April 28, 2006
A Texas College Experiments With Class Schedules and Collaboration
When Cy-Fair College opened in August 2003, Carolyn Ho finally got the chance to test a theory she had about teaching English as a second language.
Her hunch was that if you scheduled the students' ESL classes in a back-to-back block, they would be able to master English more quickly because they would be immersed in the language for longer than the traditional one-hour class. And, she reasoned, if you kept the same students together as they progressed through the various ESL levels
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