[NLA] Reading Research On Adult Reading

[Elsa Auerbach]

I wonder whether any of the research projects specifically look at issues for adult learners whose first or primary language is not English (the majority of adult learners in U.S. programs)?

Elsa Auerbach

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> From: 	Thomas Sticht
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> Subject: 	[NLA] Reading Research On Adult Reading
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> Following is an edited/abridged version of a press release currently
> available at the NIFL web site: www.nifl.gov
> It suggests one direction in which the federal government is moving with
> regard to adult literacy education.
> Tom Sticht
> 
> THREE FEDERAL ORGANIZATIONS ANNOUNCE $18.5 MILLION GRANT AWARDS TO FIRST
> ADULT LITERACY RESEARCH NETWORK
> 
> WASHINGTON, October 2, 2002 - A new research network unveiled today will
> study the most effective methods and approaches for teaching reading
> skills to low-literate adults, using $18.5 million in grants from the
> National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), Office of Adult and
> Vocational Education of the US Department of Education, and the National
> Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National
> Institutes of Health. The funds, to be used over a five-year period, will
> fund six individual research projects focused on adult literacy
> instruction.
> 
> The projects within the network will design, develop, implement and study
> the effectiveness of adult literacy interventions for low-literate adults,
> including the role of decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension
> instruction and explicitness of instruction. These are the components of
> reading that have been shown to be essential in teaching reading to
> younger students, but instructional methods for teaching them to adults
> have not been thoroughly investigated. > ...> 
> 
> ...> All six of the funded studies will employ experimental or
> quasi-experimental designs, one including a neuroimaging component.
> Although these projects will not be completed for five years, by the end
> of the first year the investigators will be reporting on their ongoing
> progress
> and preliminary findings. A listing of the principal investigators and
> their institutions follows:
> 
>       Daphne Greenberg, Georgia State University
>       Research on Reading Instruction for Low Literate Adults
> 
>       Susan Levy, University of Illinois
>       Testing Impact of Health Literacy in Adult Literacy
> and Integrated Family Approach  Programs
> 
>       Daryl Mellard, University of Kansas - Lawrence
>       Improving Literacy Instruction for Adults
> 
>       John Sabatini, Educational Testing Services
>       Relative Effectiveness of Reading Programs for Adults
> 
>       Frank Wood, Wake Forest University of the Health Sciences
>       Young Adult Literacy Problems: Prevalence and Treatment
> 
>       Richard Venezky, University of Delaware
>       Building a Knowledge Base for Teaching Adult Decoding
> 
>       > ...>  "This type of in-depth study is crucial to understanding the best
> ways to teach low-literate adults," said Assistant Secretary
> D'Amico, Office of Vocational and Adult Education. "Armed with
> scientifically-based reading instruction methods we can equip adults
> with the reading and writing skills needed for better jobs and
> opportunities."
> 
> For more information and a summary document, go to:
> http://www.nichd.nih.gov/crmc/cdb/AFL_workshop.htm
> 
>       To view the Reading Research Working Group document, go to:
>       http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/adult_reading/adult_reading.html
> 
> 
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