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Haas, Teri; Smoke, Trudy – Journal of Developmental Education, 1990
Recommends instituting conversation workshops to help English-as-a-Second-Language students acquire language competence and factual and cultural knowledge. Reviews Hunter College's workshop program whereby students work with peer tutors in a writing lab discussing various informal and academic topics or the information covered in specific content…
Descriptors: Colleges, Communication Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Exchange
de Silva, Deema; And Others – 1992
This handbook provides assistance for tutors in Operation Success, a program to provide limited-income and first-generation college students with academic support services to enable them to persist and graduate from Wichita State University (Kansas). The program provides an interconnected series of academic support services; peer tutoring is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cognitive Style, College Students, Communication Skills