Judi 
glad to be of some assistance 
believe me the Internet works very much in our favour too being so far away 
One of the reasons I know about this material is I am the Manager of the New Zealand Literacy Portal www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz  so I spend a lot of time looking at online resources 
 
David 
I know there are other materials  around - not necessarily as comprehensive as the UK stuff but still very useful 
The great thing about the UK embedded material is they keep on tdeveloping  more and more material 
Will get back to you with more information 
 
Regards Susan 
 

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Johnson, Judi
Sent: Thu 26/01/2006 9:31 a.m.
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: RE: [Workplace] Customer Service for ESL


Thank you so very much for these links.  I just looked through the curriculum and it's very close to what I'm looking for.  I can customize it, but just needed a starting point.
Thanks again for taking the time to send me this,
I'm in Seattle, Washington and you're in New Zealand? Wow! I love the internet!
Judi Johnson

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	From: Susan Reid on behalf of Susan Reid 
	Sent: Sun 1/22/2006 9:33 PM 
	To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List 
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	Subject: RE: [Workplace] Customer Service for ESL
	
	
	Hi Judi 
	 
	I don't know how helpful this will be to you 
	In the UK under their Skills for Life Strategy they have developed a lot of online materials for a whole range of occupations. They have 'embedded' literacy, language and numeracy skill development into these materials  
	Here is the url for the list of occupations 
	 
	http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/embeddedlearning/cfbtgeneralinfo.cfm
	 
	One of them Retail has got a module on customer Service - it is not necessarily specifically designed for ESL learners and will refer to the UK Literacy and ESOL Curricula which will be of no interest to you and there will be interesting cross cultural issues between the UK and the USS  but I thought the section might be useful as a starting point 
	http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/embeddedlearning/searchresults.cfm?setting=retail
	 
	We think the materials are great not only for content but also ideas and approaches. however we share the metric system used in the UK but hopefully that won't be an issue for Customer Service 
	 
	Hope it proves of some use  to you 
	 
	Susan Reid 
	Manager, Consultancy Services
	Workbase the New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy 
	www.workbase.org.nz
	www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz
	 

	
	
	
	 

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