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Download full textBosher, Susan – 1992
The Commanding English Program at the University of Minnesota is designed to meet the educational and social needs of academically underprepared students whose native language is not English. Most of the students in this population are Southeast Asian refugees with interrupted education who have finished high school in the United States. The…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College Curriculum, College Preparation, College Second Language Programs
Semke, Charles W.; Semke, Harriet D. – 1983
A small college in Iowa (Westmar College) undertook an experimental program to determine an experimental program to determine reading skills of underprepared students. Subjects were 20 students reading below the 12th grade level, of whom 9 were chosen randomly and offered a beginning German course instead of remedial reading. All elected to take…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, College Preparation, College Second Language Programs
