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Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2021
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication, "Integrated Approaches to Literacy and Skills Development: Examples of Best Practice in Adult Learning Programmes." This new compilation showcases 21 adult education programmes that demonstrate promising approaches to integrating literacy, life skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
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
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
Adamsky, Richard A.; And Others – 1987
The first part of this document provides a brief account of a project to develop learning modules on the microcomputer and the microscope for use with limited English-proficient speakers of other languages who are enrolled in vocational education courses. The bulk of the document consists of appendixes presenting the modules themselves. The…
Descriptors: Korean, Learning Modules, Limited English Speaking, Microcomputers
Tito, Maureen – 1990
Vocational English Second Language (VESL) programs have traditionally given immigrant, migrant, and refugee language learners access to employment. VESL programs provide not only the language input needed for learning specific job tasks but also address the sociocultural skills of language needed to negotiate in today's workplace. The demand for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Needs, Immigrants, Job Skills
