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Community College Students’ Awareness Of Their Reading And Writing Proficiency, Martha Paulina Campusano Rojas
Community College Students’ Awareness Of Their Reading And Writing Proficiency, Martha Paulina Campusano Rojas
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Student’s low reading and writing proficiency in higher education has been the subject of a large body of research (e.g., Bahr, 2011; Bailey, 2010; Carlino, 2005, 2010, 2012; Flink, 2017; Jaggars, 2014 Pacello, 2014; Perin, 2011; Perin et al., 2013).The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how students in a first-year developmental Spanish course at the Dominican community college think of the connection between their reading and writing abilities and their performance in both their current and future undergraduate courses. The study also explored how these students view the importance of the developmental course and how they understand …