Teaching Adult Immigrants with Limited Formal Education - Theory, Research and Practice

This book aims to empower teachers working with adult migrants who have had little or no prior formal schooling, and give them the information and skills that they need to reach the highest possible levels of literacy in their new languages.

About the author

Joy Kreeft Peyton is President of the Coalition of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools in the United States, which connects and collaborates with thousands of schools teaching hundreds of languages, mostly on weekends. She has also worked in Ethiopia, Nepal, and The Gambia to develop curriculum, materials, and student pleasure reading books in students’ mother tongues.
Martha Young-Scholten, PhD University of Washington, Seattle, is professor of second language acquisition at Newcastle University. Since the 1980s, she has conducted research on the generative-linguistics-based L2 acquisition of morphosyntax and phonology, focusing on adults  acquiring their L2 naturalistically. For the last decade she has been investigating the reading development of migrant adults with limited home language literacy. She has been involved in Grundtvig and Erasmus+ projects: 2013-2015, the Digital Literacy Instructor, as partner, and 2010-2018, as coordinator of EU-Speak. She co-directs with a creative writing colleague the Simply Cracking Good Stories project on L2 pleasure reading for adult beginners.

Summary

This book aims to empower teachers working with adult migrants who have had little or no prior formal schooling, and give them the information and skills that they need to reach the highest possible levels of literacy in their new languages.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joy Kreeft Peyton (Editor), Peyton Joy Kreeft (Editor), Martha Young-Scholten (Editor), Young-Scholten Martha (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781788926997
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-699-7
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 452 g
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik, Alphabetisierung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, Literacy, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Adult education, continuous learning, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)