Workplace Language Teaching and the Intercultural Construction of Ideologies of Competence.

Katz, Mira-Lisa

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ERIC Number: EJ614891

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Workplace Language Teaching and the Intercultural Construction of Ideologies of Competence.

Katz, Mira-Lisa

Canadian Modern Language Review, v57 n1 p144-72 Sep 2000

Describes workplace literacy programs serving immigrants at Cableco, a cable manufacturing plant in California serving the electronics industry in Silicon valley. A workplace literacy lesson, employees responses to it, and an interview with the manufacturing manager demonstrate some of the dangers of conceiving of language as a discrete workplace skill. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Immigrants, Intercultural Communication, Interviews, Literacy Education, Power Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Vocational English (Second Language), Workplace Literacy

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Languages and Work.