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ELT Journal 1992 46(4):362-372; doi:10.1093/elt/46.4.362
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Adults dropping out? Try Repgrid!

Lorna V. Rowsell

Lorna Rowsell teaches Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has a BA and a Diploma in Education from the University of London, an MA from the University of Calgary, and a PhD from the University of Lancaster. After many years of teaching adult ESL students, she chose to study drop-out from Canadian ESL classrooms, and is now investigating the strategies of completely autonomous language learners

This article is concerned with classroom related reasons for drop-out from the adult ESL classroom. It presents a novel method of discovering how adult students from various different cultural backgrounds perceive language learning events. The instrument used, called Repertory Grid Technique, or ‘Repgrid’, is based on Kelly's (1955) Theory of Personal Constructs. This theory, and its associated instrument, seem relevant for research in the multicultural classroom, since Kelly's work is concerned with the belief that everyone perceives the world differently according to varying background experience. It is hoped that the use of this awareness-raising tool can lead to greater mutual understanding between students and teachers in the multicultural adult ESL classroom.1


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