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Direct linkAbdallaoui Maan, Najia – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
The study aimed at exploring reading acquisition in Arabic from the perspective of a newly-literate adult native speaker, seeking to improve her reading ability and recite the Quran. Drawing mainly on a participatory cognitive schematic-interactive approach, and accounting for a literacy social view, the study's construct allowed the investigation…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Speakers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Download full textTalwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Nedungadi, Prema; Devenport, Kathryn; Sutcliffe, Rita; Raman, Raghu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The adult learning ecology has expanded to include digital access, requiring enhancement of theories in the specific context of low-literate learners who may not have previously benefited from educational technology. The Digital Learning Ecology (DLE) framework identifies the three dimensions of context, design, and motivation, considering…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Multimedia Instruction
Wolf, Alison; Jenkins, Andrew – British Educational Research Journal, 2014
This paper examines the degree to which British adults participating in workplace literacy courses improved their reading comprehension skills, using longitudinal data which cover the period from enrolment until between two and three years later. Learners were tested using an instrument designed explicitly for adults, with two parallel forms. For…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Workplace Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Binder, Katherine S.; Snyder, Melissa A.; Ardoin, Scott P.; Morris, Robin K. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This study examined the reliability and validity of administering Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) to adult basic education (ABE) students. Ninety ABE participants were administered DIBELS measures, the Woodcock-Johnson III Broad Reading (WJ III BR) measures, and four orthographic ability tests. Since ABE students are a…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Trudell, Barbara; Klaas, Anthony R. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Successful adult literacy and basic education programs are notoriously difficult to achieve. One reason for this has to do with how the question, "literacy for what?" is answered for a given program. All too frequently, the answer to that question is shaped more by the goals of the literacy provider than it is by learners' own goals and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Motivation, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Csepelyi, Tünde – CATESOL Journal, 2010
The focus of this article is on adult literacy in adult basic education (ABE) programs with special emphasis on English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The article intends to highlight several relevant points in ABE ESL literacy instruction. It focuses on (a) the nature of adult learning, (b) the structure of ABE programs, (c) who the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jean S. Marrapodi – Online Submission, 2006
Metacognition provides insights into the internal information processing of an individual. Studies around metacognition and reading have demonstrated that metacognitive thinking during reading reveals an individual's knowledge of the reading process. In examining adult literacy students, metacognitive descriptions can provide insight into…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Adult Learning, Reading Instruction, Adult Literacy
Rodrigo, Victoria; Greenberg, Daphne; Burke, Victoria; Hall, Ryan; Berry, Angelee; Brinck, Tanya; Joseph, Holly; Oby, Michael – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2007
This article describes the implementation of an extensive reading (ER) program with 43 first language (L1) and second language (L2) adult literacy students. Among them, 16% were nonnative speakers of English. The main principles considered in the design of the program were (a) purpose of reading, (b) reading tactics, (c) material used, and (d) …
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Silent Reading, Reading Programs, Teacher Role
Holmes, Virginia M.; Babauta, Mariko L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Neuropsychological models postulate that the memory representation acquired for use in reading words is separate from the one acquired for use in spelling, while developmental models assume that the same representation is developed for access in both reading and spelling. The dual-representation model contends that there is often more precise…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Spelling, Neuropsychology, Memory
Alderman, L. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
The instruction of both native and foreign-born persons in the essentials of the English language, numbers, civics, geography, and history is an important task. The United States Bureau of the Census reports that in 1920, nearly 5,000,000 of our population over 10 years of age could not write in any language. The number who need instruction in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Illiteracy, Adult Literacy, English
