ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on methodological approaches in the Language in Trades Education (LATTE) project. It provides the reader with an overview of the methodology and decisions made during the project that affected the qualitative and quantitative data gathering and analysis. The chapter deals with the lexical, discourse, and visual data for the study and presents a discussion and critique of key studies from the Language and Trades Education research project in terms of methodology. It describes the specialised language of a number of fields of vocational education, to investigate how students acquire this language, and to suggest ways that acquisition of the language can be promoted. A major piece of work in the LATTE project included engaging with Pasifika education through the translation of the technical word lists into Tongan, a language in the Pacific, to support learners who are learning a trade in English in Tonga or in an English-speaking country.
