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The author surveyed 150 officers in ten departments of the national police force in Egypt in order to assess their needs when using English on the job. The survey showed that, to some extent, the need for English is determined by the specialized department in which an officer works. However, there are enough general needs to make it feasible to propose a common core course for all police officers, regardless of specialization. The author first describes the particular needs of officers in several departments and then offers suggestions for a possible syllabus for a common core course.

One of the major problems for students reading articles in medical journals is distinguishing objective statements of accepted fact from author-marked observations of opinion, hypothesis, or recommendation. In an attempt to determine how, why, and where the subjective element is introduced in the main categories of articles in medical journals, a selection of papers from the British Medical Journal was studied. An examination revealed that author's comment is expressed by verbal and nonverbal modals and by a wide range of attitudinal markers. The incidence of these varies from one category of article to another, editorials being more author-marked throughout, while clinical case notes and research papers contain sharp differences between the objective recounting of the methods and results sections and the more subjective discussion or comment sections. It is recommended that the frequent occurrence of expressions of emphasis, advice, and evaluation should be reflected in the production of more relevant materials for students of English for medical sciences.

The following is a description of a work setting laboratory (WSL) that could, in some form, be developed as one component of a pre-employment program. The description outlined here results from a request by the staff of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Bataan, the Philippines, for work-related basic skills activities. This paper is intended as a starting point for further discussion and planning and not, by any means, as a finished product ready for implementation. The article discusses some ideas about basic skills as they relate to refugee training, the rationale for a WSL, how a WSL relates to the rest of the curriculum, the major components of a WSL, some specific blueprints for WSLs, and barriers that may be encountered in setting up a WSL.

This article is a case history of the development of a test package to be used in identifying the aptitudes, competencies, and remedial services required by prospective enrollees in a machine shop training program. Three community college districts, working as a consortium on a project entitled the Competency-Based Vocational Education Assessment Project (CBVEAP), identified the minimum competencies for enrollment in machine shop training and developed test instruments to help predict successful completion of the training and subsequent employment. The consortium researched, developed, and field tested a written test and a listening test. The results were computer analyzed and revised tests were produced. This article lists the competencies required at the time of enrollment in machine shop training and provides samples of the CBVEAP Machine Shop Written and Listening Tests. Also included are samples of two additional assessment tests, addressing manual dexterity and spoken English proficiency, which may be used to augment the CBVEAP tests.