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Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
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James A. Bernauer; Richard G. Fuller; Alicia M. Cassels – Current Issues in Education, 2024
This article explores the transformation of courses among online, traditional, and hybrid modalities with a special focus on transforming an online course into a traditional classroom format. While there has been much written about transforming courses from traditional to online, especially as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has not…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Educational Change, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning
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Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Adult Learning, 2025
This article, a conceptual and theoretical piece, opens a window on "playful learning" as a philosophy of education and a suite of diverse pedagogical approaches, methods, and techniques. The paper criticizes the serious ambience of adult education with its high levels of instrumentalism and performativity. It argues for playful learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Play, Ideology, Adult Learning
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Kalpana Gupta – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which meditation practice can be used as an online pedagogical method based on adult learners' experiences with various forms of meditation practices. To arrive at this purpose, the researcher found it necessary to gather data about frequency of use, preferences, and related transformative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Biofeedback
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Diana Angélica Parra Pérez; Yuri Natali Sarmiento Salamanca; Jennyfer Paola Camargo Cely; María Catalina Caro-Torres; Aura María Estacio Barrios – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This study used sequential exploratory, mixed-method research that explored the influence of authentic tasks on adult language learners' interactions in e-forums. The participants belonged to a blended-flipped program of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). E-Forum posting in the course aimed at encouraging beginner learners to exchange…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Blended Learning
Marwa Abd Al Galil Helmy Abd Al Galil – Online Submission, 2024
The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of utilizing a program based on post-constructivism to develop adult learners' English language fluency. The study started with the literature review and previous studies handling post-constructivism and English language fluency. The researcher nominated a group of pre-intermediate to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Jacqueline Zammit – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
With the advancement of educational technologies, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tools, like online dictionaries, are essential for acquiring a second language, especially new vocabulary. There has been no empirical focus on the usage of "Gabra" online dictionary in learning Maltese, with a specific focus on international…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
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Garrett K. Hogan – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
In 1963, Howard Y. McClusky wrote the theory of margin, defining the personal ratio of power to load. Margin theory has been used to predict success; however, more research is needed to redevelop how this sixty-year-old theory is situated in the current environment. This grounded theory study examined the changes to margin by hybridization.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Prediction, Success, Theories
Region 17 Comprehensive Center, 2024
eLearning can be a powerful tool for state education agencies (SEAs) to effectively meet their training goals and support the diverse needs of busy educators. When designed, developed, and implemented effectively, eLearning can transform training content into engaging, impactful learning experiences. By considering various delivery methods,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, Outcomes of Education, Guides
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Zhang, Yuan; Taylor, Jonathan E. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Whether an adult is motivated or unmotivated to learn depends on the actual learning experience. To further our understanding of English as a second language (ESL) learners and their language learning experience, this paper delves into the intricate realm of learning resistance. Ultimately, we seek to provide a comprehensive perspective on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Roe, Lisa – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Service-Learning is a form of experiential learning where faculty integrate a service or community engagement component into academic coursework. Supported by a growing body of literature documenting the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students as a high-impact practice in the United States, the scholarship and practice of…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Service Learning, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
Yasmine Sedeek – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mastering the phonological aspects of a second language (L2) poses significant challenges for adult learners, often affecting their intelligibility in acquiring that language (Derwing, Munro, & Wiebe, 1998). McAllister (1997) has highlighted L2 learners' struggles in perceiving and producing novel segmental features, which is corroborated by…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Arabic
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Karen S. Acton – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
The education doctorate program fills an essential niche that allows practitioners to earn a doctorate and make a difference in educational practice and policy. However, critics claim EdD programs are failing to effectively prepare students. There has been a push for the reinvention of the EdD which includes improving EdD student confidence in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Teacher Education, Research Methodology, Student Research
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Xi Lin – Adult Learning, 2024
This qualitative study examines student learning experiences toward a student-developed case study activity for online discussion guided by a three-tier case method model. Forty-five students were recruited from four online adult education courses. Analysis of students' feedback shows that this activity leads to students' positive learning…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Adults, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Education, 2025
The present paper sought to offer a theoretical perspective on the social practice approach (SPA) in adult literacy since its conceptualization in the early 1980s. It aims to provide a holistic understanding of SPA by examining its objectives, development, and practical applications. The analysis highlights how the SPA differs from traditional…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Futures (of Society), Holistic Approach
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