Promoting Literacy in Adult Second Language Learners: A Systematic Review of Effective Practices
| Autor: | Serena Dal Maso, Sabrina Piccinin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Cultural identity media_common.quotation_subject Population Phonics Language and Linguistics Literacy Scarcity adult learning Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology education Curriculum media_common education.field_of_study Language and Literature 05 social sciences 050301 education second language teaching Second-language acquisition literacy teaching literacy acquisition Language education second language acquisition literacy acquisition literacy teaching second language acquisition adult learning second language teaching 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Languages, Vol 6, Iss 127, p 127 (2021) |
| Popis: | Literacy is an essential tool for functioning in a modern society and, as such, it is often taken for granted when developing second language learning curricula for people who need to learn another language. However, almost 750 million people around the world cannot read and write, because of limited or absent formal education. Among them, migrants face the additional challenge of having to learn a second language as they settle in a new country. Second language research has only recently started focusing on this population, whose needs have long been neglected. This contribution presents a systematic review of the classroom-based research conducted with such learners and aims at identifying the teaching practices that have proven to be successful and the principles that should inform curriculum design when working with this population. A first observation emerging from the review concerns the scarcity of experimentally validated studies within this domain. Nonetheless, based on the results of the available literature, this work highlights the importance of contextualized phonics teaching and of oral skills development, which turn out to be most effective when emphasis is put on learners’ cultural identities and native languages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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