Uses of Technology in the Instruction of Adult English Language Learners

[Francis Hult]

CAELA Network

 

Uses of Technology in the Instruction of Adult English Language Learners

 

Sarah Catherine K. Moore
Center for Applied Linguistics
February 2009

 

Adult education programs serve both native English speakers and learners whose first, or native, language is not English. Native English speakers attend adult basic education (ABE) classes to learn basic skills needed to improve their literacy levels and adult secondary education (ASE) classes to earn high school equivalency certificates. Both ABE and ASE instruction help learners achieve other goals related to job, family, or further education. English language learners attend English as a second language (ESL), ABE, or workforce preparation classes to improve their oral and literacy skills in English and to achieve goals similar to those of native English speakers. 

 

Audience for This Brief 

This brief is written for teachers, program administrators, education researchers, and policy makers to provide information on how technology can be used in the instruction of adult English language learners to facilitate their acquisition of English proficiency. 

 

Full text:

http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/pd_resources/usestechnology.html

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