Participants will also learn to use aids lawyers use to interpret materials such as case notes, on-line services, and study guides. This model is now being developed institution wide by teams of content and ESOL professors at a new Japanese college. The presenter encourages comments about the model and will use these to revise his description of it. She presents a model of the optimal procedure for designing EAP reading courses. This poster display illustrates the activities of young immigrants in a high school pilot project designed to prepare them for the world of work.
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This poster session presents aspects of course design and methodology relating to an ESP course taught at a university in South Australia that prepares migrant nurses of language backgrounds other than English for registration as nurses and entry into the workforce. The display consists of diagrams and charts with accompanying photos and minimal explanatory text. The United Arab Emirates University ESP staff's innovative three-pronged approach to these problems is presented. Although content-specific, the problems are universal and the approach is useful for teachers in a less than ideal environment. Students identify grammatical difficulties from their own writing and previous research to construct and administer a questionnaire on error gravity.