Ronna - I would love a copy and it would be much appreciated for our students  Deborah Dilker ddilker at brockport.edu, PO Box 48, Clarendon, NY  14429
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronna 
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:24 am
Subject: [Workplace 784] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language Training
To: 'The Workplace Literacy Discussion List' , barbara.jacala at guamcc.edu
Cc: 'Meredith Ledlie' 


> Our book, Hotel English is also 100% geared to hospitality :) 

> If anyone

> wants some sample chapters emailed, let me know. It was written with

> back-of-the house employees in mind.

> 

> Ronna Timpa

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-

> bounces at nifl.gov] On

> Behalf Of Wrigley, Heide

> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:39 PM

> To: barbara.jacala at guamcc.edu; The Workplace Literacy Discussion List

> Cc: Meredith Ledlie

> Subject: [Workplace 782] Re: Concurrent Vocational and Language 

> Training

> Hi, Barbara and others

> 

> LaGuardia Community College in New York City has developed a modern

> hospitality curriculum with funds from the Department of Labor 

> for a

> national demonstration project. It includes listening activities that

> students can download on MPE players and other very cool stuff. While

> they do not have a separate glossary that highlights essential words

> (may-be they do and I just don't remember seeing it), many of 

> the common

> phrases and expressions appear in their curriculum. 

> 

> I'm posting the link to the site for the national conference on 

> VESL and

> workplace ESL that LaGuardia hosted last November where a number of

> folks talk about what counts in linking ESOL and workforce 

> skills. All

> the speakers discuss several aspects of the integrated model 

> (followingon previous posts)

> 

> http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ace/bridges/proceedings.htm

> 

> 

> I am also cc'ing the LaGuardia folks directly so they speak for

> themselves and answer questions about their curriculum :) 

> 

> Cheers 

> 

> Heide Wrigley

> Literacywork International 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-

> bounces at nifl.gov] On

> Behalf Of Barbara Jacala

> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:17 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

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> 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 

> centralfunder 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 

> NationalWorkplace 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 

> College12-24 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 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" 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 

> > > 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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> > Temple University

> > Philadelphia, PA

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