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Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Language skills are central to refugee integration and the availability of language courses could thus be a limiting factor. We explore how the most important provider of language courses in Germany, adult education centers (VHS), adapted their course supply to the refugee wave of 2015/2016. Our results highlight two channels through which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Refugees, Social Integration
Cindy Peña – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of my study was to document the educational experiences of adult "mexicana" immigrants and their "convivencia" with others in public spaces. This study consequently addressed the interdisciplinary gap between adult education and Chicana feminist epistemology. I collected data through a "convivencia"…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Adults, Immigrants, Adult Students
Parrish, Betsy; Johnson, Kimberly – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2010
It has been estimated that of the nearly two million immigrants who enter the United States every year, nearly half have limited access to citizenship, job training, other postsecondary education, and jobs due to low literacy levels, limited formal schooling, and limited English language skills. Adult education programs serving this population can…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Adult Education
Williams, Don – Florida Adult Educator, 1971
Dade County, Florida, is developing seventy half hour programs in English as a Second Language to serve the thousands of adult Spanish speaking residents. (AN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Strategies
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Cuban, Sondra – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
A study of women migrant domestic workers in the USA and their reasons for participating and persisting in community-based literacy and ESOL programmes is presented. Case studies and themes were developed about the women's experiences of work life and how it connected to their programme participation. The findings revealed that the women had…
Descriptors: Service Occupations, Employed Women, Persistence, Community Programs
Trim, J. L. M. – Education and Culture, 1975
In order to promote the growth of mutual understanding and cooperation among the peoples of Europe as well as developing greater communicative skills for adults the Council for Cultural Cooperation has been working to help create on a European scale the conditions for effective language learning by adults. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Barrera-Vidal, Albert – Fremdsprachlicher Unterricht, 1971
Special issue devoted to foreign language instruction in adult education. (WB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, French, Language Instruction
Yaron, Kalman, Ed. – 1972
The essays in this collection describe some of the main aspects--theories, programs and practices--of adult education in Israel. The 22 essays are: "Problems and Objectives of Adult Education," by Elad Peled; "The Principle of Dialogue in Education," by Martin Buber; "The Jewish Tradition of Life-long Learning," by…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Learning
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Fox, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1978
A pilot radio series is described which is designed to reach Italian adult newcomers in Ontario who cannot or do not seek the formal education of the English as a second language class. It is assumed that the listener knows some English but does not know how to use it. (SW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Educational Media
Korosak, Maja, Ed. – 2001
This five-chapter booklet is a report on Lifelong Learning Week (LLW) 2000 in Slovenia, which included a celebration of the fifth anniversary of LLW and the first International Week--Festival of Learning. Chapter 1 contains one report, "LLW Has a Special Mission" (Olga Drofenik), and Chapter 2 contains these three speeches from the LLW…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Developed Nations
Fremed, Resa; And Others – Adult Leadership, 1974
A resource center of folios, supplies, charts, and a file cabinet has proved its value to a group of four teachers using Situational Reinforcement Methods to teach adult English as a second language. Through each teacher's contributions to the center, stimulus and variety are provided while meeting immediate student needs. (AG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, English (Second Language), Resource Centers
Niemi, John A. – 1971
The Finnish-Canadian Citizenship Project was organized to teach English to older Canadians of Finnish descent in British Columbia. The 24 enrollees had between one and ten years of formal schooling. The Finnish Canadians use a dialect of English words with Finnish pronunciations that must be unlearned in order to learn English. The students…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language)
Kalfus, Richard – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
A description of the adult education and senior citizens programs in French, Spanish and German at a community college in Missouri. The courses, which fill both an educational and social need, run at capacity enrollment. The program serves the community and is of great interest to the instructors. (AMH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, College Language Programs, Community Colleges
Strasheim, Lorraine A. – 1975
The concept of lifelong learning is discussed, stressing the need to view education not as a finite period, but as a process that continues beyond years of formal schooling. Part of this shift in focus involves recognizing a new meaning for "school," and realizing that education may take place in union halls, management retreats, museums,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Language Instruction
Schrand, Heinrich – Fremdsprachlicher Unterricht, 1971
Special issue devoted to foreign language instruction in adult education. (WB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, English (Second Language), Evening Programs
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