ACCESSING LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS: HOW DO ETHNIC MINORITIES NAVIGATE THE SYSTEM?

The decision to seek Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) can be challenging for older adults and family members. These challenges can be greater for members of certain ethnic/cultural minority communities who are not fluent in English. Our study examines the ways in which older adults in limited English-speaking communities (Spanish / Mandarin Chinese) navigate the use of LTSS. The findings will be used to evaluate disparities in service perception and access experienced by these populations. Our research examines the ways in which information is shared among community members and how they identify trusted sources of information. Ultimately, we wish to examine how these social networks and trusted neighborhood institutions do, or do not, connect older adults in need to the formal LTSS system. We use a modeling technique called Social Interaction Modeling (SIM), which allows for the inclusion of both conceptual and data based elements, to frame this process.

CREATING NEW MODELS FOR AGING IN PLACE: DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AND THE NAVIGATION OF LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS

There is a growing interest among aging services providers to better understand the pathways through which older adults and their caregivers navigate LTSS. Although there have been attempts at modeling this process they are often dependent on the quality of existing data, which can result in models which are incomplete and study samples that homogenize diverse older adult populations. These models face two challenges – 1) the data may not include information about important elements of the LTSS navigation process, and 2) the actions of ethnic/cultural sub-groups may not be captured. This study uses a conceptual method called Social Interaction Modeling (SIM) to examine how older adults in two limited English-speaking communities (Spanish / Mandarin Chinese) navigate the use of LTSS and to evaluate disparities in service access. The findings will help to build a more comprehensive model which looks at service navigation among all older adults in Philadelphia.

QA-Frame as Media in Learning “Selling and Buying” E xpressions of Traders in Kawasan Wisata Kota Lama Semarang

The background of this research is based on phenomenon that traders’ of Kawasan Wisata Kota Lama Semarang in speaking needs to be improved. Some of them were still lazy to speak English because they do not have enough idea of what to speak. QA-Frame is a speaking learning media that contains selling and buying expressions with the meaning. The purpose of this research can be stated as follow: (1) To find out how is the implementation of QA-Frame as learning media for traders in Kawasan Wisata Kota Lama Semarang. (2) To find out what are the problems faced by traders through QA-Frame as media in Kawasan Wisata Kota Lama Semarang.This research is qualitative method. The subject of this research was traders in Kawasan Wisata Kota Lama Semarang. The researchers took three traders for our sample. They are Mr. Nanang; Mr. Riki; and Mrs. Desi. They were traders in Pasar Klitikan. In collecting the data, the researchers used observation and interview. The result of this research showed thatthe implementation of QA-Frame media accepted for the traders to improve their selling and buying expression. In the other hand, the implementation of QA-Frame media have some problems, such as: possessed limited English speaking skill, the traders only knew some basic vocabulary about the price, the small traders did not “have the necessary vocabulary to give directions to tourists”, the traders cant not memorization and repetition, production and communicationstrategies to process the language input from various sources for their spoken output, the traders have limited grammatical, sociolinguistic and discourse competence.

Teacher’s Study Guide for Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World is a film directed by Gary Delgado. It explores how the Community Transformational Organizing Strategy (CTOS) of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), a community-based labor organization in Oakland, California, enables low-wage, limited-English-speaking, immigrant women workers to redefine the meaning of leadership and to deepen our society’s capacity for democracy. AIWA has been an inspiration to hundreds of workers in the garment, electronics, restaurant, nail care, and home care industries of the Bay Area, and the organization’s CTOS method has been an influential model for many activist organizations. The film features testimony from rank-and-file workers active in AIWA as well as from present and former staff members speaking about the organization’s history of education, organization, and mobilization. This guide is designed to help teachers incorporate Becoming Ourselves into college courses in ethnic studies, women’s studies, sociology, and politics. It is meant to promote interactive, student-centered engagement so that the film becomes a learning tool and not merely a spectacle.

Improving NESB Students’ Learning in Communication Through Simulating Social Media: An Australian Case Study

Australian universities are mindful of graduating students who are prepared for the workforce. A growing trend in organisational communication is the use of digital/electronic media to communicate with stakeholders, and many universities are now adopting pedagogy that simulates professional use of social media.International students who come from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB) and are new to Australian university study can often struggle with understanding information that is delivered verbally, particularly when delivered under the traditional lecture/tutorial or didactic approach. The use of online communication in the curriculum can improve employability skills and heighten comprehension for NESB students.This paper examines results by NESB students mainly from Chinese universities studying through a collaborative articulated pathway program who have completed the core communication unit between 2010 and 2012. The majority of these students have come from limited English-speaking environments. The paper analyses their results and uses contemporary literature to form conclusions on cognitive capabilities for the NESB cohort when studying this introductory unit on-campus.The student results and the literature analysed demonstrates that NESB students perform better when comprehending and consolidating knowledge delivered through interactivity involving digital communication, primarily e-text-based content that simulates social media. It concludes that electronic communication based on social media model can heighten NESB student engagement and improve employability.