Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United States has been understood and assessed as the mastering of skills increasingly aimed at meeting the demands of the workplace. This ethnographic case study examines how the literacy practices a Latino woman engages in through her participation in an ABE-ESOL class relate to her developing identities of mother, student and citizen. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the findings demonstrate the contextual nature of adult literacy, showing how learners appropriate available tools and texts and enact purposeful and meaningful literacy practices, which traditional ABE assessment dismiss or do not account for. Implications for adult literacy ped...
INTRODUCTION Before, I was a \u27little ignorant\u27. I didn\u27t know what was happening. I didn\u2...
Schools are complex social institutions that mediate the experiences of newcomer families in the US....
The purpose of this study is to examine adult literacy beyond its constraints as a social problem an...
Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United Stat...
Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United Stat...
This ethnographic study explored everyday lived experiences of a group of Latina women in school and...
Copyright 1999, Language and Literacy Spectrum, Journal of The New York State Reading Association. ...
Scholars historically emphasized literate learners’ additional language trajectories. In countries w...
We present a case-study of adult females becoming “literate. ” Low income female learners in Adult B...
textFor the past 30 years, researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition (Block, 2007; Lan...
This qualitative study explored Latina women’s use of hegemonic mothering and literacy discourses, e...
In this ethnographic study, I contrast the educational experiences of two Central American immigrant...
dissertationResearch in the field of adult ESL education puts much emphasis on print literacy and cl...
Adult ESL programs in the Australian context are heavily influenced by neo-liberal notion...
Schools are complex social institutions that mediate the experiences of newcomer families in the US....
INTRODUCTION Before, I was a \u27little ignorant\u27. I didn\u27t know what was happening. I didn\u2...
Schools are complex social institutions that mediate the experiences of newcomer families in the US....
The purpose of this study is to examine adult literacy beyond its constraints as a social problem an...
Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United Stat...
Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United Stat...
This ethnographic study explored everyday lived experiences of a group of Latina women in school and...
Copyright 1999, Language and Literacy Spectrum, Journal of The New York State Reading Association. ...
Scholars historically emphasized literate learners’ additional language trajectories. In countries w...
We present a case-study of adult females becoming “literate. ” Low income female learners in Adult B...
textFor the past 30 years, researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition (Block, 2007; Lan...
This qualitative study explored Latina women’s use of hegemonic mothering and literacy discourses, e...
In this ethnographic study, I contrast the educational experiences of two Central American immigrant...
dissertationResearch in the field of adult ESL education puts much emphasis on print literacy and cl...
Adult ESL programs in the Australian context are heavily influenced by neo-liberal notion...
Schools are complex social institutions that mediate the experiences of newcomer families in the US....
INTRODUCTION Before, I was a \u27little ignorant\u27. I didn\u27t know what was happening. I didn\u2...
Schools are complex social institutions that mediate the experiences of newcomer families in the US....
The purpose of this study is to examine adult literacy beyond its constraints as a social problem an...