Teaching Adult Literacy: Principles and Practice

by Nora Hughes and Irene Schwab

Book Overview

Are you teaching or training to teach literacy to adult learners? Do you want to update and deepen your practice? Yes Then this is the essential book for you In this book, the authors offer friendly guidance on how to work with adult learners to develop their literacy skills and practices. They challenge the negative view of adult literacy learners as social 'problems', often described in terms of their deficits. They promote an alternative view of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335237363
• ISBN13: 9780335237364
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"