The present study sought to investigate the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, three different types of obligatory subjects in English, by adult Persian speaking L2 learners of English at different stages of L2 acquisition. A Grammaticality Judgment Test and a Translation Test were designed and developed to elicit the participants' knowledge of obligatory subjects...

Introduction Many commentators have argued that distance education requires a qualitatively new pedagogy built on a unique relationship between the instructor and the learners. Traditional education or one-way televised learning at a distance often produces boredom. Students learn passively because the instructor is the sage and the source of knowledge (Markel. 1999). Besides, adult learners al...

The DigLIn project aims at providing concrete solutions for adult literacy students by developing and testing L2 literacy acquisition material in four different languages and by employing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to analyse the learner’s read speech output and provide feedback. We develop the technology, design sample exercises for different languages (Dutch, English, German and Finni...

This paper explores the capitalization of one of the adult learners‟ unique characteristics; experiences, in scaffolding their learning process. As a trainer to groups of adult learners in a pre-service teacher education programme for several semesters, I had identified some issues which were caused by my adult learners‟ different level of exposure to teaching and education background. As I nee...

Previous literature presents there is a demand to teach adult learners English due to the amount of non-English speaking citizens. Therefore, educators have responded to the need for programs that teach adult learners English. English as a Second Language (ESL) classes help adults by providing a foundation of comprehension for the English language, this foundation helps adults navigate their li...

THEPHENOMENAL GROWTH IN THE NUMBER of adults enrolled in graduate level classes that are delivered through distance education methods, such as video teleconference technology, has implications for library support services. The authors discuss adult learners and higher education provided in a distance delivery format, case studies centered on these adult learners, the library service and support...

Flege’s Speech Learning Model posits that adult second language learners retain the abilities of child learners for the perception and formation of novel phonetic categories. For novel categories to be formed, the learner must discern at least some of the phonetic differences between the novel L2 and the closest L1 sound. However the model does not fully specify the mechanisms by which learners...

Purpose: This study aims to inform the field of mathematics education for late adult learners by considering teaching and learning methods & strategies mathematics. It focuses on literacy middle school curriculum developed learners. Methods: applied a mixed-method approach. Through research literature, were identified, those featured in textbooks reviewed. The was validated receiving expert...

We study a novel machine learning (ML) problem setting of sequentially allocating smallsubsets of training data amongst a large set of classifiers. The goal is to select a classifierthat will give near-optimal accuracy when trained on all data, while also minimizing the costof misallocated samples. This is motivated by large modern datasets and ML toolkits withmany combinations ...

Some students perform extremely excellent in some courses whiles they performance poorly in computer programming couse in most of the Ghanaian higher institutions. The question is why some students perform excellent in some courses but these same students perform poorly in computer programming course. In looking for ways of addressing this question the study seek to investigate whether some stu...