Adult Language Learning Insights Instructions And Implications

Author : Shamim Ali
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Adult students
ISBN : 9783640908806

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Adult Language Learning: Insights, Instructions And Implications by Shamim Ali Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad (English Department), course: Research Project, language: English, abstract: The present study aims to investigate, that age is not a detriment to language learning .As young students are biologically disposed to better second language learning, as well as given certain benefits such as lower self-monitor and affective filter, but at the same time adults are also not at a lower vantage point in L2 learning process. In the language learning program, adult learners bring with them certain advantages. Adults are better at understanding grammatical rules since they are aware of the rules and structures in their own language. [...] Especially in the areas of vocabulary and language structure, adults are actually better language learners than children. Adult learners have more highly developed cognitive systems, are able to make higher order associations and generalizations, and can integrate new language input with their already substantial learning experience. They also rely on long-term memory rather than the short-term memory function used by children and younger learners for rote learning. Adults have already developed learning strategies that have served them well in other contexts. They can use these strategies to their advantage in language learning. This research will suggest ways of dealing better with adult learners in their academic performance in the language class. The researchers' aim will be to investigate that they have potentials to become accomplished language learners with the advantage of more advanced cognitive development in the first language, and they integrate new language input with their already substantial learning experience. To prove her point of view the researcher will involve 10 teachers and 30 students of Diploma, Certificate and Foundation level at the Department of English (functional Courses) at National U

Author : Richard Roberts,Roger Kreuz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780262529808

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Becoming Fluent by Richard Roberts,Roger Kreuz Pdf

Forget everything you’ve heard about adult language learning: evidence from cognitive science and psychology prove we can learn foreign languages just as easily as children. An eye-opening study on how adult learners can master a foreign lanugage by drawing on skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do; they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children. Children appear to have only two advantages over adults in learning a language: they acquire a native accent more easily, and they do not suffer from self-defeating anxiety about learning a language. Adults, on the other hand, have the greater advantages—gained from experience—of an understanding of their own mental processes and knowing how to use language to do things. Adults have an especially advantageous grasp of pragmatics, the social use of language, and Roberts and Kreuz show how to leverage this metalinguistic ability in learning a new language. Learning a language takes effort. But if adult learners apply the tools acquired over a lifetime, it can be enjoyable and rewarding.

Author : John M. Norris,John McE. Davis,Veronika Timpe-Laughlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351863162

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Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners by John M. Norris,John McE. Davis,Veronika Timpe-Laughlin Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: Foundations for Designing Second Language Educational Experiences -- Part 1 Second Language Acquisition and the Language Learner -- 2 Second Language Learning Theories -- 3 Learner Individual Differences-Static -- 4 Learner Individual Differences-Dynamic -- Part 2 Second Language Instruction, Assessment, and Educational Design -- 5 Language Pedagogical Approaches -- 6 Teaching Language Skills -- 7 Assessment in Support of Language Learning and Teaching -- 8 Approaches to Curriculum and Materials Development for Language Education -- 9 Instructional Sequencing and Language Learning Progressions -- Part 3 Second Language Educational Innovation and Support -- 10 Localizing Language Education -- 11 Supporting Teachers in Utilizing Language Learning Materials -- 12 Monitoring and Improving Language Instruction -- 13 Implications for Technology-Mediated Language Learning and Instruction -- References and Suggested Readings -- Index

Author : Ekaterina Tour,Edwin Creely,Peter Waterhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000575583

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Enhancing Digital Literacies with Adult English Language Learners by Ekaterina Tour,Edwin Creely,Peter Waterhouse Pdf

Offering a new perspective on adult English language education, this book provides theoretical and practical insights into how digital literacies can be included in the learning programmes for newly arrived adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Enhancing Digital Literacies with Adult English Language Learners takes readers inside Langfield, an adult community-based English language centre that supports the settlement and learning of this vulnerable group. Drawing on a six-month ethnographic study of Langfield’s work, the book explores the approach to teaching digital literacies and presents a range of perspectives, including those of the adult learners, the teachers, and the organisation’s CEO. The chapters present a holistic view of teaching digital literacies in the adult English language context by exploring: adult learners’ digital literacy practices in everyday life and their learning at Langfield; teachers' beliefs and practices about digital literacies; and the support offered to them through institutional resources, leadership, and professional learning. The book identifies exemplary practices, as well as areas for further development in Langfield’s work and offers a range of implications for practice, policy, and research. Written in a detailed but accessible manner, this book contributes important insights into the strengths and needs of this unique and complex education sector. Addressing an area of uncertainty for many researchers, practitioners, leaders, and policy makers working within community-based learning contexts in Australia and internationally, this book will be an essential resource.

Author : Stacey Margarita Johnson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094165

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Adult Learning in the Language Classroom by Stacey Margarita Johnson Pdf

This book explores connections between the fields of foreign/second language teaching and adult learning through a case study of adult language learners at the college level. The book examines topics such as the value of adult language study, its effect on adult learners, as well as classroom practices that contribute to deeper learning.

Author : Stephen B. Stryker,Betty Lou Leaver
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589018400

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Content-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education by Stephen B. Stryker,Betty Lou Leaver Pdf

This book offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction—using subject matter rather than grammar—through eleven case studies of cutting-edge models in a broad variety of languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency. The highly innovative models illustrate content-based instruction programs for both commonly and less-commonly taught languages—Arabic, Croatian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish—and for proficiency levels ranging from beginners to fluent speakers. They include single-teacher and multi-teacher contexts and such settings as typical language department classrooms, specialty schools, intensive language programs, and university programs in foreign languages across the curriculum. All of the contributors are pioneers and practitioners of content-based instruction, and the methods they present are based on actual classroom experiences. Each describes the rationale, curriculum design, materials, and evaluation procedures used in an actual curriculum and discusses the implications of the approach for adult language acquisition.

Author : Shaofeng Li,Phil Hiver,Mostafa Papi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000548402

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences by Shaofeng Li,Phil Hiver,Mostafa Papi Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences provides a thorough, in-depth discussion of the theory, research, and pedagogy pertaining to the role individual difference (ID) factors play in second language acquisition (SLA). It goes beyond the traditional repertoire and includes 32 chapters covering a full spectrum of topics on learners’ cognitive, conative, affective, and demographic/sociocultural variation. The volume examines IDs from two perspectives: one is how each ID variable is associated with learning behaviors, processes, and outcomes; the other is how each domain of SLA, such as vocabulary or reading, is affected by clusters of ID variables. The volume also includes a section on the common methods used in ID research, including data elicitation instruments such as surveys, interviews, and psychometric testing, as well as methods of data analysis such as structural equation modeling. The book is a must-read for any second language researcher or applied linguist interested in investigating the effects of IDs on language learning, and for any educator interested in taking account of learners’ individual differences to maximize the effects of second language instruction.

Author : Ekaterina Nemtchinova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000826012

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Enhancing Beginner-Level Foreign Language Education for Adult Learners by Ekaterina Nemtchinova Pdf

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses. Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students: development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence, evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technology, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools. With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is a must read for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and applied linguistics.

Author : Malcolm S. Knowles,Elwood F. Holton III,Richard A. Swanson,Petra A. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000072914

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The Adult Learner by Malcolm S. Knowles,Elwood F. Holton III,Richard A. Swanson,Petra A. Robinson Pdf

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 : Duncan Sidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 0903466724

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Teaching Languages to Adults by Duncan Sidwell Pdf

A collection of six essays focuses on second language instruction for adult learners. In "Modern Languages and the Adult Student" (David Smith), the motivations of adults taking evening classes are examined and the ways in which language teachers need to adjust to this population are discussed. "Language Learning Theories and Their Implications for the Classroom" (Shelagh Rixon) outlines and discusses theories in two categories: those developed from the late nineteenth century to the early 1970s (grammar translation, direct, and audiolingual methods), and those appearing since the early 1970s, based on the communicative approach. In "Syllabus Design and Multi-Media Course Organisation" (John L. M. Trim), models for curriculum design are reviewed, and multimedia language instruction is recommended as offering a more complete range of learning situations to the student. Specific classroom techniques appropriate to adult student needs and attitudes and the constraints and pressures faced by their instructors are offered in "In the Classroom" (John Langran). Special considerations for language teachers and administrators of adult education language programs are analyzed in "The Tutor, the Head of Centre, and Inservice Education" (Duncan Sidwell). "Public Examinations and Achievement Tests" (Lynn Jones and Alan Moys) outlines the types of examinations available and suitable for adult education in foreign languages and provides some guidelines for their selection. (MSE)

Author : Betsy Parrish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108702843

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Teaching Adult English Language Learners by Betsy Parrish Pdf

Author : Ann F. V. Smith,Gregory Strong,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Sarah Rilling,Lilia Savova
Publisher : Classroom Practice
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1931185611

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Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation by Ann F. V. Smith,Gregory Strong,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Sarah Rilling,Lilia Savova Pdf

Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with adults. Adult language learners are goal oriented and direct their learning to fulfill particular needs or demands: to advance their studies, to progress up the career ladder, to follow business opportunities, to pass a driving test, to assist their children with homework, or simply to be successful users of the language. They usually require immediate value and relevance from their studies, and they often learn best when they are engaged in developing their own learning objectives. The volume examines learning environments as varied as Brazil, China, Iran, Japan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam, always with an emphasis on classroom practice rather than theory. The book is divided into three main areas of education: language teachers as adult learners themselves developing their teaching practice; different means of expanding learner autonomy, an important trait of the adult language learner; and innovative classroom practices. By reading these chapters you will gain an overview of recent developments in adult language learning and of ideas and techniques that can be easily adapted to your own teaching context.

Author : Rahma Al-Mahrooqi,Christopher J. Denman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030918811

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Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom by Rahma Al-Mahrooqi,Christopher J. Denman Pdf

This edited volume examines a number of topics related to the roles of individual and contextual factors in English as second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) settings by presenting chapters across the three sections of theoretical and pedagogical approaches, teacher and learner research, and research into the roles of technology. The book has a focus on practical actions and recommendations related to individual and contextual factors in ESL/EFL, with a specific concern with issues of cognition, metacognition, emotion, and identity, and offers perspectives from a diverse range of international education settings. For teachers of ESL/EFL, the effective recognition and integration of individual and contextual factors into the classroom may represent a significant challenge. This is often the case in those settings where native English speaking teachers work in foreign language contexts where they may have limited understanding of local cultures and languages, or where language instructors have class groups that are culturally and linguistically diverse. In these, and similar, contexts, the types and extent of individual and contextual factors impacting on language learning may challenge both learner and instructor expectations of what an effective and supportive classroom is. While such a situation offers numerous opportunities for learners and teachers to expand their knowledge of themselves and each other, it also presents the possibility for ineffective teaching and learning to occur. It is within this framework that the book presents the latest theoretical, pedagogical, and research perspectives from around the world, thereby providing a resource for all stakeholders with an interest in the roles individual and contextual factors play in the English learning process.

Author : Ekaterina Nemtchinova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000826050

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Enhancing Beginner-Level Foreign Language Education for Adult Learners by Ekaterina Nemtchinova Pdf

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses. Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students: development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence, evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technology, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools. With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is a must read for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and applied linguistics.

Author : Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro,Suzanne Flynn,Jason Rothman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273031

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Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood by Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro,Suzanne Flynn,Jason Rothman Pdf

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential. From linguistic, sociological, psychological, educational and cognitive viewpoints, it has become increasingly apparent that the study of L3/Ln acquisition can provide new evidence to help resolve ongoing debates in these areas of study. This volume uniquely provides a wide-ranging overview of current trends in the study of adult additive multilingualism from formal, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, adding new insights into adult multilingual epistemology. This collection includes critical reviews of L3/Ln morphosyntax, phonology, and the lexicon, as well as individual studies with unique language pairings including Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and Asian languages.