Reading Profiles: Implications for Further Research

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Reading Profiles of US ABE and ESOL Learners
John Strucker, Research Associate/Lecturer in Education
NCSALL/Harvard Graduate School of Education

Implications for Further Research

• Instruction to match the student assessed need (differentiated instruction)
• How to use technology to assist low-level learners in instruction and to support job skills and assess learners
• Do we need to teach differently to speakers of native languages that are not based on the English alphabet?
• Does what we currently do still work with these students or not?
• Follow up to clusters to see how well they succeed
• How do we group clusters/students? What works to address diagnosed needs?
• Other adult learner populations, are they similar?; say community college students?
• How to make this work for small programs
• What are the reasons behind some of these results? More localized research with special populations such as farm workers
• Qualitative studies of a few individuals included in the study