[NIFL-WORKPLACE:670] bilingual workplace handbooks

From: Donna Brian (djgbrian@utk.edu)
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A request came in through the Workforce Education Special Collection for 
links to bilingual workplace handbooks.  I've copied the request below. Do 
any of you have resources to suggest?  You can reply to the list or to me 
personally and I will forward to the person who made the request.  Of 
course, if you have knowledge of good resources like this, I'd like to know 
about them for the Workforce collection too.  Thanks!

Donna JG Brian
Coordinator/Developer LINCS Workforce Education Special Collection at
http://worklink.coe.utk.edu/
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
600 Henley Street, Suite 312
Knoxville, TN 37996-4135

865-974-3420 (desk phone)        FAX 865-974-3857
djgbrian@utk.edu

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>Hello!
> >         I have been unsuccessfully searching the Internet for some
>existing
> >samples of occupation-specific bilingual workplace handbooks.  I have only
> >heard of the general concept, with successful pilot results, but have never
> >seen one.  Why recreate the wheel?  These books would be used by limited
> >English-speaking workers on-the-job.  I imagine they would have pictures
> >showing their duties, along with the matching bilingual descriptions;
> >translations of industry phrases and tools; and translations of helpful
> >communication phrases like, "I don't understand", "I need help", "Can you
> >show me how to do this?"  et cetera.  Do you know of any prototype?  I
>would
> >appreciate any help you can give.  Thank you!
> >



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