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Direct linkDuncan, Sam – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
This article presents the results of a qualitative study into how adult literacy learners perceive reading. Individual interviews and focus groups were used to ask 37 adult literacy learners at a London further education college what reading is. It follows a grounded theory approach to build a model, or narrative, of reading in the form of six…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Marton, Ference; Saljo, Roger – 1979
Structural reading difficulty of argumentative prose (text with an underlying message or superordinate principle), is related to the reader's approach to reading and learning. Ninety Swedish teenagers and adults with varying levels of formal education, were divided into three groups, based on their own descriptions of reading and learning: deep…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Schemes
