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Easy-to-Read German Put to the Test: Do Adults with Intellectual Disability or Functional Illiteracy Benefit from Compound Segmentation?
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Pappert, Sandra; Bock, Bettina M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Easy-to-read (ETR) German is the subject of public debate. Even though it is heavily promoted by officials, its status is controversial. Moreover, the comprehensibility of ETR German texts awaits systematic testing. The aim of the present study was to test a controversial rule concerning word segmentation. Hypotheses derived from psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: German, Readability, Intellectual Disability, Reading Skills
Adult Literacy in the United States. Data Point. NCES 2019-179
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Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
Using the data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this Data Point summarizes the number of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy and describes how they differ by nativity status and race/ethnicity. PIAAC is a large-scale international study of working-age adults (ages 16-65) that assesses…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, English, Racial Differences
Adult Education and the Health Literacy of Hispanic Immigrants in the United States
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Soto Mas, Francisco; Jacobson, Holly E.; Olivárez, Arturo – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
Discussion on the advantages of integrating health literacy into adult education has primarily been theoretical and conceptual. There is a need for studies that assess the impact of adult education on health literacy. This study implemented a quasi-experimental design to explore whether basic adult instruction may constitute a venue for improving…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Health, Hispanic Americans, Health Education
Defining Meaningful Literacy: Findings from a Socially-Oriented Literacy Intervention for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
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Deagle, Elena; D'Amico, Miranda – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
The current study is a qualitative analysis of the results of a literacy skills intervention with a group comprising of three individuals with Down syndrome and three individuals with other developmental disabilities. The intervention was developed to address the concern that individuals in this population are often only exposed to functional…
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Literacy, Literacy Education