Stacey Margarita Johnson is currently at Vanderbilt University as the Assistant Director for Educational Technology in the Center for Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Spanish. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Hope College. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Culture SIG for ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Her research includes L2 teaching methodology, adult learning, and technology in language education.

Stacey Margarita Johnson has written a highly accessible analysis of adult beginners in a Spanish class, revealing how their learning is much more than acquiring competences. It transforms their lives and understanding of the world, and thus provides a much needed counter-balance to impoverished instrumental justifications for language teaching. Language learning enriches.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Adult Learning Theory    Chapter 3: Adult Language EducationChapter 4: This Class Chapter 5: How the Class was TaughtChapter 6: What Students Learned   Chapter 7: Transformation and DevelopmentChapter 8: ApplicationsReferencesAppendix