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Direct linkSandwall, Karin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This article presents a case study of a student involved in language learning at a work placement, as part of the basic Swedish language programme for adult immigrants, Svenska for invandrare (Sfi), in Gothenburg, Sweden. In accordance with the predominant economic agenda, this system is assumed to accelerate labour market entrance as well as…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Second Language Learning, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Download full textCárdenas Espitia, Carlos – HOW, 2010
This article describes an action research project in which the members of a basic English class for adults over 50 at a Colombian public university undertook the mission of discovering their potentialities as autonomous learners. By means of the reflective use of the language portfolio, the members of this course guided the planning and execution…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Student Empowerment, Action Research, Student Projects
Harnisch, Henriette; Swanton, Pauline – CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 2007
The conflicting pressures of supply and demand often raise significant challenges for providers of languages for adults. Numbers of learners are inconveniently patchy, trends in take-up often short lived and provision vulnerable due to funding pressures. This makes institution-based curriculum planning very precarious. The answer, it seems more…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Supply and Demand, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation
Peer reviewedCazabon, Benoit – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
The administrative and pedagogical difficulties of implementing a communicative approach in a university French program are outlined, including student language needs and expectations, program organization and content, and implementing appropriate situations and practices. The question of whether a student can attain bilingualism at this level…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Brown, J. Marvin – Online Submission, 2003
This paper tells the story of Dr. J. Marvin Brown's life as a linguist and physicist in his quest to develop the means for adult, second language fluency. This is a combination of his auto-biography, which provides the context, and the lessons he learned in his 50 years as linguist, and language teacher. Brown's experiences indicate that adults…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedBertoldi, Elizabeth; And Others – ELT Journal, 1988
The process of autonomization in ESL(English as a second language) classes of the Canadian government sensitizes students to English and to their performance in English. Students then establish priorities for their own skill development and determine how to reach their goals. A case study of one student in the Advanced Language Training Program is…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language)
