Pronunciation, Adult Learning

Brandie, Maximillian – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teacher's Association, 1981
Discusses the problems of the adult second language learner. The decline in interest among adolescents in language learning is reflected by the number of adult language learners. Problems ensue, however, from the unique classroom situation, which is not conducive to the development of communicative competence. (PJM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Purvis, Don – 1996
The report details results of a research project to monitor and map the literacy development of three learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) studying in an Australian English program for adult migrants. The objective was to gain a longitudinal picture of their reading and writing development over a period of nine months. Five additional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, English (Second Language)
Ellis, Elizabeth M. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
English as a second language (ESL) is taught in Australia to adult learners of mixed language backgrounds through the medium of English, and there is currently no requirement that ESL teachers speak another language. This paper reports on a study which asked what advantages there may be for ESL teachers to have proficiency in two or more…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Monolingualism
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