Resource bank

Weissenberg J. (2012), Sprachbedarfsermittlung im berufsbezogenen Unterricht Deutsch als Zweitsprache, Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis (Practical guide to language needs assessment in vocational teaching of German as a second language), passage gGmbH, Hamburg.

This booklet gives practical hints and methods to investigate the language needs of students who are preparing for a job.

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Dimpl Ulrike, Feger Claudia (2014), Sprachpaten. Baustein zur interkulturellen Organisationsentwicklung und Unterstützung in der beruflichen oder innerbetrieblichen Weiterbildung.

Brochure describing the tool of sponsorship or godparenthood (consciously not named mentorship) which aims at raising awareness in the company or organisation as to what it means to work in a foreign language and to enable employees to support their second language learning colleagues at the workplace.

The brochure describes the tool in the context of diversity management/intercultural opening, explaining how the programme was planned, delivered and how it can be transferred.

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University of Jyväskylä research project (2011-13) that aimed to find out how immigrants learn Finnish needed at work, and what constitutes sufficient language skills in different situations.

Finnish as a work language

European Council on Refugees and Exiles

Alliance of 106 NGOs across 40 European countries. ECRE aims to protect and advance the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and other forcibly displaced persons in Europe and in Europe’s external policies.

ECRE website

Guidance published in 2012 for adult social care employers in the East of England that summarises some of the key approaches, strategies and learning resources used on the workplace language support programmes for migrants developed through the AIMER project (Achieving the Integration of Migrant Communities and Ethnic Residents from the UK, France and Belgium; 2009-12).

See also Learning resources for care work (AIMER project)

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Murray A. and Lockett M. (1979), Training in the multi-racial foundry, Foundry Trade Journal, Vol. 174, No. 3168.

Article describing workplace language training programme delivered in an iron foundry in England in the late 1970s by the UK's Industrial Language Training service.

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Yates V. and Wilson P. (1987), A real eye-opener: An account of a course in communications for supervisors, The Training Officer, November, pp. 338-340.

Account of an Industrial Language Training course that aimed to help supervisors to support effective communication in a company that employed a large number of ethnic minority workers.

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OPCALIA Propreté (2013), Un nouveau dispositif pour l’autonomie et l'efficacité au travail

Basic skills framework developed by the cleaning sector to support workplace learning.

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Norwegian Agency for Lifelong Learning (part of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research) supporting active citizenship, employability and participation in education. Skills Norway promotes access and participation in formal, non-formal and informal adult education through research, basic skills, integration, career guidance and programmes and subsidies.

Skills Norway acts as the secretariat for the Nordic Network for Adult Learning (Nordisk Nätverk för Vuxnas Lärande, NVL).
Skills Norway was previously called Vox.

Skills Norway

Kraeva I. A. (ed.) (2014), Preparing for the Olympics on the languages and cultures of CIS*, VPO Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow.
*Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly the USSR)
Experience of Moscow State Linguistic University relating to development of training and methodological support of teaching and learning of languages ​​of the Commonwealth, aiming at cross-cultural communicative competence.
Includes sections in Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Romanian / Moldovan, Russian, Tajik, Uzbek, and Ukrainian.

Moscow State Linguistic University (2014), Russian language, history, and legislative framework: Teaching aid for migrant workers and teachers.Moscow: Moscow State Linguistic University.
Textbook for migrant workers and teachers.

Сборник_олимпиады_сигнал_1.pdf

Учебное пособие для трудовых мигрантов и преподавателей.pdf