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Leveraging Data to Ensure Equitable and Effective Adult Skills Programming for Immigrants. Issue Brief
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Jacob Hofstetter; Margie McHugh – Migration Policy Institute, 2023
One in every six adults in the United States is an immigrant. These immigrant adults contribute to the vitality of local communities and economies across the country, but many also face barriers to integration and economic mobility, including limited English proficiency, varied levels of formal education, and persistent employment in low-wage…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adult Education, Equal Education, Job Skills
The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners®: Adult Education and Workforce Development. The 6 Principles
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Hellman, Andrea B.; Harris, Kathy; Wilbur, Amea – TESOL Press, 2019
TESOL International Association has defined a core set of principles for the exemplary teaching and learning of English as a new language. This exciting new book applies these principles to adults learning English in adult education and workforce development settings. The 6 Principles and their recommended practices are targets of teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vignettes
English Plus Integration: Shifting the Instructional Paradigm for Immigrant Adult Learners to Support Integration Success. Policy Brief
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McHugh, Margie; Doxsee, Catrina – Migration Policy Institute, 2018
For the past 50 years, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes provided through state adult education systems have been the primary means of meeting English acquisition for immigrants and refugees, and, to a limited extent, their integration needs. Yet these systems meet only a fraction of the total need for all adult education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
Testimony of Morton Bahr for the National Commission on Adult Literacy to the House Subcommittee on Education and Labor
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Bahr, Morton – Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2009
It is no secret that America is at risk of losing its place as a world leader in education. Some 88 million adults in America need help with their English as a Second Language (ESL) and basic skills, yet the nation is currently providing services to only 3 million people. The Commission on Adult Literacy calls for bold change at the state and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Hearings
Funding for English as a Second Language New Arrival Students. Schools Resourcing Taskforce Discussion Paper
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Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2006
At the 18th meeting of Ministerial Council on Education (MCEETYA) (12th-13th May 2005), Council urged the Australian Government to: (1) increase per capita assistance to ESL-NA students with high educational needs, in particular, refugees and humanitarian entrants; (2) provide a new per capita allocation so that specific ethnic and cultural issues…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Catholics, Foreign Countries, Language Skills
From Immigrant Enclave to Main Street, USA: The Social Policy Implications of Real-World Language Acquisition.
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Kissam, Ed – 1998
This paper presents findings from a state-sponsored study of the adult education needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) adults in California. The findings relate primarily to the situation of the over 2.3-million Spanish-speaking LEP adults, and within this population, to Mexican immigrants. Data were gathered in household surveys in three…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Demography, Educational Needs