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Direct linkDerenowski, Marek – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book examines the unique characteristics of teaching foreign languages to senior learners. It discusses the potential age-related barriers and learning difficulties which may be encountered in senior foreign language education as well as solutions to overcome these challenges. The author describes the processes of human aging from different…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Older Adults, Adult Education, Barriers
Peer reviewedPannucci, Lynnette; Walmsley, Sean A. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
The learning difficulties of 23 adults were investigated in order to determine ways to better serve their literacy needs. These adults were all living in poverty, had less than eighth-grade literacy levels, and had failed to graduate from high school. The participants' records were examined and structured interviews were conducted with them; also,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Adults
Download full textWinters, Clyde A. – 1996
A study compared the effectiveness of the multisensory and auditory teaching methods on the promotion of memory among adults with learning problems. Subjects were 10 adult learners with learning problems, aged 19-31, from an adult basic education program in a large urban area. Two lists of nouns were prepared, each containing 10 words. The lists…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Aural Learning
Cooper, Richard – 1996
A project provided more than 800 adult educators in Pennsylvania with a wide range of staff development activities and instructional strategies for teaching students with learning differences and multilevel abilities in the same classroom. It established a model for staff development that built upon previous projects and used a variety of delivery…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Heterogeneous Grouping
Weisel, Laura Peltz – 1980
This paper attempts to provide information in response to the needs of educators of adults with learning problems. For the adult education teacher, information is offered on the nature of learning, information processing, problems that can be diagnosed, and strategies suitable for adults with learning problems. For the administrator, focus is…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Educational Diagnosis
Best, Gregory C.; And Others – 1977
This handbook on the adult learner and adult learning problems or disabilities is designed to serve as a practical tool for the Adult Basic Education instructor. It is divided into two main sections. Section 1 contains information concerning the nature of the adult learner. The first part deals with general characteristics of the adult learner and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Norris, Robert G. – 1977
Teachers of adults, if they are to be really effective, must be sensitive to the particular characteristics and needs of adult learners. Adults have many physiological, psychological, and social characteristics that are the result of normal aging. In determining which characteristics interfere with learning, it is found that all have an impact on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education
