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Walker, Elizabeth – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on part of an evaluation of a 2-year program providing preparatory support for 430 Cantonese Chinese-native-speaking students switching from Chinese to English-medium instruction late in their secondary schooling, mainly because of aspiration to English-medium tertiary study. Focusing quantitatively and qualitatively on…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
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Lynch, Brian K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Responds to criticism concerning a proposed model of evaluation for a Reading English for Science and Technology program. (seven references) (JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Models, Program Evaluation
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Swales,John M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Discusses a proposed "context adaptive" model for English-as-a-Second-Language program evaluation and suggests that the boundaries are set too narrowly within this model between phenomena and contexts and that the model of the Reading English for Science and Technology program in Guadalajara (Mexico) suffers from this constriction.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries, Models