Analysis of 119 questionnaires showed that adult learners preferred an eclectic theoretical approach to teaching and learning, endorsed learning by insight, and favored instruction combining lecture and discussion. These results were similar for males and females, graduates and undergraduates, and three age groups (20-40, 41-60, and 61 and older).…

Argues that adult literacy instruction should develop slowly over time and begin in the expressive and poetic discourse modes. (HOD)

Suggests that effective staff development involves a process that asks basic questions about the learner; about aims, goals, and objectives; about content; and about learning activities. (HOD)

Considers the nature and motivational drives of the adult learner and some of the reasons he begins and continues in a renewed educational adventure. (HD)

The intermediate competence of adult second language learners is qualitatively different from native speaker competence. Learning strategies are constants in the diachronic modifications of learner competence. A study of the acquisition of interrogatives in French reveals limited strategies and the heterogeneity of linguistic models needed to…

Recent trends in the adult education movement are reviewed and some suggestions of research reports for further reading are offered. Statistics are included regarding age, race, socioeconomic status, educational level, sex, and rural/urban areas. (LBH)

Discusses the results of the administration of the SLOPE test, a measure of oral production, to 66 adult speakers of English as a second language. (Author/RM)

This book is a resource for adult education teachers who want to build and strengthen adults' reading skills. It aims first to build background knowledge about reading and scientifically based reading instruction, but the focus is in applying the research on modeling thinking, planning, and problem solving in the context of fictional adult…

Building on a broad concept of workplace wellbeing, this paper suggests a cohesive framework for the research and practice of workplace learning and development of human resources and proposes that synergies between these fields should be better acknowledged. There are three major concerns behind the proposition: a taken-for-granted approach to…

Why do some of adult learners successfully accomplish their learning while the others drop out? This has been an important question in the field of adult learning. For a long time researchers have been exploring this subject around learning barriers as well as motivations. Not until lately did some of the adult and distance scholars start to pay…

In this report, deliberately used is a range of terms to talk about the use of information and communication technologies. The terms include electronic literacy, digital literacy, technological literacy, technoliteracy, multimodal literacies and multiliteracies. There is no argument that the terms are interchangeable, even though they are often…

The 2005 National Adult Learners Satisfaction-Priorities Report presents the responses to the Adult Learner Inventory (ALI) of 20,466 students from 45 institutions, including four-year private and public, and two-year community colleges. The results include adult learner responses over a three-year time period, from 2002 through 2005. Highlights…

This brief describes how literacy in the first language (L1) can affect the acquisition of reading skills in English, examining ways that instruction should be developed. It explains that learning to read is especially difficult for adults learning to read in a second language. According to the research, all English language learners (ELLs),…

A theoretical model for collaborative inquiry as a research methodology in adult education has been proposed. The model, which likens collaborative inquiry to the process of organic gardening, depicts a sphere in motion where the cycles of collaborative inquiry revolve in continuous motion. In the center of the sphere is a collaborative self that…

This investigation examined whether the professional trainers could benefit from a needs analysis course in which real cases from various organizations were used and all the learning activities and materials were geared closely to the learning expectations and preferences of adults. Specifically, this study attempted to find out whether the use of…