Supporting Adult Learners

Overview:

This resource is a study which evaluated a new language learning program for new immigrants from Ethiopia, who are illiterate in their mother tongue.

The program developed a new model, communicative -multicultural -neuropsychological model, based on Vygotsky’s cultural-historical approaches and Luria’s cultural neuropsychology.

Reference: Kotik-Friedgut, B., Schleifer, M., Golan-Cook, P., & Goldstein, K. (2014). A Lurian systemic-dynamic approach to teaching illiterate adults a new language with literacy. Psychology & Neuroscience, 7(4), 493-501.

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