Abstract
This study aims to explore how adult learners’ linguistic skills in English can be improved by incorporating andragogy in the formal teaching context. It was an action research, conducted for one year along with two different cohorts enrolled in the Master’s program of Educational Planning and Management in the Department of Education at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. Data was collected by involving learners into the planning and evaluation process through structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Learners were further divided into the sub-categories of Traditional and Non-traditional adult learners for ascertaining the impact of andragogical teaching across these categories on their linguistic performance in English. Comparative descriptive analysis of learners’ performance shows sustained and better performance of Non-traditional Adult Learners in both cohorts. The study concludes that understanding various characteristics of adult learners, adult learning and through integration of andragogical principles teachers can promote proactivity towards learning among their learners and broaden their own professional competence.It has implications for all the teachers who have been teaching traditional and non-traditional adult learners in various universities of Pakistan in general.
Saima Qayyum. (2017) Teaching English Andragogically to Adult EPM Learners, The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1.
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