John Comings & Barbara Garner 
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 6 [PDF ebook] 
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, includes chapters on:*Demographic change and low-literacy Americans;*The role of vocabulary in Adult Basic Education;*Implications of research on spelling for Adult Basic Education;*Issues in teaching speaking skills to adult ESOL learners;*The preparation and stability of the Adult Basic Education teaching workforce;*The adult literacy system in Ireland; and*Broad-based organizing as a vehicle for promoting adult literacy..