English Language Learning, Job Skills Development, and Welfare-to-Work Services in Immigrant Communities.

This study examines Vocational ESL programs that can assist English-language learners participating in welfare-to-work programs obtain language proficiency and job skills. The study finds that a lack of referrals from county agencies and structural discrepancies between VESL programs resulted in few...

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Publicado en:	Social Development Issues Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 46 - 60
Autores principales:	Chow, Julian Chun-Chung, Vu, Catherine M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Lyceum Books, Inc. 2011
Materias:	Immigrants English as a foreign language Foreign workers Language & culture Social conditions of immigrants Employment of welfare recipients United States
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