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Perun, Stefan Austin – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
This article explores the learning experiences of two students in the same college-level English course at Urban Serving Community College (USCC) (pseudonym). The objective was to understand how one student met with success and the other failure despite both successfully completing their developmental English course the semester prior. I observed…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College English, Learning Experience
Bickerstaff, Sarah; Raufman, Julia – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
This paper documents the perceptions and experiences of faculty members in the midst of statewide reform efforts in Virginia and North Carolina to integrate developmental reading and writing courses. Using interview and focus group data from 161 faculty and administrators in both states (combined) as well as three detailed case studies of faculty…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Reading, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
Finn, Heather B.; Avni, Sharon – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This qualitative study offers critical insight into how language policy interacts with daily classroom decisions at a large and highly diverse urban community college in the United States. Specifically, it examines the challenges that faculty teaching developmental writing courses for English language learners experience when determining what…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Language Planning, Literacy
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Ashby, Sjon F. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
English teachers encourage writing that opens college students to transformative learning through soul work as John Dirkx describes and develops the concept of soul work in his theory of transformative learning. This soul work involves the conscious attempt to bring to the surface myths, images, and metaphors from the unconscious through…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, English Instruction, Two Year Colleges, College Faculty
Wang, Manhui Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
While many college students at two-year public colleges need Basic Writing classes before entering college-level writing courses, only 34% have successfully passed their Basic Writing classes (Ternes, 2008). Troyo (2000) maintained that the reason students failed in Basic Writing classes was that more research-based effective teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Basic Skills, Writing Skills, Instructional Effectiveness