ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 showed how many different research options can be generated from a single context, and suggested the value of focusing on a context that might be a future workplace. Benchmark statement
The English Language benchmark document is at pains to point out the strong links that can be made between the subject and aspects of work environments:
Language issues are present in every workplace and can be meaningfully studied towards an outcome beneficial to employers as well as to the students themselves and their programmes.
The document also identifies particular skills developed by English Language courses, and links these with examples of occupational areas:
English Language provides a grounding for careers requiring:
advanced written and spoken communication skills, such as management, the media, publishing;
skills in processing information, such as journalism, the law;
subject-specific knowledge, such as teaching, language therapy, forensic linguistics.
