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• Adult Learners' Lives Project: Setting the Scene
• Adult literacy and numeracy interventions and outcomes: an exploratory study a review of controlled trials
• Adult Numeracy: review of research and related literature
• Assessing Adult Literacy and Numeracy: a review of assessment instruments
• Community-focused provision in adult literacy, numeracy and language: an exploratory study
• Developing adult reading skills: an exploration of text-, sentence-, and word-level reading difficulties
• Developmental dyslexia in adults: a research review
• Effective approaches to the teaching and learning of writing: a report of phase 1 of the project
• Effective Teaching and Learning: Writing
• Embedded teaching and learning of adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL
• English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - case studies of provision, learners' needs and resources
• English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the workplace: review of research and related literature
• Financial Literacy Education and Skills for Life
• ICT and adult literacy and numeracy
• Identifying effective workplace basic skills strategies for enhancing employee productivity and development
• Illuminating disadvantadge
• Literacy and numeracy for adults with disabilities and learning difficulties: a review and exploration
• Literature review of ESOL for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
• Models of Adult Learning: a literature review of models applicable to Skills for Life
• New initial teacher education programmes for teachers of literacy, numeracy and ESOL 2002/03: an exploratory study
• Provision of, and learner engagement with, adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL in rural England. A comparative case study
• Putting good practice into practice: literacy, numeracy and key skills within apprenticeships
• Skills for Life core curriculum training programmes 2001-03: characteristics of teacher participants
• Skills for Life teachers' qualifications and their learners' progress in adult numeracy
• The benefits to employers of raising workforce basic skills: a literature review
• The Digital Divide: Computer Use, Basic Skills and Employment
• The impact of adult literacy and numeracy levels on small businesses in rural Lincolnshire and Rutland: a case study
• The Learner Study
• The Teacher Study
• Understanding the relationships between learning and teaching: a review of them contribution of applied linguistics