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Wright, Jill – TESL Talk, 1978
Discusses several English as a second language programs held at the students' job site, in particular the Tip Top Project in Toronto. Other projects in Toronto are discussed as well as similar programs in the United States, England, and Sweden. (CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Inplant Programs, Job Skills, Language Instruction
Download full textFrost, Susan; Frazier, Connie – 1988
From August 12, 1987 to June 30, 1988, Rock Valley College, in cooperation with the Rockford Area Literacy Council and the college's English Language Study Center, administered a state grant entitled "Private Sector Partnerships for English Literacy." The goal of this project was to recruit and provide tutoring and classes for students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grants, Inplant Programs, Labor Education
Bean, Robert – 1992
The evolution of the Workplace Education Service that operates in South Australia is chronicled. Begun as a single program designed to integrate workplace literacy, English as a Second Language, and literacy education for both native and non-native English-speakers in an automobile plant, the project grew into a network of programs and services in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Inplant Programs, Literacy Education
Norris, Cynthia Zylkuski; Breen, Patricia K. – 1990
A description is provided of the Lower Merrimack Valley Workplace Education Project (WEP), an educational project that offers English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and job-specific education classes to hourly employees in the Semiconductor Division of Alpha Industries. The challenge of the project was to create a WEP that could accommodate the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Industrial Training
Stein, Sondra G. – 1989
The Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative was established in 1986 to create 6 model workplace literacy education programs and later expanded, with state and federal funding, to more than 20 programs at over 40 worksites. The initiative was developed in response to the growing recognition of functional illiteracy in an increasingly complex…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Federal Aid, Inplant Programs, Labor Education
Frazier, Connie; Freer, Carol – 1989
From August 1988 to June 1989, Rock Valley college, in cooperation with a local literacy council and the English Language Study Center, administered a project whose goal was to recruit, provide tutoring to, and provide English-as-a-Second-Language classes to employees at their place of employment. The project functioned well, with each partner…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Grants, Higher Education
Wales, M. L. – 1993
A discussion of the content of workplace English programs for limited-English-speaking immigrants to Australia focuses on the proportions of general and work-specific course content in those programs. It draws, in part, on results of a 1989 study of one workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program. It is proposed that reasons for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Course Content, Curriculum Design
Connector, 1996
Four newsletter issues address aspects of adult immigrant education for employment. The first focuses on the manufacturing industry, with articles describing a Pima County Adult Education (Arizona) program concerning quality standards, an El Paso Community College (Texas) program for employees of companies in transition, and survey results on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
