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Quality Versus Quantity in the Delivery of Developmental Programs for ESL Students
Author(s) -
Kurzet Reuel
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.10005
Subject(s) - remedial education , dilemma , community college , quality (philosophy) , psychology , medical education , english as a second language , pedagogy , mathematics education , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
When Portland Community College was hit with a burgeoning enrollment of non–native English speakers, college staff had to decide whether to increase course sections to accommodate twice as manystudents as they currently served, or to curtail enrollment and better serve those students who gained admission. This chapter discusses issues involved in the quality/quantity dilemma of providingremedial/developmental English–as–a–second–language programs.