A singular case study is described in which an elderly, immigrant woman, a total illiterate but a proficient speaker of English is taught to read to a fourth grade level in a relatively short period of time. The instructional method 1s described and related to Goodman's "Psycholinguistic Guessing Game Model." Researcher observations on the positive affective results of the subject's experience are recorded.
This study examines previous studies concerned with Adult Basic Edu cation (ABE) teacher competencies to corroborate their findings and to discuss the competencies in relation to their implications for ABE teacher training where the community college is the agency responsible for the administration of ABE programs.
Adult Basic Education teachers and administrators in five New Englandstates were asked to rate 17 areas of teacher competency as derived from Mocker (1974). Five exploratory hypotheses of no difference between the two groups were postulated and analyzed using t tests. A sixth hypothesis of no difference in ranking of the competencies was also postulated and analyzed via the Spearman Rho.No significant differences were revealed in analysis, thus supporting Mocker's findings. Implications of the findings for training community college teachers of ABE are then discussed in the context of relating training objectives to validated competencies.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.