Project-Based Learning for Adult English Language Learners
Donna Moss, Arlington (VA) Education and Employment Program (REEP)Carol
Van Duzer, National Center for ESL Literacy EducationDecember 1998
Project-based learning is an instructional approach that contextualizes
learning by presenting learners with problems to solve or products to develop.
For example, learners may research adult education resources in their community
and create a handbook to share with other language learners in their program, or
they might interview local employers and then create a bar graph mapping the
employers, responses to questions about qualities they look for in employees.
This digest provides a rationale for using project-based learning with adult
English language learners, describes the process, and gives examples of how the
staff of an adult English as a second language (ESL) program have used
project-based learning with their adult learners at varying levels of English
proficiency.
Delia Arias on 30 Jan 13PBL
