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Download full textIngersoll, Cynthia – 2001
The paper investigates how adult immigrants with low literacy levels are being taught language skills in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. Particular attention is paid to the reasons why large English-as-a-Second-Language programs (ESL) in the area do not offer native language literacy (NLL) courses and why some students seek NLL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Language Minorities
Mercurio, Kristine – 1992
Project Data Tech targeted Spanish- and Haitian-speaking students of limited English proficiency at a high school in Brooklyn. Students who were admitted scored at or below the 40th percentile on the Language Assessment Battery, were new arrivals into the country, and wanted to join the computer-aided drafting (CAD) or cosmetology programs.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Computer Assisted Design, Cosmetology
Clark, Andrew – 1992
Under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Project Alternative Learning Methodologies through Academics (Project ALMA) in New York City was evaluated. It was designed to emphasize acquisition of English language and mathematics and computer skills. High school students were to take English as a Second Language (ESL) and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Literacy, English (Second Language)
