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Karina Tachihara; Adele E. Goldberg – Language Learning, 2025
Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Sentences, Undergraduate Students
Sheridan Reilly; Lynn Sheridan; Elise van der Jagt – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
Pre-university mathematics enabling courses can potentially change adult learners' perceptions and beliefs around mathematics, enhance self-efficacy, personal confidence, motivation, and enable achievements that support future study and career goals. Enabling courses, however, often require highly individualised curricula and approaches that can…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Mathematics Instruction, Adult Learning, Self Esteem
Zi-Gang Ge; Qing Li – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The present study explores the impact of different levels of competition involved in gamified learning on adult e-learners' intrinsic motivation, learning engagement, and language learning performance. One hundred and twenty participants were evenly and randomly assigned to two groups. A gamified learning procedure with a higher level of…
Descriptors: Gamification, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Electronic Learning
Tomáš Karger; Jan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
This article re-evaluates the concept of participation in adult learning and education (ALE), introducing a novel framework based on Kelty's work on modes of participation. The article contends that investigations into ALE must venture beyond simplistic, one-dimensional approaches to participation that focus solely on participant numbers or hours…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Student Participation, Learner Engagement
Luo, Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The American Economy's Cities Index indicates that immigrants worldwide comprise 18% of Hawaii's population, or roughly 255,000 immigrants settling on the tropical paradise in 2018 . Of the total immigrants, more than 110,550 are not naturalized as US citizens, which means limited access to jobs and business leadership opportunities. Regardless of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Andragogy, Adult Learning
Clare Lee; John Morgan – Teacher Development, 2025
The adult participants in this study range in age from 20 to 50 years. They describe their remembered experiences of learning mathematics in both primary and secondary education. None of the participants achieved the qualifications in mathematics which would allow them access to higher education. They are now studying mathematics after many years…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Prior Learning, Memory
Fei Ping Por; Christina Sook Beng Ong; Siew Keow Ng; Arathai Din Eak – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: The psychological theory of self-determination postulated that gamification enhances learning engagement by intrinsically motivating learners to undertake tasks spontaneously. Gamification has then been integrated into adult learning as part of the initiative of learner-centred pedagogies to curb the low retention rates of adult learners…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Gamification, Adult Learning, Student Centered Learning
Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
Julita Pienkosz; Marta Petelewicz; Katarzyna Piotrowska – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2025
The paper examines the influence of cultural capital from one's family of origin on adult participation in education. International research confirms that factors such as education level, professional status, age, and attitudes significantly explain variations in adult learning. To explore inequalities in adult education participation further, the…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Cultural Capital, Adult Education, Equal Education
Stephen P. Gordon; Jovita M. Ross-Gordon – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2024
This article considers the potential benefits of integrating the knowledge base on adult learning with teacher inquiry. The first part of the article provides an overview of key concepts discussed in the literature on adult learning, including the characteristics of adult learners, self-directed learning, experiential learning, transformative…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Student Characteristics, Independent Study
Anna Zagrebina – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
Positive priming encourages adult immigrant students to become more involved in their learning activities and increases their chances of success in their host society. The use of priming effects in teaching adult immigrants, however, is not sufficiently explored in the educational literature. This article therefore fills this gap by presenting a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Immigrants
Annika Heuer; Luis Serratos-Sotelo; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
In this paper, we aim to understand how perceptions of adult learning and continued vocational education and training (CVET) are related to participation in these activities. Specifically, participation within the previous 12 months in different kinds of adult learning and CVET is analysed, distinguishing between (1) formal, (2) non-formal…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career and Technical Education, Foreign Countries
Fa Zhang; Yuyan Xia; Yu Wang; Jinglu Liu; Jie Xia; Chin-Chih Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Open universities can improve learning outcomes and overall satisfaction among adult learners by addressing and enhancing online learning motivation. By applying latent profile analysis (N = 494) and adult learner interviews (n = 16), this mixed methods study aimed to better understand adult learners' motivation profiles in online learning…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Learning Motivation
Kalpana Gupta – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which meditation practice can be used as an online pedagogical method based on adult learners' experiences with various forms of meditation practices. To arrive at this purpose, the researcher found it necessary to gather data about frequency of use, preferences, and related transformative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Biofeedback
Aquino, Katherine – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper was to explore the experiences of adult learners enrolled in a non-traditional undergraduate academic program. This project examined if students minimised their disability in the academic environment, thus not making use of institutionally available accommodations. Through an explanatory case study design, findings…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Adult Learning, Undergraduate Students, Nontraditional Education