Learning Apart Together: Student Profiles in Adult Literacy Classes in the Netherlands

Until recently, the Dutch adult education policy distinguished between L1 and L2 adult education. Times have been changing, however, and the traditional L1 classes have evolved into increasingly multilingual ones. This paper presents the results of a study aimed at investigating the different student profiles in these adult education classes. Participants in the study were 237 students from eight different adult education centers and their teachers. In addition to background data on the students (e.g., age, age upon entry to the Netherlands, education, L1), we collected data on five different... Mehr ...