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Tode, Tomoko – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This case study investigates a migrant adult's identity work in playful talk occurring spontaneously in a classroom for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA). Based on 12 hours of video-recorded interactions among four learners and their teacher, I identified five playful episodes. This paper focuses on two episodes…
Descriptors: Adults, Migrants, Self Concept, Play
Linck, Jared A.; Hughes, Meredith M.; Campbell, Susan G.; Silbert, Noah H.; Tare, Medha; Jackson, Scott R.; Smith, Benjamin K.; Bunting, Michael F.; Doughty, Catherine J. – Language Learning, 2013
Few adult second language (L2) learners successfully attain high-level proficiency. Although decades of research on beginning to intermediate stages of L2 learning have identified a number of predictors of the rate of acquisition, little research has examined factors relevant to predicting very high levels of L2 proficiency. The current study,…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Durrant, Philip; Schmitt, Norbert – Second Language Research, 2010
Formulaic language is widely recognized to be of central importance to fluent and idiomatic language use. However, the mechanics of how formulaic language is acquired are not well understood. Some researchers (e.g. Nick Ellis) believe that the chunking inherent in formulaic language drives the language learning process. Others (e.g. Wray) claim…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Adults, Learning Processes
Hsu, Yung-chen – GED Testing Service, 2008
Health literacy is important for all adults. Because lower health literacy is associated with lower educational attainment, many adult basic and literacy education programs increasingly provide health education to low-literate adults to improve their health literacy. Using data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), this study…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Dropouts, Literacy Education, Health Education

Waggoner, Dorothy – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1981
The article presents some findings of the 1976 Survey of Income and Education in which the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau obtained information about the characteristics and educational status of the approximately 28 million people in this country with language backgrounds other than English. (NQA)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
Tuckett, Alan; Cara, Sue – 1999
The language competence of adults in Great Britain was examined in a national study involving interviews between April 28 and May 9, 1999, with a representative sample of 3,967 adults over the age of 16 years. Of those surveyed, 58% spoke only their mother tongue, 29% spoke one additional language, and 10% spoke two additional languages. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences