Adult-learning
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Created on July 10, 2021
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- Learners increase their effort when motivated by a need, an interest or a desire to learn.
- They are also motivated by the the relevance of the material to be adressed and learn better when material is related to their own needs and interests.
Adults learn at various rates and in different ways according to their intellectual ability, educational level, personality and cognitive learning styles.
- Adults learn best in democratic (determining how and waht they will learn), participatory and collaborative environment.
- Adults are goal-oriented as they want to know why they are learning something.
- They are autonomous and self-directed as they are self-reliant and prefer to work at their own pace.
- Adults have accumulated life experience and they come to English courses with these experiences and knowledge in diverse areas.
- Adults have established opinions, values and beliefs which have been built up over time and arrived at following experience of families, relationships, work, community, politics, etc.