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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Adult ESL learners"”.
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Teaching Speaking focused on Pronunciation to Adult ESL Learners in the US
<p>Learning the language of English for any adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learner is a challenge in and of itself. This is particularly pronounced in speaking skills. On top of that, if adult ESL learners try to learn the pronunciation of certain consonant sounds in English, where the …
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Developing L2 reading fluency: Implementation of an assisted repeated reading program with adult ESL learners
… repeated reading is an effective way for adult second language (L2) learners of English to develop oral and silent reading fluency rates. Reading fluency is an underdeveloped construct in second language studies, both in research and practice. This study first lays out a framework of text …
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Researching the effects of reading for pleasure in English on adult esl learners' acquisition of English
… imply the effectiveness of pleasure reading for adult second language learners. This study was conducted as a first step in searching for such evidence. A web survey was designed and run with 70 English as a Second Language learners, international graduate students at the University of Illinois …
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Field Independence as a Predictor of Second Language Learning for Adult Esl Learners in the u.s. (United States)
… opinions. An intact, dependent sample of 57 ESL students at the Intensive English Institute at the University of Illinois was given a measure of FI and English proficiency tests comprised of the TOEFL and EPT as well as an Oral Interview (Bachman and Palmer, 1981). Results of a regression …
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The impact of teachers' personality, behavior, and instructional approaches in sustaining adult ESL learners and the achievement of their self-perceived progress
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Perspectives on Introversion and Engagement in the Adult ESL Classroom
Adult learners who display introverted tendencies in formal English as a Second Language (ESL) learning environments are a heterogeneous group whose unique needs have gone relatively unexplored in the field of education. Research indicates that ESL instructional strategies typically viewed as “best …
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An investigation of second language learners' ability to resolve Anaphora in texts
… study investigated the resolution of anaphora by adult ESL learners of different proficiency levels. Two reading tests were given containing several common pro-forms. These represented two types of anaphora, NP and VP, in two conditions, context and no context. NP anaphora was presented in two …
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Professional learning across contexts for LESLLA teachers: the unlikely meeting of adult educators in kindergarten to explore early literacy instruction
In this case study of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) educators, the researcher facilitated a six-week professional development activity around the topic of early literacy instruction. The four participants in the study circle were all LESLLA (low-educated second language and literacy …
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The Glocal Learning Context in an Adult ESL Classroom: An Interpretivist Case Study of Learners’ Development and Multilingual Identity
… where global themes are actively integrated with learners’ local repertoires, mediates the holistic development and multilingual identity formation of adult ESL learners. While glocalisation has emerged as a promising theoretical lens for reimagining education at the global-local interface, its …
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Bringing Pragmatics into the ESL Classroom
… of direct instruction in helping language learners become aware of the pragmatic conditions governing the uses of grammatical structures. This thesis reports on the design and administration of a study that investigated language learners' knowledge of pragmatics and how instruction can help …
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Effects of Holistic and Analytic Instructional Approaches on the Acquisition of Various Types of Formulaic Sequences: An Empirical Study of Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… different instructional approaches affected adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners production and recognition of target formulaic sequences, as measured by oral and written responses on pretest and posttest and a psycholinguistic experiment. Specifically, the goal of the study was …
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Virtual study sessions for adult literacy education teachers’ multilingual awareness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms