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Kennedy, Katherine; Roeder, Stephanie – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1976
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach, Language Skills
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Richardson, Judy S. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1981
Discusses the language experience approach (LEA) to teaching adults to read. LEA capitalizes on the adult's rich experience and advanced learning and speaking skills. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Goudreau, Nancy – Lifelong Learning, 1987
Presents three tenets from the research for adult literacy instruction: (1) improvement in one literacy skill should mirror improvement in others; (2) instructors should facilitate, not control, learning; and (3) students should be able to transfer classroom learning to their daily language encounters. Includes ideas for application. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach, Program Improvement
Milligan, Barbara – Australian Journal of Reading, 1982
Describes several approaches used in trying to teach an adult to learn to read over a period of several years, including the approach that was successful (language experience) because the student was highly motivated to write. (JM)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Language Experience Approach, Learning Motivation
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Rigg, Pat; Taylor, Liz – English Journal, 1979
Presents the case history of an adult nonreader taught to read through the language experience approach, rereading, retelling, assisted reading, and sustained silent reading. (DD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Case Studies
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Purcell-Gates, Victoria – Journal of Reading, 1993
Describes and analyzes how an Urban Appalachian woman who could not read or write progressed to functional levels when instruction involved her in reading her own language. Argues that educators who failed to acknowledge her language as an integral aspect of her as a learner may have denied her previous access to literacy. (SR)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Functional Literacy
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Pedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – Reading Improvement, 1990
Presents a last resort technique for teaching reading to adolescent and adult illiterates. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults
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Wales, M. Lynn – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes how a language experience approach was used in a workplace literacy program for adult immigrant railroad workers in Australia. Describes how the workshop built on participants' developed oral skills and life experience to create texts that were relevant, interesting, and comprehensible to these learners. (SR)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Foreign Countries
Non-Traditional Employment for Women (NEW), New York, NY. – 1987
The stories, essays, poems, and anecdotes in this booklet were written by students attending community-based literacy classes and they reflect the students' varied lives and experiences. Many of these pieces are appropriate for adult beginning readers and may encourage students to write their own stories that in turn may be read by others. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Language Experience Approach
Lifelong Learning, 1983
The purpose of this document is to provide a step-by-step outline of the language experience approach. It first explains this technique for teaching both words and sentences to beginning readers. Steps are outlined first for teaching words, then for teaching sentences. What to do and what to say is suggested for each step. Teaching words includes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
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Davidson, Jane L.; Wheat, Thomas E. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Discusses illiterate and semiliterate adults who want to become literate to enjoy a more satisfactory quality of life. Describes their life experiences and provides examples of effective instruction methods based on the language experience approach, including dictation, word banks, journal writing, individualized and assisted reading, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Illiteracy
Jones, Edward V. – Lifelong Learning, 1986
Because reading is first and foremost a language comprehension process focusing on the visual form of spoken language, such teaching strategies as language experience and assisted reading have much to offer beginning readers. These techniques have been slow to become accepted by many adult literacy instructors; however, the two strategies,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Keefe, Donald; Meyer, Valerie – 1988
The Literacy Prescription Project has served 250 clients in Illinois by providing individualized instruction and complete diagnostic reports--developing four profiles of adult disabled readers who can be treated with associated instructional techniques. Profile One adults cannot read the simplest pre-primer text and can only recognize a few words…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Instructional Improvement
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Wangberg, Elaine G.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes the Adult Basic Word List, a resource that can be used by illiterate adult learners for a quick spelling reference as well as by teachers and other curriculum developers for lesson and material design. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Clarke, Mallory – 1989
This document consists of eight sections. The first section contains the mission statement of the Goodwill Literacy program, a description of the program, statistics on literacy, and the answers to questions tutors are commonly asked. Section 2 contains statements from students in the program obtained in February 1988, a description of students in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Functional Literacy
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