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Download full textVafai, Maliheh Mansuripur – CATESOL Journal, 2016
This article reports on an empirical case study centering on adult ESL learners' motivational patterns for learning English and its relevance to their career goals. It looks at past patterns of immigrant insertion within the socioeconomic context of the US and explores current trends in adult ESL curriculum development focused on the task of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Curriculum Development
Direct linkAnderson, Ryan Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Community colleges serve as the postsecondary college of choice for many adult students. Community colleges are aware of their increased role in postsecondary education and understand that they must continue to analyze student populations and adapt to their needs as well as maintain their open access philosophy. This study was conducted at the 15…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Swift, John; Fisher, Roy – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2012
How young people make career/occupational choices and why they enter particular careers/occupations are questions to which the answers are complex. One hundred and ninety seven-students drawn from two non-selective comprehensive schools and two further education (FE) colleges in the North of England took part in a questionnaire survey relating to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Questionnaires, Student Educational Objectives, Student Attitudes
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2017
This report examines three focal points for understanding incoming first-year students' motivation to complete college: (1) academic motivational barriers and opportunities; (2) social motivational barriers and opportunities; and (3) financial motivational barriers and opportunities. [For "2016 National Freshman Motivation to Complete College…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Motivation, Academic Persistence, Student Attrition
