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Johnson, Michele K. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
way', iskwíst, "my name is", S?ímla?xw, and I am from Penticton BC, Canada. kn sqilxw. I am a Syilx (Okanagan, Interior Salish) adult language learner. My cohort and I are midway in our language transformation to become proficient speakers. Our names are Prasát, S?ímla?xw, C'?r?tups, X?wnámx?wnam, Sta?qwálqs, and our Elder, S?amtíc'a?.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Canada Natives
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Teruya, Kazuhiro – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
The paper illustrates grammar as a meaning-making resource for early intermediate to advanced adult learners. It focuses on the environment of clause complexing, where different functions, such as Subject and Theme, are unified to construct a rhetorically oriented language logic. The paper suggests that learners' awareness of this logic offers a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Logical Thinking, Adult Basic Education
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Scheffler, Pawel – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2008
Learning a language in a natural way is normally understood to involve the development of implicit knowledge of that language. The acquisition of such knowledge takes place through communication and is driven by learner-internal mechanisms which cannot be directly influenced by formal instruction. In the case of foreign or second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Adult Learning, Learning Processes, Second Language Instruction
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Gourgey, Annette F.; Davis, Kevin; Lane, Linda; Smith, Lonna – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 1997
Presents a case study of an adult student preparing for her first year of college through a writing course and work in a writing workshop. Explains complicating circumstances in the student's life. Presents four professional responses commenting on the difficulties of the situation and possible solutions. (TB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Grammar
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Wilson, Eve – Computers & Education, 1994
Discusses the need to provide learner-directed computer-assisted language learning (CALL) for mature students to perfect their English. Topics addressed include expert procedural knowledge, including lexical, grammatical, and discourse skills; and expert domain knowledge, including dictionaries and thesauri, tagged corpora, and discipline-specific…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dictionaries
Mukattash, Lewis – IRAL, 1986
Examines the role and significance of systematic error correction and explicit grammatical explanation in adult foreign language education. The type and nature of certain grammatical errors which are characteristic of the interlanguage of Arab learners of English as a second language and which seem insusceptible to defossilization are…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Arabic, Arabs, Code Switching (Language)