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'It Wasn't Just Japanese': A Tertiary Language Programme to Help Students Prepare for the Next Stage of Life
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Maya Fujioka; Kristin Reimer; Eisuke Saito – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
The decline in foreign language learners in tertiary education is a concern in many countries. While factors influencing students' persistence in second language learning have been explored, there has been limited discussion on the potential of language programmes that develop students' self-formation alongside language learning. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tellers, Makers, and Holders of Stories: A Micro-Analytic Understanding of Students' Identity Work in Drama-Based Adult ESL Classrooms
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Kim, Won – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Despite a wide-spread pedagogical interest and scholarly conviction in the possibilities of educational drama for creating more contextually-situated, engaging, and multi-modal L2 learning experiences (Piazzoli, 2018; Stinson & Winston, 2011), there is scarce empirical evidence concerning what is actually taking place interactionally in L2…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Adult Education, Second Language Learning
Telling Stories of Violence in Adult ESL Classrooms: Disrupting Safe Spaces
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Waterhouse, Monica – TESL Canada Journal, 2016
This article develops a complex understanding of safe space in relation to adult refugee learners' oral literacy practice of telling stories of violent life experiences in English as a second language (ESL) classrooms. A rhizoanalytic approach brings theoretical and empirical elements into conversation to ask two questions. Can the exigencies of…
Descriptors: Violence, Adult Students, Story Telling, Qualitative Research
Examination of Factors That Promote Transformative Learning Experiences of College-Level Adult Learners of Foreign Languages
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Schwartz, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners of foreign languages experience transformative learning through educational and non-educational experiences. Mezirow's…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Adult Students
The Adult ESL Experience: Facilitating Perspective Transformation in the Classroom.
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King, Kathleen P. – Adult Basic Education, 2000
A survey of 208 adult learners of English as a second language and 24 follow-up interviews showed that 66.8% experienced transformation in their frames of reference and thinking about culture, language learning, and themselves. Learning activities that facilitated transformative learning included discussions, exercises, essays, assigned readings,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Attitude Change, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education. New Edition.
Wilson, Arthur L., Ed.; Hayes, Elisabeth R., Ed. – 2000
This handbook presents the perspectives of more than 60 leading authorities on the study and practice of adult and continuing education. The following are among the papers included: "A Selective History of Adult Education Handbooks" (A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes); "The Concept of Critically Reflective Practice" (Stephen D.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning