Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Steven G. McCafferty ◽  
Elsa Auerbach ◽  
Byron Barahona ◽  
Julio Midy ◽  
Felipe Vaquerano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Esl ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Participatory Literacy

The Multimedia Adult ESL Learner Corpus

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reder ◽  
Kathryn Harris ◽  
Kristen Setzler
Keyword(s):  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Adult Esl

scholarly journals Young Spanish Adults and Disinformation: Do They Identify and Spread Fake News and Are They Literate in It?

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Aida María de Vicente de Vicente Domínguez ◽  
Ana Beriain Beriain Bañares ◽  
Javier Sierra Sierra Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Know How ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
Do So

The infodiet of young Spanish adults aged 18 to 25 was analysed to determine their attitude towards fake news. The objectives were: to establish whether they have received any training in fake news; to determine whether they know how to identify fake information; and to investigate whether they spread it. The study employed a descriptive quantitative method consisting of a survey of 500 representative interviews of the Spanish population aged between 18 and 25 through a structured questionnaire. The results indicate that they are aware of the importance of training, although generally they do not know of any course and when they do, they do not tend to enroll on one either due to lack of interest or time. These young adults feel that they know how to identify fake content and, moreover, that they know how to do so very well. However, they do not use the best tools. While they do not always verify information, they mainly suspect the credibility of information when it is meaningless. However, they do not tend to spread fake information. We conclude that media information literacy training (MILT) is necessary in educational centres that focuses on the main issues identified.

scholarly journals Improving nurses’ readiness for evidence-based practice in critical care units: results of an information literacy training program

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamileh Farokhzadian ◽  
Somayeh Jouparinejad ◽  
Farhad Fatehi ◽  
Fatemeh Falahati-Marvast
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Abstract Background One of the most important prerequisites for nurses’ readiness to implement Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is to improve their information literacy skills. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a training program on nurses’ information literacy skills for EBP in critical care units. Methods In this interventional study, 60 nurses working in critical care units of hospitals affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences were randomly assigned into the intervention or control groups. The intervention group was provided with information literacy training in three eight-hour sessions over 3 weeks. Data were collected using demographic and information literacy skills for EBP questionnaires before and 1 month after the intervention. Results At baseline, the intervention and control groups were similar in terms of demographic characteristics and information literacy skills for EBP. The training program significantly improved all dimensions of information literacy skills of the nurses in the intervention group, including the use of different information resources (3.43 ± 0.48, p < 0.001), information searching skills and the use of different search features (3.85 ± 0.67, p < 0.001), knowledge about search operators (3.74 ± 0.14, p < 0.001), and selection of more appropriate search statement (x2 = 50.63, p = 0.001) compared with the control group. Conclusions Nurses can learn EBP skills and apply research findings in their nursing practice in order to provide high-quality, safe nursing care in clinical settings. Practical workshops and regular training courses are effective interventional strategies to equip nurses with information literacy skills so that they can apply these skills to their future nursing practice.

CONSTRAINTS ON “NOTICING THE GAP”

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenefer Philp
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Dyadic Interaction ◽  
Attentional Resources ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Adult Esl ◽  
Esl Learners

Interaction has been argued to promote noticing of L2 form in a context crucial to learning—when there is a mismatch between the input and the learner's interlanguage (IL) grammar (Gass & Varonis, 1994; Long, 1996; Pica, 1994). This paper investigates the extent to which learners may notice native speakers' reformulations of their IL grammar in the context of dyadic interaction. Thirty-three adult ESL learners worked on oral communication tasks in NS-NNS pairs. During each of the five sessions of dyadic task-based interaction, learners received recasts of their nontargetlike question forms. Accurate immediate recall of recasts was taken as evidence of noticing of recasts by learners. Results indicate that learners noticed over 60–70% of recasts. However, accurate recall was constrained by the level of the learner and by the length and number of changes in the recast. The effect of these variables on noticing is discussed in terms of processing biases. It is suggested that attentional resources and processing biases of the learner may modulate the extent to which learners “notice the gap” between their nontargetlike utterances and recasts.

Retrospective Miscue Analysis With Proficient Adult ESL Readers

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian J. Wurr ◽  
Joan L. Theurer ◽  
Koomi J. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Miscue Analysis ◽  
Retrospective Miscue Analysis ◽  
Adult Esl

Research on Training Strategy of College Teacher's Information Literacy in Information Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 1514-1517
Author(s):  
Le Hui Huang ◽  
Bin Gui
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
College Teachers ◽  
Training Strategy ◽  
College Teacher ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Teaching Ability

Improving information literacy of college teacher has great importance for teachers to imporve teaching ability and teaching effect. The paper introduces the necessity of college teachers information literacy training, the connotation of college teachers information literacy, and strategy of improving the information literacy of university teacher.

Literacy Training and Job Placement of Hard-Core Unemployed Negroes in Detroit

1968 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Patten Jr. ◽  
Gerald E. Clark Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Hard Core ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
Literacy Training
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