Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL

Superación vs Dropout of Adult English Learners in the US

Taewoong Kim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2022
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-80041-239-2 (ISBN)

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This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. Based on a study of a group of Mexican immigrants to the US, the author proposes that superación or ‘self-actualization’ is crucial to understanding the relative success of adult ESL learners. Learners’ decisions to drop out were not hasty or superficial but were based on a commonsense assessment concerning how the class might improve the quality of their lives. Those involved in delivering ESL to adult learners should stress the tangible, practical advantages that accrue with learning English, and at the same time strive to make instruction relevant.

Taewoong Kim is a lecturer at Washington University in St Louis, USA, having previously taught English and Korean to students of all ages. His research interests include learner identity and investment, computer-assisted language learning, and social justice through education.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: A Broken Car

Chapter 1. Voices Unheard from the Margins

Chapter 2. Theoretical Frameworks

Chapter 3. Adult English Literacy Learners in America and Research Context

Chapter 4. The Six Persistent Learners

Chapter 5. Who They Are: Thematic Identity of the Six Adult English Learners

Chapter 6. What Drives Investment

Chapter 7. What Makes Adult ELs Drop Out

Chapter 8. What Makes Adult ELs Stay

Chapter 9. Discussion

Chapter 10. Implications and Conclusion

References

About the Author

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on Language and Education
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80041-239-8 / 1800412398
ISBN-13	978-1-80041-239-2 / 9781800412392
Zustand	Neuware