Return-Path: <ndavies@user1.channel1.com> Received: from user1.channel1.com (user1.channel1.com [199.1.13.9]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29746 for <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 17:33:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from remote36.channel1.com (remote36.channel1.com [204.96.32.36]) by user1.channel1.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA26709 for <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 17:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 17:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199704132135.RAA26709@user1.channel1.com> X-Sender: ndavies@pop.channel1.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov From: Nancy Davies <ndavies@user1.channel1.com> Subject: Re: workplace literacy Status: RO Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 30 At 01:19 PM 4/11/97 -0400, you wrote: >Hello list, > >I'm an ESL teacher and need lesson plans to teach workplace english >to motel housekeepers needing English to keep their jobs. I need >lessons/information/links on communicating with guests and superviors. > >thank you, Sandia Hi, Sandia and all, Prentice Hall publishes a book called Be Our Guest, Basic English for Hotel Staff (Donald Adamson, 1992). I am using it for hotel workers in Boston -- but be aware the course is paid for by the hotels. In other words, the book is not designed in any way to improve working conditions for the hotel workers, so I am trying to implement alongside the (required) text some Friere-cum-Silja Kallenbach mind-set on my part. It did not take long for me to find out that the hotel workers in my class feel they are discriminated against and abused by supervisors who are intolerant of their native language use in particular, and of them as foreigners in general. So what to do? For the time being, establish a safe space in which to discuss issues. I'd like to hear from anybody who has an ongoing relevant ESL project. Nancy Davies > > > > Nance
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