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Key factors that motivate or impede adult learners to enrol and remain in literacy, language and numeracy initiatives – a review:

Literature review looking at what internal and external (to the person) factors prevent or encourage people to enrol and persist in a course of literacy, language and numeracy learning.

Lead researchers: Sue Watson, Jude Van Wichen Miller and Elizabeth Bowen (Lift Education).

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