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Renée DePalma; Juan-Miguel Ortega-Herráez; Maribel Del-Pozo-Triviño; María-Isabel Abril-Martí – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
Non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) are responsible for ensuring basic human rights for socially marginalised people. In situations of migration, people's opportunity to regularise their migratory status and to secure their fundamental rights to key public services is entirely dependent on communication with the local…
Descriptors: Translation, Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Husin, Mohd Zulfadli Mat; Radzuan, Noor Raha Mohd – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2021
English skills particularly in conversation are essential in workplace situations especially in the context of higher learning institutions. Little attention is being given to examining the needs of English communication skills and issues related to administrative support staff at their workplace particularly at public universities. A…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Blazer, Sarah; Fallon, Brian – Composition Forum, 2020
Writing centers provide a crucial site for multilingual writers to experience generative and productive conversation about their writing projects and for their language and cultural experiences to be appreciated as sources for meaning-making. For this to be possible, tutors must understand the phenomenon and problems of standard language ideology…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Standard Spoken Usage
Houston Independent School District, 2017
There are approximately 68,000 students in Houston Independent School District labeled as "English language learners" (ELLs). Many of these students have the additional obstacle of being recent immigrants who have been in the United States for three years or less. In recent years, the number of immigrant ELLs in the district has…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English Language Learners, Acculturation, Student Needs
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Prendergast, Mary – European Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the challenges facing Irish organisations in the training and development of non-Irish workers. It analyses the importance of fluency in the host country's language and the approach taken by organisations in relation to language training. In-depth semi-structured interviews provide significant insights for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Job Training, Industrial Training
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Bani-Salameh, Zakaria A.; Kabilan, Muhammad K.; Bani-Salalmeh, Lina – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
A multimedia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programme was developed to train flight attendants. The programme comprised of two units. Unit one is listening comprehension, which provides the flight attendants' with specific information of Airbus A340. Unit two is reading comprehension, which provides the flight attendants with the emergency…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Safety, Achievement Tests
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Barkan, M.; Toprak, E.; Kumtepe, A. T.; Kumtepe, E. Genc; Ataizi, M.; Pilanci, H.; Mutlu, M. E.; Kayabas, I.; Kayabas, B. Kip – Educational Media International, 2011
ELBEP (Eliminating Language Barriers in European Prisons Through Open and Distance Education Technology) is a multilateral project funded by the European Union (EU) Lifelong Learning, Grundtvig (Adult Education) Programme. It aims to overcome language/communication problems between prison staff and foreign inmates at European prisons via online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Problems, Distance Education, Correctional Institutions
Tse, Ivy Au – 1995
The Chinatown Manpower Workplace Literacy Program was funded by the United States Department from November 1, 1993 to April 30, 1995. The program consisted of three 18-week cycles, each comprised of 50 hours of instruction of garment-related English and English as a Second Language aimed at upgrading the literacy level of Chinese workers;…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Fashion Industry, Literacy Education
Thomson, Janet, Comp. – 1985
Results of and recommendations from the responses of 22 Great Falls secondary school language teachers to the Montana Foreign Language Needs Assessment survey are reported. Information presented includes the local teachers' educational background and their perceptions and attitudes about additional training in instructional techniques and testing,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Language Skills, Language Teachers, Needs Assessment
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Valeo, Antonella – TESL Canada Journal, 1998
A survey of workers participating in a manufacturing plant workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program resulted in these suggestions: schedule classes during the work day, with class time paid for, replace a cash incentive program; hold lessons in a meeting room, not cafeteria; and involve greater number of employees and employer in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Economic Factors, Employee Attitudes
Macias, Reynaldo F. – 1989
The national movement to reform education has paid little attention to the preparation and development of bilingual teachers. Recruitment and retention of bilingual teachers and the adoption of competencies and standards for bilingual teachers and teaching are two of the most important and pressing issues facing bilingual education in this…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Branaman, Lucinda E.; Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1998
A 1996-97 survey of 1,534 elementary and 1,650 secondary schools across the United States, both public and private, investigated current patterns in foreign language enrollment, languages and programs offered, curriculum design and content, teaching methods, teacher qualifications and training, and response to national reform issues. The study was…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Classroom Communication, Curriculum Design
Wink, Joan; Garcia, Herman S. – 1992
This paper summarizes an ethnographic study of three kindergarten and three first grade bilingual classrooms which investigated the impact on the school community of two conditions: (1) when teachers and staff were trained in cooperative methods for teaching and learning a second language; and (2) when the school initiated and implemented a parent…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Advisory Committees, Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning
Australian Dept. of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra. – 1996
A research project determined the impact of workplace language and literacy inclusive training (LLIT) on key aspects of the workplace in regard to the process of workplace change. Over 500 respondents in more than 30 different Australian workplaces representing 13 industries across 5 Australian states took part. The study developed and used five…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Hunter-Grundin, Elizabeth; Karagiorges, Andreas – 1983
English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction is a critical service provided by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA). ILEA operates 19 adult education institutions serving 275,000 part-time students in a 12-borough area where 131 different languages are spoken. To provide immigrant adults for whom English is a second language with the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Case Studies, Continuing Education
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