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An Exploration Of American University-Based Tutoring Programs For English Language Learners, Jennifer Melissa Aguilera
An Exploration Of American University-Based Tutoring Programs For English Language Learners, Jennifer Melissa Aguilera
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The purpose of this mixed-methods explanatory sequential design study is to better understand university-level foreign students’ motivations for attending tutoring sessions. Forty-eight university students were selected based on their enrollment in a university's intensive English language learning program. This study involved two phases of data collection including surveying these students, and then following up with a focus group interview (Creswell, 2015). The 19-item questionnaire asked about perceptions of tutoring effectiveness, motivations for tutoring, and overall experiences with tutoring. Interview questions were informed by the results of the survey in order to further elicit student perspectives and enrich the overall description …