Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had some kind of a break over the past week, and some
nice holiday festivities of one type or another! I didn't do an FOB
Article-of-the-Week last week, but will start back in today with one
that serves as another lead-in to our upcoming discussion of self study.
(Coming soon: January 15: "Concepts of Participation and Program
Support" from the latest issue!)

Studying ESOL Online
by Marisol Richmond, Marian Thacher, & Paul Porter
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=742

This is from issue 7C, which is about different modes of delivery of
adult basic education. In this article, the authors compare an online
delivery model to three others to explore the value of online study for
ESOL students. 

What kind of feedback have you gotten from students about online
self-study? What kinds of factors seem to make it work better?

All the best,
Julie



Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org


>>> "Julie McKinney" <julie_mcKinney at worlded.org> 12/19/06 11:15 AM >>>

Hi Everyone,
A couple weeks ago, we featured John Strucker's article about
"attendance turbulence", looking at the prevalence of students stopping
class for a period of time, and a proposed support for this habit. This
stop-and-go attendance pattern has been studied for some years now, and
we will be discussing this concept in a guest discussion in January with
Steve Reder about his article "Concepts of Participation and Program
Support". To help prepare for this topic, I thought it might be
interesting to look at some research from 1998 and look back at an
article from issue 2A, which looks at Learner Motivation from different
angles.

Stopping Out, Not Dropping Out: 
Students and teachers may perceive withdrawing from a program
differently
by Alisa Belzer
http://www.ncsall.net/?id=417

This describes a study which followed learners until they dropped out
for a while and looked at their and the teachers perceptions of dropping
out. Please take a look at this and let us know what your impressions
are!

All the best,
Julie

Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org

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