This book explores connections between the fields of foreign/second language teaching and adult learning. This interdisciplinary approach serves as a framework in order to: (a) understand the teaching methods that promote the deeper, more critical sort of language learning advocated by scholars and professional organizations, (b) understand how adult students learn and transform through language study, and (c) reinforce the immense value of beginning language courses. Johnson studies a classroom of adult language learners for one semester, exploring issues of motivation and perceived value for these short-term learners as well as touching on issues around intercultural communication teaching and learning. The book will be of interest to adult language teachers as well as researchers studying adult education and second language learning.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Adult Learning Theory
Chapter 3: Adult Language Education
Chapter 4: This Class
Chapter 5: How the Class was Taught
Chapter 6: What Students Learned
Chapter 7: Transformation and Development
Chapter 8: Applications
References
Appendix
关于作者
Stacey Margarita Johnson is Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Second Language Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is also Editor of the journal Spanish and Portuguese Review and producer and host of the podcast ‘We Teach Languages’. Her research focuses on classroom practices, adult learning, critical pedagogy, and technology in language teaching. She is the author of the books Hybrid Language Teaching in Practice: Perceptions, Reactions, and Results, co-authored with Berta Carrasco (2015), and Adult Learning in the Language Classroom (2015).