Instructional Principles and Approaches to English Course Design in Continuing Educatio

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10.2991/hssnpp-19.2019.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EFL communicative competence, adult language learning, visual thinking, web technologies, guided discovery activities

Abstract

This study aims to design the program and instruction of an English course that stimulates adult learners' engagement in language learning and English communicative competence development in the continuing education. The authors have discussed the principles and approaches of adult education to the course design (personalized approach, meaningful learning, principles of visual education, technology-based communication) and efficacy of four classroom management strategies: a visual thinking strategy, video-based discussions, guided discovery activities, web-technologies-based communication tasks. The findings in this study prove the improvement of English communicative competence in adult learners.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - I.V. Kulamikhina
AU  - Zh.B. Esmurzaeva
AU  - S.V. Danilova
AU  - O.A. Zhbikovskaya
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Instructional Principles and Approaches to English Course Design in Continuing Educatio
BT  - Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 379
EP  - 385
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/hssnpp-19.2019.71
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