Publication Date

1992

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Orem, Richard A.

Degree Name

M.S. Ed. (Master of Education)

Legacy Department

Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies

LCSH

Adult education--Illinois; English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

Abstract

This paper focuses on adult ESL student and teacher attitudes toward survival skills. Forty students and twenty-five teachers were selected from a community college ESL program to participate in the study. The findings suggest an unusually high degree of interest in survival skills, both from a student's and teacher's point of view. The results support the adult education theory which suggests that the curriculum should incorporate relevancy into a program of instruction and that learning activities should be centered around real- life experience. Needs assessment is explored as a tool for determining instructional relevancy.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (pages [64]-69)

Extent

v, 117 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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