Bilingual Vocational Education for Immigrants. Such limitations make the immigrant's earliest tasks difficult. Housing and food are pressing needs, but limited English proficiency and no job prospects make food shopping difficult and apartment hunting nearly impossible. Then, the children must be enrolled in school and utilities must be contracted. To finance this new way of life, the individual needs a job.
Most immigrants face major obstacles in obtaining employment.
It is indeed likely that language problems are the strongest single barrier to success for all LEP workers in the United States. The ESL teacher and the trainer coordinate their efforts. VESL has been shown to be an effective approach for teaching English to adult immigrants. Since students can see the connection between their needs and the lessons in English, they are motivated to stay in class and to learn their lessons. Under ideal conditions, VESL students can finish their training as quickly as their English-speaking peers.