Adult refugees with limited education are a distinctive learner group with substantial and distinctive educational, social, and psychological needs. Working with these learners is a highly specialized activity, requiring high levels of educational skill and commitment. With a paucity of original research available about this group of learners, this study provides a systematic documentation of their distinctive needs as well as effective educational strategies for use with these learners. The study involved interviews with 36 adult refugees, two program coordinators, five course teachers, and six bilingual tutors from a community-based program in New Zealand. The challenge of working with these learners arises due not only to their experienc...
As a society, we are increasingly aware of the difficult situations people endure to make the journe...
Background: Political and economic upheavals in the current millennium globally have displaced mill...
The project “European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teac...
The purpose of this study was to document and analyse the learning needs and issues of adult refugee...
New Zealand is welcoming 500 more former quota refugees in 2020, many of whom are adults with minima...
Some adult migrants and refugees have no home language literacy, because they have attended little o...
In August of this year I attended the LESLLA conference in Pittsburgh, USA to show findings from...
Abstract There is increasing acknowledgment of the paucity of second language acquisition research...
This study examines the implementation of a two-day training intervention for community volunteer te...
Aotearoa 2020: Accommodating limited literacy background learners. Aotearoa New Zealand will expan...
This presentation gives background into limited literacy learners who often present in our instituti...
Notions of ‘best practice’ in English language teaching are fundamentally shaped by the economic clo...
Canada welcomes around 24,000 refugees annually (Citizenship and Immigration Canada 2015; 2016). Man...
Volunteer English as an additional language (EAL) tutors working through adult community education (...
In the present paper we tried to describe the educational needs of the adult refugees’ educators in ...
As a society, we are increasingly aware of the difficult situations people endure to make the journe...
Background: Political and economic upheavals in the current millennium globally have displaced mill...
The project “European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teac...
The purpose of this study was to document and analyse the learning needs and issues of adult refugee...
New Zealand is welcoming 500 more former quota refugees in 2020, many of whom are adults with minima...
Some adult migrants and refugees have no home language literacy, because they have attended little o...
In August of this year I attended the LESLLA conference in Pittsburgh, USA to show findings from...
Abstract There is increasing acknowledgment of the paucity of second language acquisition research...
This study examines the implementation of a two-day training intervention for community volunteer te...
Aotearoa 2020: Accommodating limited literacy background learners. Aotearoa New Zealand will expan...
This presentation gives background into limited literacy learners who often present in our instituti...
Notions of ‘best practice’ in English language teaching are fundamentally shaped by the economic clo...
Canada welcomes around 24,000 refugees annually (Citizenship and Immigration Canada 2015; 2016). Man...
Volunteer English as an additional language (EAL) tutors working through adult community education (...
In the present paper we tried to describe the educational needs of the adult refugees’ educators in ...
As a society, we are increasingly aware of the difficult situations people endure to make the journe...
Background: Political and economic upheavals in the current millennium globally have displaced mill...
The project “European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Immigrants and Training their Teac...