Reading out loud gets an unfair reputation. A lot of people see it as something you do when you’re a kid or something you only do with kids, if you’re reading a story to small children. The truth is, there’s a lot of educational value in reading out loud, even for adult learn...
Higher education Adult ESL learners reading and discussingThe purpose of this study was to examine how adult students in a reading class offered in a college-affiliated ESL program responded to The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925; GG, afterwards) in small group book discussion sessions over eight ...
First, we wanted to examine if ER could be successfully implemented with adult second language learners beyond traditional student age. Secondly, we were interested in the relationship between learning gain and a set of ER variables, such as amount of ER materials read, the extent to which this...
Monica has taught college-level courses in Tourism, HR and Adult Education. She has a Master's in Education and is three years into a PhD.Cite this lesson This lesson provides information on how to choose reading materials for adult learners. You'll explore adult learner characteristics, adult...
Extensive reading is an approach to teaching reading that has been utilized with English as a Second Language (ESL) learners, but not widely used in the adult literacy classroom. This article investigates whether this approach can be utilized in a classroom for adults who have difficulty with rea...
Students were required to write a summary using information from two passages after text structure knowledge instruction. The authors found that the text structure training group and the plan and write group produced better performance than a control group. Furthermore, the text structure group showed...
Fluency may be taught using approaches that include the repeated reading of passages of text, words from texts, and other text units. Comprehension Principle 11. Adults who qualify for ABE have poor functional literacy comprehension achievement. Although they may be able to perform simple ...
primary languages were Mandarin and Korean, which have substantially different syntactic structures from English. Ninety participants (30 L1 English, 30 L1 Mandarin, 30 L1 Korean) were randomly assigned to either the traditional or the LDTF format and read six English passages across two sessions wi...
The WJ oral comprehension subtest requires students to listen to orally presented sentences and short passages. Students then complete a sentence or short passage by orally providing the missing word that makes sense in the context. For example, given the verbal prompt, “A fish ___,” a stud...
The TOEFL reading section has three to four passages that test reading comprehension. Explore strategies for understanding the passages and answering questions that will help to achieve a passing score. TOEFL Reading Before you can ace a test, you have to understand what it's testing. The TOEFL...