Language support in “educationally disadvantaged” workplaces

Coverbild: BWP 6/2016
Autor/in
Ausgabe/Jahr (Jahrgang) 6/2016 (45)
Seite(n) 40-43
Sprachen
    englisch

This article presents the results of a cooperative project of several years’ duration which aimed to implement workplace-related basic educational provision in companies in Hamburg. Following an explanation of the specific characteristics of “work language” in unskilled tasks, the language support approaches piloted are described and illustrated on the basis of examples.