A considerable theoretical importance is assigned to the use of authentic texts in testing reading comprehension. There is, however, a dearth of research that could provide the practical justification for such importance. Recently, some researchers began to question the speculat…
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People of different cultures tend to have different cognitive processing styles. Philosophers throughout the years have believed that culture fundamentally shapes human social practices and intellectual processes (Nisbett, 2004). Cognitive styles have been found to be significan…
The role of basic language processing components, in general, and that of lower-level phonological and orthographic processing skills, in particular, is not well understood in second language reading. Most research in second and foreign language (L2) reading has followed top-dow…
Individuals learning a second language improve their cultural and social communications when coupling language skills with cultural awareness of a target area. Comprehensive foreign language structures combined with culture, traditions, and target-area experiences are contributi…
This study investigated the role of demographic characteristics and employment variables in predicting adult learners' academic success as defined by their cumulative grade point average (CGPA). The impact of work experience on students' academic success was further examined. Th…
This study is an examination of the use of English definite and indefinite articles in 900 compositions written by 475 adult ESL students from nine different L1 backgrounds: Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish, in response to these q…
Today, education may be arguably the most critical factor in Black males’ lives. With the world that it is and how Black males have fought for their entire lives, education and knowledge are the only things that cannot be taken away from Black men. With the ever-increasing rate …
This phenomenological study explores lived experiences of part-time adjunct faculty serving part-time, non-traditional students. The participants taught at community colleges for multiple years and relied somewhat or entirely on their income as adjuncts to support themselves fin…
The conditions of effective learning in relation to prior and ongoing individual developmental experience were investigated within an adult education context in Saudi Arabia. Numerous models of theoretically appropriate adult development were examined, with a primary emphasis on…