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Download full textEscoe, Adrienne S. – 1977
The Communication Experience Approach (CEA), a modification of the Language Experience Approach to teaching reading, involves the use of group activities designed to help functionally illiterate persons learn basic communication skills. This paper first discusses six distinct processes in the CEA: setting a specific purpose for communicating,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Commins, Nancy L.; Miramontes, Ofelia B. – 1987
A study investigated the notion that bilingual students' low academic achievement may be due to semilingualism (having limited language skills) in each of the two languages, and the cognitive deficits that presumably result. The subjects were two boys and two girls from the fifth and sixth grades with low proficiency in either English or Spanish.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Case Studies
Snow, Catherine E.; And Others – 1991
This document is a report of a symposium whose participants are involved with the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development, a project engaged in a longitudinal study of 80 low-income families with preschool-aged children in Boston (Massachusetts). The project was designed to identify possible success factors for children from…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Early Experience, Educational Environment, Educational Theories
