Author: Taewoong Kim
Publisher: Channel View Publications
ISBN: 1800412428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. Based on a study of a group of Mexican immigrants to the US, the author proposes that superación or ‘self-actualization’ is crucial to understanding the relative success of adult ESL learners. Learners’ decisions to drop out were not hasty or superficial but were based on a commonsense assessment concerning how the class might improve the quality of their lives. Those involved in delivering ESL to adult learners should stress the tangible, practical advantages that accrue with learning English, and at the same time strive to make instruction relevant.
Author: Taewoong Kim
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN: 9781800412415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular"--
Author: Trudy Smoke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317657047
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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The essays in this book focus on political strategies, pedagogical models, and community programs that enable adult ESL learners to become vital members of North American society. This is particularly important in our present time of contraction and downsizing in the education of non-native speakers. The authors represent a broad range of programs and perspectives, but they all have in common the goal of enabling both faculty and students to become full participants in our society and thereby to gain control over their futures. Readers of this book will develop an understanding of the ways in which innovative educators are creating strategies for maintaining language programs and services.
Author: Virginia P. Collier
Publisher: Bastos Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Malcolm S. Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000072916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 9th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include: Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. The addition of two new chapters on diversity and inclusion in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner. An updated supporting website. This website for the 9th edition of The Adult Learner will provide basic instructor aids. For each chapter, there will be a PowerPoint presentation, learning exercises, and added study questions. Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.
Author: American Vocational Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Yvonne S. Freeman
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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As in the original edition, the authors provide a readable explanation of second language teaching methodology supported by numerous classroom examples. In addition, the new edition includes detailed discussions and examples of EFL teaching as well as many scenarios from ESL classes.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Enrique T. Trueba
Publisher: Newbury House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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