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Freire, Paulo – Harvard Educ Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Innovation, Language Experience Approach, Linguistics
Peer reviewedWangberg, Elaine G.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes the Adult Basic Word List, a resource that can be used by illiterate adult learners for a quick spelling reference as well as by teachers and other curriculum developers for lesson and material design. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Download full textRyan, John W., Ed. – Literacy Discussion, 1974
The topic of this review concerning international literacy is the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and his theories and methods for teaching illiterates to read by teaching them fewer than 20 three syllable words, reflective of their social condition, such as "Shanty-town" and "wages" ("favela" and "salario"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Cultural Awareness
Smith, Margaret; Dalheim, Zoe – 1990
Project READ had a two-fold purpose: to improve the reading levels of diagnosed learning disabled adults, and to investigate the following research questions: (1) which of three teaching approaches selected for this study is most effective for reading disabled adults? (2) what is effective assessment? and (3) how may the impact of reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Dyslexia
New Educational Projects, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1992
This document consists of a guide for teachers and tutors and four "readers" for adults. These readers are intended to eliminate the problems associated with book-centered, one-to-one tutoring, such as the following: (1) uninteresting, irrelevant materials focusing on single reading skills rather than reading as communication; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Basic Skills, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books
Gunter, Jock – 1972
This document describes a literacy project in rural Ecuador using a modified version of Sylvia Ashton Warner's language experience approach. This method allows learners to approach written culture on their own terms by learning words important to their life, then transferring these works to sentences and stories. The approach reduces the rural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Daily Living Skills
