Volume 11, Number 06, May 2021

Classroom Acts on Low Literacy Adults Education Settings

  Authors

Carlos Luís^{1, 2}, Helena Afonso³ and Maria José Marcelino¹, ¹CISUC and FCTUC Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, ²IEFP-Centro de Formação Profissional de Coimbra, Portugal, ³IEFP-Delegação Regional do Centro IEFP Coimbra, Portugal

  Abstract

This paper starts by discussing the relevance of dialogues in Adult Education and Training courses with low levels of literacy. In this group, the educational challenges are complex, and innovating the knowledge creation process involves a better understanding of the teaching/learning process. With these case study, we pretend to understand which Communicative Acts are effective in adult learning process, mainly in adults with low literacy.

Based on a mixed methods, applied to a convenience sample, we used an ethnographic approach, and the Grounded Theory Methodology. The results showed that it was important to integrate the learners' emotions in an existing framework, the SEDA Framework. We found also essential to expand the Communicative Acts coding, with a new set of 17 codes organized in 3 categories.

  Keywords

Adult Education; Literacy; Classroom acts; learning environments; Human-Computer-Interaction.