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Download full textZangari, Lora – 1999
The International English Training for Adults Program is an intensive ESL (English as a Second Language) program for foreign students. Students in the program take 18 hours of classes per week, including Conversation Partners, a 3-hour course designed to give students an opportunity to practice using English with Americans in a structured,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Conversational Language Courses
Shenk, Timothy – 1999
A study investigated the teaching of grammar in an advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) class in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For a week, the instructor taught the students on the topic of comparatives, superlatives, and equatives. The instructor gave a written pretest, posttest, and a delayed posttest to the whole class of 15-25 immigrants and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Conversational Language Courses
