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Elena Dupuis – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2024
English as an additional language (EAL) adult literacy learners have special needs and unique characteristics. The various challenges they face include decoding, comprehending, and developing basic skills for reading and writing. At the same time, it is extremely important to understand EAL adult literacy programming, as the right approaches for…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Literacy, Student Needs, Student Characteristics
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Kempster, Jemima Rillera – TESOL in Context, 2023
Studies on the role of digital technology in teaching and learning English tend to focus on secondary or higher education contexts and/or with literate or educated students. The recent global pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to advance digital equity and inclusion for adult learners with limited education and literacy. Despite their basic…
Descriptors: Poetry, Information Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chung, HeeJae – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Learning a language is a lifelong process and requires motivation, patience, a great deal of effort to continuously observe, reflect, and apply the acquired knowledge and skills in practice. Building on an experiential learning approach to support lifelong learning offers a wide range of ways in which instructors can create and deliver engaging…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Weintraub, Lynne – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Older adults bring considerable experience and knowledge to the table, and many are already proficient in several languages, they just need to add English to their repertoire. The article describes different challenges that older English learners face and provides examples and ideas for accommodations that ESL instructors can provide to support…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Shufflebarger, Amanda – TESOL Journal, 2022
Inspired by Gorski's (2016, 2019) framework of equity literacy and Gulliver and Thurrell's (2016, p. 57) call for more adult English as a second language (ESL) materials that feature the "uninterrupted voices" of immigrant/refugee students, this article proposes considerations for equity-minded adult ESL teachers. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Centered Learning
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Gee, Elisabeth; Gao, Yuchan – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
This article identifies and describes several different approaches to using game-mediated language learning (GML2), drawing in particular on Reinhardt and Sykes' (2012; 2014) framework and related literature. The article concludes with a brief discussion of potential applications to adult literacy and basic education settings and learners.
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning
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Stojanovic, Maja – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the importance of multilingual literacy in the 21st century and, specifically, how adult learners across the globe can develop multilingual literacy skills necessary for successful communication and global citizenship. The paper includes a theoretical (research background, definitions, critical framework) and a practical…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adult Learning, Multilingualism, Citizenship
Dominique Huck; Pascale Erhart – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
In France, including the region of Alsace, German is taught as a foreign language. German is also taught as the regional language in Alsace and is presented in the following two forms in the national education legislation: the Alemannic and Franconian dialects (known as Alsatian), and Standard German. The latter is considered the written form of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Second Language Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Marinelli, Christina; Davis, Caryn; Rivas, Isis – Journal of Museum Education, 2022
In 2020, the Brooklyn Museum Education Department, like many departments in museums across the globe, engaged in a reevaluation of its programs and priorities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we reassessed what responsive programming could and should look like for our audiences, the Adult Learning Division within Education decided to…
Descriptors: Museums, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Loanne Janin – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Following the current research in conversation analysis in the field of second language (L2) learning, the present study demonstrates that beginner-level adult learners actively contribute to vocabulary explanation sequences by mobilising multimodal resources including depictive gestures, gaze, and short verbal turns. The data consist of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, Learning Modalities
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Beccia, Ashley – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020
A fundamental distinction in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) is route versus rate of acquisition (or L2 development). While the former has traditionally referred to developmental sequences of learning, the latter denotes the speed with which learners progress through developmental trajectories (Muñoz, 2006). A second distinction at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude, Children, Adults
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RTI International, 2024
Adult education programs play a critical role in preparing immigrants and New Americans (multilingual learners) for employment by building English language skills and supporting workforce preparation and training. Addressing multilingual learners' economic integration needs, one of the three pillars of immigrant integration, along with civic and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation
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Case, Rod; Nall, Matthew – English Australia Journal, 2023
This article explores how research on the teaching of pragmatics, specifically as it relates to the use of explicit and implicit instruction, can serve as a guide for expanding the instruction of social language to immigrant students in Australia as well as other students. The curriculum and expectations from the Australian Migrant English Program…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Vanessa Piccoli – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, I present an interactional and multimodal analysis of video-recorded mental health consultations with asylum seekers in France. My main focus is on sequences in which the patients talk with the therapist about their learning of French, in some cases through the mediation of a professional interpreter. The particular context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Adrian Curaj; Cezar Hâj; Cosmin Holeab; Irina Geanta; Alina Iura; Dorin Cote?; Oana ?în?ar – European Union, 2025
The present report overseen by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) on behalf of the European Commission and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency as part of the contract for the implementation of the European Digital Education Hub, is the third report in a series…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Electronic Learning, Educational Practices
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