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Download full textKaya, Suat – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
This study was conducted to examine the needs of the students of cabin services program regarding English in order to guide the design of a vocational English language curriculum. The research design used in this study was the concurrent triangulation approach, one of the mixed methods models. This approach can be used when the researcher collects…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Vocational English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Air Transportation
Noren, Karen Lee – 1990
The vocabulary-building curriculum is designed for students, teachers, coordinators, and curriculum developers in vocational English as a Second Language. The curriculum gives high intermediate to advanced students background for a course in beginning carpentry, surveying the essential tools and materials used in the carpenter's workplace.…
Descriptors: Carpentry, Course Content, Equipment, Literacy Education
Aik, Kam Chuan – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988
The development of "English for Occupational Purposes" (EOP) by a team of seven authors and two project directors for EOP classes at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore is described. Aspects included the prewriting stage; analyses of the teaching, learning, and target situations analysis; writing and editing; and postwriting stage. (LB)
Descriptors: Authors, Editing, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
Northwest Educational Cooperative, Des Plaines, IL. – 1985
This guide provides the curriculum materials used in a program designed to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) life-skills or vocational instruction for refugees in the Chicago metropolitan area, concentrating on the general vocational ESL skills to be taught. An overall introduction to the program is followed by a section on work English…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Interpersonal Competence
Derge, William; Kudirka, Joi – 1986
The curriculum developed by the Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Manpower Services in Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) program is a response to the needs of Southeast Asian refugees for language and cross-cultural skills and to employers' needs for support services. The core curriculum, emphasizing fluency and listening…
Descriptors: County Programs, Curriculum Development, Employment Potential, Immigrants
Roberts, Marie; Walton, Teresa – 1993
A 16-week, 600-hour Office Skills Training curriculum for limited English proficient (LEP) adults is presented. The course is divided equally between the vocational training component and the language component. It is recommended that students have an intermediate level of English language proficiency, but no experience in typing or filing is…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Clerical Occupations, Job Skills, Limited English Speaking
Grover, Jane; Mrowicki, Linda – 1985
This document is intended to help service providers and state staff design, implement, and evaluate vocational English language training (VELT) programs for refugees who are not proficient in English. Section 1 is a user's guide that explains why VELT programs exist, states VELT assumptions, lists the benefits of VELT programs, and describes in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Resources, Foreign Workers
Turkewych, Christine – TESL Talk, 1986
Describes how evaluation strategies can be implemented to increase the effectiveness of English in the Work Place programs. Discusses the design and implementation of the strategy, how to analyze its results and produce a final report, and ways to get the results used. (SED)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Inplant Programs, Marketing, Multicultural Education
Price-Machado, Donna – 1998
Three specific classroom techniques for teaching vocational English as a Second Language to adults are discussed. They are three items on the SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) list of "easy things" to do to integrate workplace basics into the classroom, designed to encourage a student-focused classroom. They…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Ingram, Pam – 1994
This document is the teacher's edition of a learning module designed to help nonnative English speakers develop basic workplace reading and writing skills. It was developed by educators from the Emily Griffith Opportunity School. The curriculum presented in the module is job specific and intended to serve as an example of how reading and writing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Learning Activities, Learning Modules
Los Angeles Community Coll. District, CA. Office of Occupational and Technical Education. – 1988
The bibliography is designed for learning center instructors at the Los Angeles Community College District who are involved in vocational education for limited-English-proficient (LEP) adults. The bibliography emphasizes vocational English-as-a-Second-Language (VESL) materials that develop occupation-related language skills. In addition to VESL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Ingram, Pam – 1994
This document is the teacher's edition of a learning module designed to help nonnative English speakers develop basic workplace mathematics skills. This module was developed by educators from the Emily Griffith Opportunity School. The math curriculum presented in how math might be taught to nonnative English speakers at a manufacturing worksite.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Cultural Differences, Learning Activities
Compass Points: New Directions for English Language Training, 1998
This document consists of the first four issues of a quarterly newsletter devoted to providing assistance to refugee service provisions across the United States in regard to English Language Training. Articles include the following: nature and national activities of the English Language Training Technical Assistance Project (ELT/TA); profiles of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language)
Northwest Educational Cooperative, Des Plaines, IL. – 1985
This guide outlines a curriculum designed to provide English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) life-skills instruction for refugees in the Chicago metropolitan area, concentrating on the Level One survival skills. Non-Southeast Asians account for more than half of those served, all of whom receive, or are at risk of receiving, public assistance. Most are…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
Martin, Sabrina Budasi – 1994
The curriculum guide is designed for a basic skills course for machine maintenance workers. The 12-week course is divided into three segments: English as a Second Language and vocabulary development; technical vocabulary and mathematics; and technical symbols, trouble-shooting, and word problems. For each of the three segments, a list of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Diagrams, Job Skills, Literacy Education
