The presenters, an administrator and teacher, explain how a grant from an airline company creates a new approach to career training programs in language classes. The administrator covers student selection procedures, essential for work placement. The teacher introduces expected and unexpected results from a real, live experience in the workplace. The presenters show how understanding traditions underpinning educational systems created contexts for devising case studies. They examine one specific case written for business students and consider future language learning challenges.
Local businesses provide an authentic context in which students can learn and use business English.
The presenter demonstrates how to enhance IEP business English programs through site visits at local corporate facilities. Participants examine ways of recruiting host companies, structuring effective visits, and integrating the visits into the curriculum. The presenter gives preliminary results of a review of final reports from federal workplace literacy programs to determine strategies used for recruitment, intake and assessment, curriculum development, instruction, support services, program structure, collaboration, institutionalization, and evaluation. The presenter identifies problems and successes across programs and makes recommendations for the future. Back to the menu of content area program listings.