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Tour, Ekaterina; Creely, Edwin; Waterhouse, Peter – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
A strength-based approach to teaching digital literacies can advance language education for adults from refugee and migrant backgrounds, preparing them for life in a new country. This article draws on a 6-month ethnographic study at an adult English language center in Australia and explores teachers' perspectives and practices related to teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Migrant Adult Education
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Murray, Denise E.; McPherson, Pam – Language Teaching Research, 2006
Research has found that text reading and Web reading, while sharing some similarities, require a different balance of strategies. Adult language learners, especially those with limited previous experience with the Web, may therefore need explicit, scaffolded instruction in order to read the Web. This article reports on teacher action research and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Internet
Glenn, Marie; D'Agostino, Debra, Ed. – New Media Consortium, 2008
On October 20, 2008, the New Media Consortium announced the release of a white paper produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. This paper reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education to gain deeper insight into the wider impact of technology…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Consortia, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education
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Develotte, Christine; Mangenot, Francois; Zourou, Katerina – ReCALL, 2005
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a task-oriented collaborative learning (and training) experimental project that was carried out with future language teachers. More specifically, a class of sixteen French students enrolled in a Masters of Education course were asked to create multimedia resources for a group of Australian…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Computer Literacy, French, Cooperative Learning
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers