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Direct linkColeman, Mari Beth; Hurley, Kevin J.; Cihak, David F. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of teacher-directed and computer-assisted constant time delay strategies for teaching three students with moderate intellectual disability to read functional sight words. Target words were those found in recipes and were taught via teacher-delivered constant time delay or…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Computers, Sight Vocabulary, Mental Retardation
Download full textCoutinho, Colin – Online Submission, 2008
This paper will review the article entitled, "Shopping {For} Power: How Adult Literacy Learners Negotiate" [EJ756994] by authors Julie L. Ozanne, Natalie Ross Adkins, and Jennifer A. Sandlin. The authors argue that functional literacy in the United States is an important issue and needs to play a larger role in adult literacy programs.…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Adult Literacy, Interviews, Observation
Baer, Justin; Kutner, Mark; Sabatini, John; White, Sheida – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy of adults in the United States for the first time since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey. The assessment was administered to more than 19,000 adults (ages 16 and older) in households and prisons. The tasks included on the assessment were designed to measure…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Educational Assessment, Low Achievement, Adult Literacy
Bigelow, Martha; Schwarz, Robin Lovrien – National Institute for Literacy, 2010
Adult English language learners who lack print literacy or experience with formal education encounter a unique set of challenges in their lives and their efforts to learn English. Educators and policymakers are similarly challenged by how best to help these adults acquire English literacy. This paper reviews a variety of research, including that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Beasley, Robert E.; Chuang, Yuangshan – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2006
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of American music, lyrics, vocabulary definitions, and song explanations during online music study on listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and lifestyle literacy in Taiwanese ESL learners. One-hundred-eight ESL learners from 2 large comprehensive universities in Taiwan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Definitions, Vocabulary Development
