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Flowers, George A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study conducted in the ESL program at a large community college investigated the symbiotic relationship between reading and second-language learning from the perspective of the class of post-secondary functional bilinguals sometimes referred to as Generation 1.5. These students are long-term, resident second-language (L2) English…
Descriptors: Coping, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Reading Ability
Li, Hongli – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Using a sequential mixed-methods design, this study examined the differences between two native language groups--those with an East Asian language background and those with a Romance language background--in regard to reading subskills as represented in the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) reading test, so as to provide…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Native Language, Asians