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Direct linkStojanovic, Maja – Adult Learning, 2022
Using a personal narrative approach, I examine my experiences with teaching English to adults from a Balkan country. As I focus on understanding my teaching experiences, I frame my analysis through adult education theory to understand my role as an adult educator. The significance of this narrative comes from its focus on practice as I highlight…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Waterhouse, Monica – Language and Education, 2021
This article describes research exploring the potential of arts-based, affective pedagogy to enact the dual mandate of second language programs for adult newcomers to Canada: facilitating official language learning and social integration. Deleuze-Guattarian affect theory informs the study framing both research and pedagogical practices as effects…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Juvonen, Päivi, Ed.; Källkvist, Marie, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
With increasing mobility of people across the world, there is a pressing need to develop evidence-based teaching practices that lead to high-quality education, which serves the needs of inclusive societies and social and epistemic justice. This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study research across a range of educational contexts,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Language Usage
Smits, Tom F. H.; Janssenswillen, Paul – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2020
Socio-political and demographic developments in Western Europe make diversity and multiculturalism a relevant line of research and emerging topic in education sciences. This paper discusses a case study that investigates Belgian pre-service teachers' attitudes towards ethnic diversity in their classrooms, how their teaching caters to student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Adult Education, Immigrants
Spaleny, Eugen – IRAL, 1969
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cybernetics, Educational Theories, Information Theory
Download full textBurt, Miriam; Peyton, Joy Kreeft; Adams, Rebecca – 2003
This book summarizes the research on adult English language learners (ELLs) reading English, offering English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers and administrators suggestions for instruction and noting areas where further research is needed. It is based on an annotated bibliography of research on reading development for adult learners of English…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Long, Huey B.; And Others – 1990
Selected papers presented in this book are: "Changing Concepts of Self-Direction in Learning" (Long); "The Transition from Learner-Control to Autodidaxy: More than Meets the Eye" (Candy); "Self-Directed Learning and the Theory of Adult Education" (Jarvis); "On the Theme and Variations of Self-Directed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Distance Education, Educational Practices
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
