Workplace Essential Skills in Policy and Practice: A Canadian Perspective

Vries, Erik de

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“…A necessary next step is to conduct a needs analysis to gauge the perspectives of other health professionals charged with different daily communicative tasks (e.g., doctors), with the long-term goal of enhancing workplace-specific L2 training. The "Essential Skills" inventory developed by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada may be a useful starting point in this regard (de Vries, 2009). Finally, the study investigated nurses' language needs when serving patients in their L2 with a focus on English or French, Canada's official languages.…”

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Identifying Second Language Speech Tasks and Ability Levels for Successful Nurse Oral Interaction with Patients in a Linguistic Minority Setting: An Instrument Development Project

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Laurier

Turner

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Health Communication

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One of the most demanding situations for members of linguistic minorities is a conversation between a health professional and a patient, a situation that frequently arises for linguistic minority groups in North America, Europe, and elsewhere. The present study reports on the construction of an oral interaction scale for nurses serving linguistic minorities in their second language (L2). A mixed methods approach was used to identify and validate a set of speech activities relating to nurse interactions with patients and to derive the L2 ability required to carry out those tasks. The research included an extensive literature review, the development of an initial list of speech tasks, and validation of this list with a nurse focus group. The retained speech tasks were then developed into a questionnaire and administered to 133 Quebec nurses who assessed each speech task for difficulty in an L2 context. Results were submitted to Rasch analysis and calibrated with reference to the Canadian Language Benchmarks, and the constructs underlying the speech tasks were identified through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Results showed that speech tasks dealing with emotional aspects of caregiving and conveying health-specific information were reported as being the most demanding in terms of L2 ability, and the most strongly associated with L2 ability required for nurse-patient interactions. Implications are discussed with respect to the development and use of assessment instruments to facilitate L2 workplace training for health care professionals.

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Identifying Second Language Speech Tasks and Ability Levels for Successful Nurse Oral Interaction with Patients in a Linguistic Minority Setting: An Instrument Development Project

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Laurier

Turner

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Health Communication

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“…competencies along a continuous scale ranging from 0 to 500, where scores increase along with greater proficiency (de Vries 2009).…”

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Are large surveys of adult literacy skills as comparable over time as we think?

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2020

Large-scale Assess Educ

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The concept of literacy, as defined in this article, is broader than just being able to read or write. Specifically, literacy skills here refers to the "the ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential" (OECD 2013, p. 20). Indeed, as part of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in collaboration with many experts, has refined the measurement of adult literacy skills by conceptualizing

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La déconstruction et reconstruction sociale de la demande dite d’alphabétisation

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2014

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La demande de développement des compétences de base de la population adulte est un fait relativement récent dans les pays industriels avancés. Toutefois cette demande n’est pas une demande d’alphabétisation mais d’actualisation de compétences déjà maitrisées mais peu pratiquées par la suite et en plus devant maintenant être mobilisées dans un environnement à haute intensité technologique. Cette perspective nouvelle exige de revoir les dispositifs et pratiques d’expression de cette demande et de reconnaitre tant l’intimité de tels apprentissages que leur pertinence socio-économique. On peut alors mieux saisir tant la pertinence individuelle que la légitimité sociale de ce droit nouveau des citoyens de la modernité avancée à l’actualisation de leurs compétences de base.

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Workplace Essential Skills in Policy and Practice: A Canadian Perspective

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Identifying Second Language Speech Tasks and Ability Levels for Successful Nurse Oral Interaction with Patients in a Linguistic Minority Setting: An Instrument Development Project

Identifying Second Language Speech Tasks and Ability Levels for Successful Nurse Oral Interaction with Patients in a Linguistic Minority Setting: An Instrument Development Project

Are large surveys of adult literacy skills as comparable over time as we think?

La déconstruction et reconstruction sociale de la demande dite d’alphabétisation

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