Hi Barbara:

 

I'd recommend the text Hotel English
(http://www.workplaceesl.com/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.workplaceesl.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&It
emid=25> &task=view&id=28&Itemid=25).  We've used it at a number of hotel
English classes, and it's been very successful.

 

Feel free to follow up with me directly if you have any additional
questions.

 

Regards,

 

Jill Bishop

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Barbara Jacala
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:17 PM
To: 'The Workplace Literacy Discussion List'
Subject: [Workplace 777] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training

 

Hello from the Western Pacific,

 

On Guam, our local hotel industry hosts Asian non-English speakers for a

one-year internship in the hospitality field. Our college provides the

English language course at the beginning of the year. I am interested in

instructional materials or textbooks that include basic English hospitality

trade terms and phrases that we can use in the course. Anyone?

 

Barbara Jacala

Guam Community College

 

 

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On

Behalf Of JURMO at ucc.edu

Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:13 AM

To: crandall at umbc.edu; workplace at nifl.gov

Subject: [Workplace 776] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training

 

Hello, All,

 

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think anyone in the US is tracking who is doing

work-related basic skills education on a national basis -- whether in

workplaces or non-workplace settings.  This would be a massive undertaking,

as whatever programs are out there are not generally funded by a central

funder and thus have no particular reason to report what they are doing to a

central place. 

 

However, a number of states do fund workplace basic skills programs -- which

might fall under the heading of "concurrent vocational and language

training."  Those states likely have databases of their respective programs.

To find out which states do or don't keep such databases, I'd suggest

contacting the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium

(www.naepdc.org).

 

In years past, reports from projects which participated in the National

Workplace Literacy Program (funded by the US Dept. of Ed.) were stored at

the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education at Ohio

State University.  Both of those programs were defunded, although there

still might be an archive containing those NWLP reports. 

 

 

Paul Jurmo, Ed.D.

Dean, Economic Development and Continuing Education Union County College

12-24 West Jersey Street

Elizabeth, NJ  07202

908-659-5103 telephone

908-965-6010 fax

Jurmo at ucc.edu 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On

Behalf Of JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall

Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:48 PM

To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List

Subject: [Workplace 775] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training

 

Hi Laurie, Amber and others,

 

This is an interest of mine as well.  There is a discussion of a concurrent

program at the College of Lake County in Illinois in a report that I wrote

with Forrest Chisman.  It combines vocational training in a number of areas

with VESL courses.  The program is provided at the community college,

however, not at the workplace.  The report, Passing the Torch, can be

downloaded from the website at www.caalusa.org

 

 

I am especially interested in learning more about programs like

these--either at educational institutions or at the workplace--for

health-related careers.

 

Jodi Crandall

 

 


> Hi Laurie -



> 



> This area of VESL is an interest of mine as well.  In answer to your 



> original question, I am relatively sure that there is *not* a 



> centralized database of these types of programs (based on my own


searches).


> 



> I teach and do curriculum development in a program that involves a 



> community college (like IBEST does) and the National Retail


Federation.


> We do a course that blends customer service training with ESL training


 


> - the goal of which is employment in retail sales.



> 



> The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades has also 



> designed an interesting program that combines their hard skill 



> apprenticeship curriculum with basic English skills.  However, that 



> program has not yet been implemented in IUPAT local unions.



> 



> I think most VESL programs are actually not like these - they're 



> vocationally-oriented English classes but without a real technical 



> skill component and the corresponding job placement/advancement goals.



> 



> Amber Gallup



> Washington, DC



> 



> Laurie Ketzenberg <lketzenberg at resolutionpictures.com> wrote:Re:



> [Workplace 769] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training


Yes,


> VESL brings up a gazillion hits.  And there are a gazillion 



> definitions of VESL.



> 



>  My interest is in hard skill training for NNS (health care, culinary 



> arts, building trades), where the goal is technical skill acquisition 



> and upward ladder job placement and retention.  This would likely 



> require interagency and interdisciplinary partnerships between ESL and


 


> Vocational agencies and instructors.



> 



>  IBEST in WA is one model I'm learning about ...



> 



> 



>  On 6/19/07 6:06 PM, "Ginnie Gorin" <ggorin at gmail.com> wrote:



> 



>  I would be very much interested in this as well.  Googling "VESL" 



> brings up some.



>  GG



> 



>  On 6/19/07, Laurie Ketzenberg < laurie at medivetproducts.com 



> <mailto:laurie at medivetproducts.com> > wrote:



>  Dear Colleagues,



> 



>  Is there a centralized database of programs that offer concurrent 



> vocational  and language skills training for non-native speakers of 



> English?



> 



>  Thanks!



>  Laurie



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