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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"adult literacy learners"”.
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How does blended learning motivate adult literacy learners?
This piece of work looks at how adult literacy learners in the context of an urban Dublin community education centre are motivated by using a blended learning approach to improving their literacy skills. Chapter one introduces the thesis and gives some background to why this topic was chosen. …
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Investigating the Self-Assessment of Adult Literacy Learners with Dyslexia across Several Cognitive Domains
The dissertation evaluated the ability of adult literacy learners with dyslexia to assess their cognitive abilities in two separate domains: reading and memory. This study also evaluated the effect that one-on-one tutoring had on the learner's ability to accurately self-assess these cognitive …
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Motivation and Reading Achievement: Understanding the Needs and Motivation Processes of Adult Literacy Learners
Adult struggling readers are understudied and most evidence-based remedial approaches target youth. This thesis examined relationships among motivation constructs across typical and struggling adult readers. Age was also investigated as a moderator in these relationships. Participants included 198 …
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Voices in a Knowledge Conversation : an exploration of two narrative representations of Adult Literacy Learners
As a result of policy changes in adult literacy education in England in recent years, political and public narratives about adult literacy learners have become dominated by the notion of skills deficit, demonstrating a disregard for adult learners’ lives and life experiences beyond employment and …
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Engaging adult literacy learners: investigating problem based learning object (PBLO) use as a possibility for implementing problem based learning (PBL) online
Anecdotal evidence revealed that learners in an adult literacy program at a large school board in Ontario were disengaged - unable to identify opportunities to act in response to traditional pedagogy used to prepare them for science PLAR assessments. Given the evidence that Problem Based Learning …
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Women Participation in Adult Literacy Programme: A case of Kabompo District in North Western Province
… to evaluate levels of women participation in the Adult Literacy programme in Kabompo District of North-western province.The study was mainly meant to answer the questions raised as specified in the objectives. Objectives for the study included: establishing why women enrol in the Adult Literacy …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… identify which factors of text complexity effect adults’ comprehension of and ability to adequately complete assistance application documents post Plain Writing Act. The study’s three phases examine the participants’ perceptions regarding the clarity/usability of federal government food assistance …
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Factors Influencing the persistence of adult learners in literacy learning at Sebenta National Institute to strenghten promgramme design and development.
… the factors influencing the persistence of adult learners in a literacy programme at the Sebenta National Institute (SNI) in Mbabane, Eswatini. The study followed a qualitative approach and employed a case study design. The study had (148) participants and utilized purposive sampling to …
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Factors Influencing the persistence of adult learners in literacy learning at Sebenta National Institute to strenghten promgramme design and development.
… the factors influencing the persistence of adult learners in a literacy programme at the Sebenta National Institute (SNI) in Mbabane, Eswatini. The study followed a qualitative approach and employed a case study design. The study had (148) participants and utilized purposive sampling to …
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Motivating adult learners to learn: a comparative study of adult literacy programmes in South Africa and Nigeria
… study The study investigated factors motivating learners in adult literacy programmes in South Africa and Nigeria. The main emphasis of the study was on adult literacy learners and adult facilitators in adult literacy programmes in both South Africa and Nigeria. Theoretical frameworks and …
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Unheard Voices, Unlearned Lessons. Seeking to Belong in Adult Basic Education – a Grounded Theory Study
This study explores the experience of a number of adult literacy learners, in order to ascertain why they did not succeed in the learning system, although they had declared their intention to improve their literacy and made the very difficult first steps. Through listening to the stories of this, …
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"It is possible to reinvent yourself!” An analysis of the learning lives and lived experience of adult literacy students in a Further Education context
… presents an analysis of the life stories of four adult literacy learners studying on a Skills for Life course in a Further Education context in the south west of England, three of whom are returning to education for the first time in their adult lives. Drawing on data generated by semi-structured …