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Anas Hajar; Almira Tabaeva – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Private tutoring (PT) has significantly expanded worldwide in recent decades. Despite its popularity and implications for the operation of formal education systems and cultural and social development, research on English private tutoring (EPT) is still in its infancy. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory (1994), this mixed-methods study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Somé-Guiébré, Esther – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This paper examines how the children of African immigrants construct their identity in the United States. The U.S. immigration policies allowing citizens of foreign countries to migrate into the country, have favored the immigration of many Africans into the country. Many of those immigrants experience challenges ranging from language and economic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Self Concept, Public Policy
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Jaeger, Elizabeth L. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
The study described here is a case analysis of an emergent bilingual and her English literacy development. Mobilizing identity theory, the study explores ways in which the young girl's language and literacy identities played out across the large group, small group, and tutorial settings for instruction. The study took place over one school year.…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Case Studies, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language)
Fitts, Shanan; Gross, Lisa A. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2012
In teacher preparation programs across the United States, early field experiences are considered to be an effective method of providing teacher candidates with opportunities to observe and interact with children (National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE, 2010). These practicum arrangements assist candidates in developing…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Tutorial Programs, Preservice Teachers, Field Experience Programs
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
"Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies" is a peer-tutoring program for use in elementary school classrooms to improve student proficiency in reading. Its purpose is to supplement students' existing reading curriculum. "Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies" was developed for use with students with diverse academic needs and has been…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Classrooms
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Sakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction