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du Buisson, Theuns – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Conducting undergraduate studies in the English language, while only a small minority of students speak English at home, poses many problems to learning in the South African context. This article explores how restrictive language policies may influence proper learning and impact negatively on the self-understanding of students. It also explores…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Multilingualism, Tutorial Programs, Undergraduate Study
Cullen, Theresa A.; Cobb, Inger C. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
This study reports the results of a needs analysis of literacy programs for a library system serving three rural and suburban counties. It examines the computing skills and needs of literacy tutors as well as native-speaking and English language learner (ELL) literacy tutees enrolled in the programs. Paper surveys were mailed to tutors, who were…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Counties, Tutors, Adult Literacy
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
Baik, Chi; Greig, Joan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
This article examines the impact of an adjunct English language tutorial program on the academic performance of first-year Architecture students. With increasing numbers of international students enrolling in Australian universities, language and academic skills programs have shifted from generic to more discipline-specific models; however, there…
Descriptors: Intervention, Tutorial Programs, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Slavin, Robert E.; And Others – 1990
This study reports results of the first year of implementation of the Success for All elementary school restructuring program in kindergarten through third grade at Philadelphia's Francis Scott Key Elementary School. Fifty-two percent of the students were from Asian backgrounds, primarily Cambodian, and spoke little or no English at home. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
Moravian Coll., Bethlehem, PA. – 1983
Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, received a grant and organized a recruitment campaign to obtain college student volunteers for area literacy councils. The campaign structure included: (1) contacting education departments in eastern Pennsylvania colleges and acquainting them with literacy councils, adult basic education, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, College Students, Conferences
Willoughby, Mary – 1990
The goal of this program was to reach an unserved group of non-literate adults with limited English proficiency through the provision of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) tutoring by local library and community literacy programs. Nine area resource teachers and a master teacher trainer provided training for 211 teachers and volunteer tutors who,…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Limited English Speaking
Ward, Annita Marie – 1995
A study investigated the effectiveness of a Salem-Teikyo University (West Virginia) program of English-as-a-Second-Language conversational tutoring for a cohort of 185 Japanese students and a similar but smaller Japanese-as-a-Second-Language tutoring program for the English-speaking cohort. Data were gathered through surveys of faculty (n=4),…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Ronacher, Karl; And Others – 1990
The Required Academic Proficiency (RAP) program was established by the Houston (Texas) Independent School District to reduce and remediate the academic failure of students. The purpose of the RAP program was twofold: (1) to provide supplemental instruction to students identified as being at risk of failing academic subjects; and (2) to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, English (Second Language)
Simpson, William M.; Koehler, C. Russell – 1984
The pilot project described and evaluated in this report was conducted at Olympic College to test the assignment of volunteer classroom assistants under the supervision of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors to help individualize classroom instruction. Section I introduces the project, the college and its…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Program Descriptions

Agar, David L. – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Describes the Academic Support Programme (ASP) established at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in response to (1) the disadvantaged educational background of Black students and their consequently high dropout rate, and (2) the projected increases in the enrollment of such students. ASP primarily serves students whose home…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Black Students, College Students
Patel, Fay – 1991
Initiatives are described that have been undertaken by the Student Development Tutorship Programme at the M.L. Sultan Technikon in South Africa, a program established in 1990 to provide assistance and support to disadvantaged students, primarily Black students from areas with inadequate facilities and instructors in the "homelands" and…
Descriptors: Black Students, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Guerrero, Frank; Abbott, Lori – 1990
This first volume of a four-volume evaluation of the 1988-89 New York City School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program) comprises reports evaluating 10 innovative projects that provide reading, mathematics, writing, English as a Second Language, and computer literacy instruction. Evaluation sources included student…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hirsch, Linda – 1988
Focusing on English as a second language (ESL) students' cognitive difficulties in content courses, a study evaluated the Retention Exemplary Model Project for 1986-87 of Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. The project's goal was to help advanced and post-ESL students acquire the language and cognitive skills required to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Frazier, Connie; Freer, Carol – 1989
From August 1988 to June 1989, Rock Valley college, in cooperation with a local literacy council and the English Language Study Center, administered a project whose goal was to recruit, provide tutoring to, and provide English-as-a-Second-Language classes to employees at their place of employment. The project functioned well, with each partner…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Grants, Higher Education
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