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Preparing co-ordinate bilinguals to manage in and meet the demands of the current day workplace.
Assisting employees to make the transition to “learning in and through” English relatively easy. The co-ordinate bilingual copes because of COPE, i.e. COgnition and Proficiency (listening, speaking, reading, writing) in English. |
Prof.Jan Haakemulder
ExecutiveDirector,
Educational& Cultural Task Forces,
UNESCO,Paris
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We use ELSA as a pre-test to determine the entry level of the candidate, as well asa post-test to confirm progress and exit level. Formative and Summative assessment slots in with main stream trainingevaluations. |
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The realities of the workplace
The lingua franca of commerce and industry in the S.A. is English. It follows that a poor command of English and/or critical deficiencies in basic skills makes it impossible for the transferee to take written instruction, let alone for the transferee to upgrade his/her skills.
Trainability in an English language environment and English literacy skills level go hand in hand. |
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Quality assurance & certification
Where Kaleidoprax is required to certify and award learner’s NQF credits, learning delivery will have to meet the ETQA requirements of the constituent SETA.  |
Alignment to NQF unitstandards
The learning programme is aligned to ABET 1-4 registered unit standards. Learners are guided to collect evidence of competence in their portfolios, which will be assessed as per the NQF quality assurance system. We are aiming to award credits as short courses attended, and will apply for programme approval during the first quarter of 2011. |
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Literate, but not functionally literate: having limited reading and writing skills but not enough to cope with everyday tasks (equivalent to three years of formal schooling). Here too regression plays a role, even where the employee claims to have passed matric.
This employee enters Hands-On by slotting in at the appropriate level.
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Functionally literate: having the reading and writing skills necessary for everyday living, including work.
Theoretically a skills level equivalent to eight years of formal schooling.
Most employees in this category fall beyond the scope of the Hands-On programme and do not need this literacy skills training.
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Illiterate: unable to read and write. In most cases this person has had no schooling.
Employees falling into this category will require a course in Basic Literacy in their mother tongue.
Our Literati training programme caters for this need.
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Marginally literate: able to write his name and read and write few basic words. In most cases this person has had less than 8 years formal education and has lost his skills (or regressed) due to disuse.
Employees in this category require a basic literacy course in English, possibly at an accelerated pace.
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A transferee is a person who, in order to make a living, has to transfer daily from his/her natural language environment (and culture) to a different language environment (and culture) and is assumed/expected to cope like a mother-tongue user.
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Contact sessions facilitated by a trained facilitator / assessor comprising of small-group work, discussions, simulations and case studies, role-play, problem solving and reading and written assignments.
Learners are expected to apply newly acquired skills in the workplace and bring back their experience to the contact session.
Facilitators may be appointed in a learning programme as a student practitioner. The Induction Programme in the use of the KPrax learning material, combined with the intensive quality management programme, will be sufficient in guiding the facilitator in excellent practice.
Enrolment in the RPL programme for the Diploma in ABET Practice level 5, will enable award of credits on a modular basis until completion by the end of two years. The presentation of evidence is guided in the RPL instructions, and coordinates with the ABET programme roll-out. The Moderator in the ABET programme will be the Mentor to the student-facilitator.
The Licensed facilitator will complete the 8-day KPrax Induction programme. Included in the Induction programme is the Assessor training course aligned to unit standard 115753 to be registered as assessor with ETDPSETA.
The KPrax compliance certificate for ABET Facilitators will be awarded and all KPrax Facilitators are registered on a central database.
In-house training: You will need:
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Resourcesprovided
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Target audience A transferee is a person who, in order to make a living, has to transfer daily from his/her natural language environment (and culture) to a different language environment (and culture) and is assumed/ expected to cope like a mother-tongue user. In South Africa more than 90% of the workers transfer to an English language environment daily. Some find the transition easy, some manage somehow but the vast majority don’t cope at all. |
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In compiling the learning programme, we have assumed that most, if not all, the delegates –
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