Towards the Development of a Bilingual Workforce: The DuocUC Experience in Chile
The largest technical training center and professional institute in Chile, Departamento Universitario Obrero Campesino (DuocUC) is the country's equivalent of the "community college" in the U.S.] a higher education institution committed to workplace and professional training. It also happens to be Chile's leading higher education institution for English as a foreign language training. This panel will discuss the successful collaboration put in place by DuocUC working with Seminarium Certificacion, the chief language certification institution in Chile and Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J.. In addition to presenting an outline of the DuocUC EFL curriculum and the evaluation techniques being employed, the panel will offer a description of the Chilean public policy initiatives that are serving as a direct catalyst for the development of a bilingual workforce in Chile.
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