Subscribers,
I have begun trying to send each new subscriber to the Workplace Literacy 
Discussion List a welcome and an invitation to introduce themselves to the 
list.  Find below the reply/introduction of Michael Gyori.  Welcome, 
Michael!  I notice from your website (see URL in Michael's signature line) 
that your program does offer some workplace skills training, though it 
doesn't seem to be your main focus.  Is this offered as a separate class or 
focus, or is it offered in conjunction with some of the other content 
areas, say, ESOL training (which you seem to have a lot of)?  And another 
question I have for you: What do you hope to be able to find and use on the 
Workplace Literacy Discussion List?

Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself.
Donna Brian, moderator
National Institute for Literacy Workplace Literacy Discussion List
djgbrian at utk.edu


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I've been in the field of second and foreign language education for 30 
years. I am a first-generation immigrant. My mother tongue is Hungarian, 
and English is my third and, having been educated in American and British 
schools, educationally dominant language. I attended universities in 
France, Germany, Mexico, and California, and also studied in Israel. My 
graduate work is in TESOL / educational linguistics.

After working with Berlitz for six years in Germany and Switzerland in the 
70s and 80s, I decided to exit corporate life. My wife, who is from Ankara, 
Turkey, and I ended up settling on Maui in 1983. In 1986, I started the ESL 
program at Hui Malama Learning Center, a (in the meantime) sizeable and 
multi-faceted non-profit community-based organization (CBO). Except for two 
years of further study in California, I have been in charge of that program 
ever since.

I work with a very broad range of non-native English-speaking students in 
terms of socioeconomic, national, educational, and linguistic backgrounds. 
I am also in partnership with the Hawai'i Department of Education as a CBO 
adult education provider, as well as public schools to help promote the 
educational, social, and personal success of immigrant students by means of 
ESL family literacy programs.

Aloha,
Michael

Michael A. Gyori
Language Development & Technology Director
Hui Malama Learning Center
160 N. Market St., Ste. A
Wailuku, HI 96793, USA
Tel/Fax: (808) 249-0111 / 249-0119
E-mail: michael.gyori at huimalama.org
Web: www.huimalama.org


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