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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"young adult learners"”.
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Supplementing ESL Classroom Activities With Social Media For Young Adult Learners
<p>The classroom material currently utilized in English as a second language (ESL) classrooms is often disconnected from the real world. Publishers of ESL instructional materials often attempt to bridge this gap by including topics on popular news, films, songs, and famous persons at the time of …
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Understanding Language Gain in the Overseas Immersion Context: Multi-Modal Assessment of Young Adult Learners of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
… students. The subjects (N = 452) comprise young-adult participants in the Russian Overseas Flagship (N = 126) from AY 2004-05 to 2014-15 and late-adolescent participants in the summer and year programs of the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) from 2013-2015 and from …
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New Epistemologies in a Digital Age: Ways of Knowing Beyond Text-Based Literacy in Young Adult Learners Within An Ontario College Context
The purpose of this study was to examine how young adult learners acquire and construct knowledge in a digital age within a post-secondary context. The research questions were: 1) What digital devices and technologies/tools do young adult learners use for learning and why? 2) How is the digital age …
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Speaking in Two Tongues: an Ethnographic Investigation of the Literacy Practices of English as a Foreign Language and Cambodian Young Adult Learners’ Identity
… on how the literacy practices in English of young Cambodians shaped their individual and social perception as well as performance of identity. It examines the English language as an increasingly dominant cultural and linguistic presence in Cambodia and endeavours to fill the epistemic gap in …
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Ways of being multilingual in a monolingual state revealing the language ontologies and ideologies of young adult learners in a rural part of France through a language portrait exercise
… histories and experiences of a diverse group of young adult learners attending high school in a rural part of France. These reveal not only the varying language ontologies and ideologies held amongst these young adults, but also how social hierarchies are sustained through sociolinguistic …