Integrated Language Skills: An Approach to Developmental Studies.

Autor/in	Joseph, Nancy
Institution	Lake City Community Coll., FL.
Titel	Integrated Language Skills: An Approach to Developmental Studies.
Quelle	(1984), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Achievement Gains; Basic Skills; Community Colleges; Developmental Studies Programs; Language Skills; Program Effectiveness; Remedial Instruction; Teaching Methods; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges; Vocabulary Skills; Writing Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Community college; Community College; Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Förderkurs; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aktiver Wortschatz; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit
Abstract	A language skills program was developed at Lake City Community College to increase remedial students' chances of academic success in college courses. The program concentrates first on developing students' speaking and listening skills and then proceeds to more complex reading and writing skills. The program provides 16 weeks of developmental study for academically underprepared students, during which skills in oral communication, listening comprehension, grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, paragraph writing, reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and study skills are approached in an integrated manner. An evaluation of the program involved two groups of students: an experimental group (N=26) of students who completed the language skills program and subsequently the college's basic English course, and a control group (N=25) of students who completed only the basic English course. The groups were compared on the basis of pre- and post-test measures of vocabulary and reading comprehension, and final grades in the English course. The results indicated that the experimental group performed better on both the vocabulary and comprehension tests and averaged a full letter grade higher than the control group in the English course. (HB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01