我们做了一件好事：美国职业ESL的兴起、衰落和未来

IF 1.5 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Adult Education Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI:10.1177/07417136231168381

Katherine Hardin

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摘要

职业英语作为第二语言（VESL）是一种成人语言教育形式，在为学习者准备特定职业的背景下教授交际技能。尽管这些课程对成人语言学习者有教学和后勤方面的好处，但在今天，这种课程并不常见。这篇文献综述通过语料库研究追溯了VESL在美国的出现和消失。然后通过分析第二语言习得研究和与成人教育相关的政策来解释这些趋势。研究发现，VESL仍然是一种很有前途的方法，但由于20世纪90年代的福利和劳动力政策改革而失宠。最后，它论证了VESL在当今的持续相关性，以及成人教育工作者需要警惕政策对其项目的意外影响。

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We Had a Good Thing Going: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Vocational ESL in the United States

Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) is a form of adult language education that teaches communicative skills in the context of preparing learners for a particular vocation. Despite their pedagogical and logistical benefits for adult language learners, such programs are uncommon today. This literature review traces the emergence and disappearance of VESL in the United States through a corpus study. It then explains these trends by analyzing second language acquisition research and policies related to adult education. It finds that VESL remains a promising approach that fell out of favor due to welfare and workforce policy reforms in the 1990s. It concludes by arguing for the continued relevance of VESL today and the need for adult educators to be vigilant of unintended policy impacts on their programs.

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Adult Education Quarterly EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ) is a scholarly refereed journal committed to advancing the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education. The journal strives to be inclusive in scope, addressing topics and issues of significance to scholars and practitioners concerned with diverse aspects of adult and continuing education. AEQ publishes research employing a variety of methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry as well as articles that address theoretical and philosophical issues pertinent to adult and continuing education.