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Direct linkBowers, Lisa M.; Schwarz, Ilsa – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Among the academic challenges faced by students from low-socioeconomic status (SES) homes is the loss of academic skills during the summer months. A total of 22 elementary students from low-SES homes participated in a summer program designed to improve oral and written narrative skills. We gathered oral and written narrative samples at the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Literacy Education, Reading Programs
Xu, Xiaoqiu; Padilla, Amado M.; Silva, Duarte; Masuda, Norman – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
This article describes a STARTALK intensive summer high school Mandarin language and culture program that was conducted for three summers. Participants across the three years included 40 Mandarin Level II and 53 Mandarin Level III high school students. Quantitative and qualitative data are presented to show the effectiveness of the program.…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedChlebek, Agnes; Coltrinari, Helen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
Details of arrangements, staff and program of two high school summer immersion French courses in Switzerland and France are presented. Suggestions are made for improvements. Students showed a remarkable increase in comprehension, vocabulary, and confidence in speaking French; attitudes were positive, students became more responsible and mature.…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction
Bailey, Donn F. – 1974
An appraisal of the study skills component of the Equal Opportunities Program's Summer Intensive Program at Pennsylvania State University in 1973 is the subject of this dissertation. Evaluation of certain aspects of this program was undertaken to determine whether a given teaching strategy (based on the structural method utilizing goal-setting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations
Download full textAbordo, Enrique J. – 1975
Evaluated was a summer program in reading and mathematics for handicapped pupils in special education classes designed to maintain and improve these skills through individualized and small group instruction. Initial diagnostic testing using criterion-referenced tests indicated target areas for basic skills instruction, which was implemented…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Donaldson, William S. – 1991
The Summer Academic Skills Enhancement Program was funded by the Private Industry Council (PIC) of Franklin County (Ohio) through the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to provide JTPA clients with the reading comprehension and language mechanics skills required for employment in entry-level positions. The program was coordinated by the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1969
This report is the final one in a trilogy stemming from the 1968 Summer Reading Institute in the Washington Model School Division. The Institute was designed to meet the needs of elementary school teachers in their attempts to teach language skills and reading to students in grades K-3. This follow-up study examines the results of the Summer…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Followup Studies
Epstein, Joyce L.; Herrick, Susan C. – 1991
In the summer of 1989, Summer Home Learning Packets in mathematics and language arts were distributed to seventh and eighth graders at Calverton Middle School (Maryland). The packets contained review exercises for students to complete with the help of their parents. In the first of the two studies reported in this document, "Reactions of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family School Relationship, Grade 7, Grade 8
Grossman, Herbert – 1992
The report describes the San Jose State University (California) teacher education program to prepare teachers of multicultural special education in elementary and secondary schools. It begins by describing the program's components, all related to bilingual special education teacher training: the training program itself; teacher certification; an…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
