Methodologies for Teaching English to Adult Students in Spanish Vocational Education Programs

Autor/in	Castañeda, Sergio Bernal
Titel	Methodologies for Teaching English to Adult Students in Spanish Vocational Education Programs
Quelle	In: Journal of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education, 2 (2016) 1, (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2371-0071
Schlagwörter	Adult Students; Teaching Methods; Qualitative Research; Vocational Education; Student Experience; Barriers; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Adult Learning; Andragogy; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; Structured Interviews; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Qualitative Forschung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Studienerfahrung; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Andragogics; Andragogik; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	This paper explores strategies used by teachers of English in Spain to compensate for learning limitations associated with student age. As part of a qualitative study of multiple cases, twenty teachers from different vocational programs volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. The interviews revealed the difficulties that older Spanish adult students experience in learning English in age-diverse classrooms. The findings specifically indicate that older adult learners face numerous obstacles in oral comprehension and language production because of the translation and grammatical methodologies with which they were educated. A further obstacle is their younger classmates' linguistic superiority. Special attention is paid to the methodologies used by teachers of age-diverse groups, including material specificity, real-life practice, repetition and systematization, skill-oriented tasks, and collaborative or cooperative learning. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. c/o CAUCE Secretariat at Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, 475 Williams Building, 221 Cumberland Avenue North, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1M3, Canada. Tel: 306-966-5582; Fax: 306-966-5590; e-mail; https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jpcoe/index.php/jpcoe/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01