Publisher's Synopsis
This guide provides an outline of 23 of the modern foreign language vocational and applied examination schemes and course options that are currently available in the UK. It contains a wide range of qualifications which are open to language learners from the age of 14 through to business people seeking professional qualifications.;The guide gives up-to-date information on the National Languages Standards (NLS) and their relationship to the vocational language qualifications listed. This includes full details of the awarding bodies offering NLS units as part of (G)NVQs and (G)SVQs or as free-standing units. Other qualifications listed range from learning a specific language skill, like telephoning, to taking an advanced diploma in Business Studies which has an applied language component.;Each examination has its own separately numbered entry and is listed under the name of the awarding body. Each entry is catagorized according to which languages are offered, the aims of the qualification, levels of difficulty, age range, what options are available, vocational element, relationship to the NLS, type of assessment, registration details, fees and links with Europe. The names and addresses of the awarding bodies as well as a range of useful information on business and vocational language issues and suggestions for further reading are included in the appendices. Where is has been possible to obtain from the awarding bodies recent examination statistics on examination entries, these have also been included.
