Preparing Adult English Learners to Read for College and the Workplace

This edited volume provides theory, research, and instructional approaches to help adult education ESL practitioners work effectively with adult learners and prepare them to be successful with reading in academic and workplace settings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Adult ESL practitioners can help adult learners develop the skills they need to be successful with reading in academic and workplace settings by bringing together a rich collection of topics and authors. This edited volume provides theory, research, and instructional approaches to help practitioners work effectively with adult learners and prepare them to be successful with reading. By preparing adults learning English to apply appropriate reading strategies to a variety of academic and professional contexts and purposes, using instructional strategies, including digital technology, to help struggling and developing readers close gaps in skills and conceptual knowledge, improving reading comprehension through robust vocabulary instruction, enhancing reading skills and comprehension through writing instruction that balances sentence-level, discourse, and interactive processes and practices, and inspiring students to become lifelong readers who engage in extensive reading outside of school and professional contexts, adult ESL practitioners can help adult learners develop the skills they need to be successful with reading in academic and workplace settings.

Weight: 402g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472039661