Descriptor
| Adult Basic Education | 6 |
| Adult Literacy | 6 |
| Foreign Countries | 6 |
| Literacy Education | 6 |
| Whole Language Approach | 6 |
| Adult Students | 4 |
| Teaching Methods | 4 |
| Adult Learning | 2 |
| Adult Reading Programs | 2 |
| Educational Practices | 2 |
| Educational Research | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Literacy/Alphabetisation | 1 |
Publication Type
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 2 |
| Multilingual/Bilingual… | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 2 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - Serials | 1 |
| Information Analyses | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 2 |
| Researchers | 1 |
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| Canada | 2 |
| Guyana | 1 |
| Taiwan | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textWhite, Joyce; Norton, Mary – 1991
This paper describes the whole language approach to literacy education in the context of teaching adults. Information is drawn from literature and from interviews with teachers and literacy students. Topics covered include the following: whole language--a framework, learning language, learning through language, learning about language, what people…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Needs
Winser, W. N. – 1992
In order to help adult readers with problems, it is necessary to develop an approach to teaching them that is sensitive to language and that makes explicit reference to the way language works to make meaning in texts. A language-based approach requires teachers to become more aware of the relatively invisible language system that lies behind the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
PDF pending restorationLiteracy/Alphabetisation, 1992
"Literacy/Alphabetisation" is the Journal of the Movement for Canadian Literacy. Each issue appears in an English version and a separate French version. This document consists of the four issues comprising Volume 15, with the French issue immediately following the corresponding English issue. Each issue begins with Notes from the Editor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Australian Council for Adult Literacy, Victoria. – 1992
This second of three volumes of the 1992 Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) Conference Papers includes 12 papers from workshops, with a national focus. The "Welcome Speech" (Marie Perrson) is followed by "Literacy: An Ecological View" (David Sless) that shares a view of literacy as an interdependent component in a much larger…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Correctional Education
Kerr, Hugo – 1995
This book examines the basic principles of the cognitive psychology of literacy and explains how insights gained from that theory can inform and improve reading, spelling, and writing instruction aimed at adults. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's eight chapters: the principles of cognitive psychology (the nervous system,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Andragogy
National-Louis Univ., Evanston, IL. – 1995
This document contains 33 papers from a conference on research in adult, continuing, and community education. Representative papers include the following: "Highlander Folk School: A Commune Based on Intellectual Property" (Keith B. Armstrong, Donna J. Martin); "Women, Welfare and Mandated Education: An Analysis of Single Mothers'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
