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Direct linkPorras, Dehlly; Matthews, Robert – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
The authors present two experiences of assimilation, "melting-pot" and "salad-bowl" processes, their connections to the WASP framework of skin color, language, and religion, and their influences in the classroom. They focus on how fluency in the English language is the dominant assimilation factor for immigrant students and share their experiences…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Acculturation
Becker, Liza A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Adults who immigrate to the United States recognize the value of fluency in the dominant language as a bridge to social mobility in their new homeland. In California, many of them invest time and energy in noncredit English as a Second Language (ESL) programs offered within the community college system to gain communicative competence and enhance…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Mobility, Educational Background, Immigrants
Download full textKegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
The authors carefully followed for a year or more the inner experiences of learning and change of 41 ABE/ESOL (Adult Basic Education/English for Speakers of Other Languages) learners from all over the world. They were enrolled in three distinct U.S. programs (a community college, a family literacy site, and a workplace site), each oriented to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
How do ABE/ESOL (Adult Basic Education/English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs shape adult learners, and how do adult learners, in turn, shape their programs? Beyond the acquisition of important skills (such as greater fluency in the English language) what are the bigger internal meanings for adults of participating in ABE/ESOL…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
