Abstract
Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education: Theory, Research, and Practice is a compendium of the six modules that were the result of the third phase of the EU-Speak Project, European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Migrants and Training Their Teachers, an ambitious collaborative research project carried out by several European and American universities with the purpose of orienting second language educators whose target pupils are immigrant second language learners with limited education and literacy. Each chapter covers different linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and pedagogical issues in order to offer a complete guide to those interested in teaching a second language to this particular group of learners. As a result, the book presents itself as a link between researchers, teachers, policy-makers, and administrators with the common aim of integrating these learners as active members of their new countries through the acquisition of their new languages.
Highlights
Even though they have received little attention within academia, adult immigrant second language learners with limited education and literacy are the main characters of many headlines in the mass media
The book presents itself as a link between researchers, teachers, policy-makers, and administrators. It comprises seven chapters and, with the exception of the first one, every chapter encompasses each of the six educational modules that were created within the third phase of the EU-Speak project European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Migrants and Training Their Teachers (i.e., Language and Literacy in Social Context; Reading from a Psycholinguistic perspective; Vocabulary; Acquisition and Assessment of Morphosyntax; Bilingualism and Multilingualism, and; Teaching and Tutoring Adult Learners with Limited Education and Literacy)
The authors focus on the idea that language instruction should be linked to daily life and the current needs of this particular group of learners
Summary
Even though they have received little attention within academia, adult immigrant second language learners with limited education and literacy are the main characters of many headlines in the mass media. It comprises seven chapters and, with the exception of the first one, every chapter encompasses each of the six educational modules that were created within the third phase of the EU-Speak project European Speakers of Other Languages: Teaching Adult Migrants and Training Their Teachers (i.e., Language and Literacy in Social Context; Reading from a Psycholinguistic perspective; Vocabulary; Acquisition and Assessment of Morphosyntax; Bilingualism and Multilingualism, and; Teaching and Tutoring Adult Learners with Limited Education and Literacy).
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