General education (GenEd). The most common objective was for general language
proficiency development - encoded in the meta-analysis as 'GenEd'. This goal corresponds
approximately to the use of four-skills texts, and occurred in all of the types of programs
sampled in the survey.
Staff Development (StaffDev). Company programs differ from language schools or
colleges in that they may aim to increase the potential for individual employees to work in
a wide variety of job assignments. One manifestation of this strategy is to provide extensive
language instruction to employees even without specific plans to post them overseas or give
them job assignments requiring proficiency in English. This type of objective was coded
'StaffDev' in the meta-analysis, for it identifies the policy of the company program to create