Issues emerging from the pilot of an online module on vocabulary learning by low-educated adult immigrants
Teachers' knowledge and skills are key in their students' achievement. For those who teach language and literacy to adult immigrants with little or no formal schooling, there is almost no specialist training/development available in many countries. This dearth can and should be addressed
at the international level since most low-educated immigrant adults come from a common set of impoverished and war-torn regions and because most governments are unlikely to provide funding for this sort of specialist training and development. An on-going project has taken on the challenge
of providing online modules to increase such teachers' knowledge and skills. The pilot-testing of the first international module has shown that this way of reaching teachers is feasible and positively received by participants. The module content, vocabulary learning, revealed that teachers
recognise this as a bottleneck in learners' progress, and that more research on this population is required before important questions can be answered.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2015
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